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Archive for July, 2009

In a rare move, Microsoft on Friday said it would be releasing security updates on Tuesday–outside of its monthly patch cycle–for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer… – Full Article on CNET

http://www.milkcarton.be/apps/lazypoken

Lazy poken allows you to auto open your poken account on your browser upon plugging in your poken to the usb port.

Do you Poken? Ever wonder when the business card will disappear from everyday use? This device uses a proprietary Radio Frequency Identifier to interchange a secure key to information privately just like a secure business card.  Embedded in your profile can be any social networking site connections as well as any chat, email, phone,or website interchange.

There’s a place to link to your blog, facebook, twitter and much more. If you’re a social networker, it’s a hip new way to “High 4” your information to a new contact as well as get their contact info while saving a tree.

Simply touch the palms of the pokens together and they start flashing green, you’ve transferred the information.

You can keep 64 contacts before you have to download them to the website, so sync up often.

Ask your friends, do you poken?

Microsoft’s strategy is changing in the world of computers. Today it announced that there would be a free stripped-down version of it’s online version of the popular office products available soon.

Wall Street Journal has a great article HERE.

For all you people who have just been browsing and suddenly find your computer infected with junk!
here’s why.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500140

Go here and PLEASE select the fix it and apply it to your computers. the fix it turns off the part of active x that is vulnerable.

Hackers have been exploiting the bug since early June, Microsoft is releasing a patch July 14th

This hole in IE could be more damaging than the one  the conflicker virus exploited.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/340930/Researcher_Says_IE_Bug_Could_Spread_Quickly?taxonomyId=17 .