(This is really pretty deeply technical and I’m not going into a long explanation about it. If you understand what… Read more Prevent other WinXP machines from becoming Master Browser

PC Magazine reports in this article that the Bagel worm exploits the vulnerability talked about in Microsoft’s MS03-040 update without… Read more “Bagel” worm can infect you without an attachment

Microsoft has made Release Candidate 1 of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 available for general download from their Windows… Read more WinXP SP2, RC1 available

SDSU says they were compromised and the personal data of all 178,000 students and alumni may have been compromised. Read… Read more San Diego State Private Data Theft

No, Broadband day. After waiting 7 years, I finally got broadband. Yeah, believe it or not, in Silicon Valley there’re… Read more It’s B-day!

CERT has released advisory TA04-078A which discusses several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. I’ve seen quite a few update notices from the… Read more OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Information Week has this article which discusses one of my main concerns about offshoring — what about the security of… Read more Offshore data security/data privacy

I’ve been on this quest for quite a while now and I’ve just finished testing out the new release of… Read more In search of the perfect IMAP email client

For all the budding Linux sysadmins, http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/SAG/.

Right now there are a total of 5 different security newsletters from Microsoft. Two for home users and three for… Read more Microsoft security newsletters