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Susan Bradley, CPA aka Eb · Guest

Kevin's song of the week:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/es$uQDq9EHA.2596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl

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Oh Canada Event!
Just know it's going to be cold, so Les says to pack shorts:
http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2005/01/09/31247.aspx

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This Tuesday is patch Tuesday again
Announcement of Upcoming Release of Malicious Software Removal Tools:
http://msmvps.com/secure/archive/2005/01/06/29992.aspx
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware Public Beta:
http://msmvps.com/secure/archive/2005/01/06/29989.aspx
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Blogs of interest this week:

SBS and Dynamic DNS:
http://blogs.msdn.com/canthe/archive/2005/01/06/348110.aspx

Talk to Bob!:
http://blogs.msdn.com/canthe/archive/2005/01/06/348118.aspx

Stephen Toulouse - Tour around Microsoft's Security Response Center
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34978#34978

The rise of the blog
http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/the_rise_of_the.html

The higher security mindset
http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000775.html

Oops!
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/coursey/archive/2005/01/07/5367.aspx

IE - let's be careful out there
http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2005/01/09/31242.aspx

Gizmodo and Gates - part I
http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/005835.html

Gizmodo and Gates - part II
http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/005840.html

CES wrap up
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/004113.html?wbfrom=rss

Things that happen in Vegas, stay in Vegas
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/004087.html?wbfrom=rss

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Australian police charge students with global Internet scam
Four Sydney high school students have been charged
in connection with a Russian-based Internet scam
that stole people's banking passwords and siphoned
their cash into accounts in eastern Europe, police
said. The four students were promised a cut of the
profits for letting their bank accounts be used for
laundering money stolen from Internet bankers via
a computer virus that dropped a program for secretly
recording passwords, police said.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/10591723.htm
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Trojan disguised as Flash player targets cell phones
An updated variant of the Skulls Trojan horse
comes disguised as a new version of the Macromedia
Flash player to fool users of mobile phones running
the Symbian operating system. Skulls.D disables
applications needed to remove it, drops the Cabir.M
worm onto phones and informs users that they have
been infected by displaying a full-screen flashing
skull, Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus
research at F-Secure (Profile, Products, Articles),
in Helsinki, said Friday in a telephone interview.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/07/HNflashtrojan_1.html
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98799,00.html
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Critical Windows fix on the way
The fixes, which will carry a maximum threat
rating of "critical," will be issued Tuesday,
the company said. Under its two-month-old advance
notification program, Microsoft typically gives
the public early notice of the number of updates
it plans to deliver and of the severity of the
vulnerabilities the updates fix. The only other
detail the software giant revealed Thursday was
that people may have to restart their Windows
systems for the patches to take effect.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5517567.html

IE flaw threat hits the roof
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5517457.html
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=-Extremely-Critical--Flaw-Threatens-Internet-Explorer-Users&story_id=29577
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Phishers catch out Firefox
A security flaw in the increasingly popular Firefox
browser is exposing millions of users to phishing
scams, security experts have warned. Jakob Balle,
security specialist at Secunia Research, said that
the vulnerability in Firefox and Mozilla allows
malicious hackers to execute phishing scams by
spoofing the source URL displayed in the browser's
Download Dialog box.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160352
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5517149.html

Firefox: When is a flaw not a flaw?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5517201.html
Firefox flaw sparks a fiery debate
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39183365,00.htm
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BlackBerry users find devices not so secure
A lawsuit in Toronto has triggered concerns
about the security of the popular BlackBerry
wireless email device. Most Bay St. investment
traders and bankers would say they'd feel
helpless without a Blackberry, a pocket-sized
communication device that allows Internet and
email access and text messaging. But a lawsuit
launched by the CIBC is raising questions
about the devices.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1105113455379_44/
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House homeland security panel to cover cybersecurity
The House Rules Committee referred a cybersecurity
bill to the reorganized Homeland Security Committee,
in a move that partly straightened some tangled
lines of authority in the lower chamber. The Rules
Committee’s decision confirmed the Homeland
Security Committee’s authority over cybersecurity
issues, which congressional sources said had been
left partly unclear in the rule that established
the new committee.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34789-1.html
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GAO calls for security strategy
Congressional auditors say a federal interagency
committee in charge of coordinating the protection
of government facilities needs a strategic plan for
identifying priorities and implementing security
measures, including leveraging technology.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0103/web-facilities-01-07-05.asp
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Agencies back plan to delete old e-mails
Government agencies generally support a proposal
to let federal agencies delete mountains of saved
e-mails that have been marked as having no long-
term value, but some public advocacy groups and
others have expressed concern.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0105/010705tdpm1.htm
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Ensuring wireless security to become easier
Wireless routers these days come packed with
security features, but they can be difficult
to set up. Technology introduced this week at
the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show could make
those problems a thing of the past. Broadcom
Corp. of Irvine Calif. is working with Linksys
and Hewlett-Packard Co. to make Wi-Fi Protected
Access security available at the touch of a
button. The new feature will be called Broadcom
SecureEasySetup and will automatically handle
all the technical issues involved with WPA setup
such as network name, encryption key and WPA pass
phrase.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34748-1.html
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ThinkPads with fingerprint readers now widely available
Instead of relying on long passwords that can be
guessed or forgotten, selected models of IBM Corp.’s
ThinkPad T42s notebooks, aimed at the government
market, are starting to ship with biometric
fingerprint readers, company officials told GCN
Labs this week at the 2005 Consumer Electronics
Show. The notebooks also ship with an embedded
security subsystem to drive even more powerful
security protection.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34749-1.html
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Netizens eye Web-enabled surveillance cams
Blogs and message forums buzzed this week
with the discovery that a pair of simple
Google searches permits access to well
over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras
around the world -- apparently without their
owners' knowledge.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10251
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FBI warns of tsunami email scams
The FBI is warning that fraudsters are using
internet scams in the aftermath of the Asian
tsunami disaster. The agency is warning of
phishing websites claiming to be for relief
charities, and emails offering to find victims
for a fee or requesting that money be deposited
in overseas accounts.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160318
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5514080.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/06/tsunami_relief_attack/
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Microsoft UK fires seven over staff purchase abuse
Exclusive Microsoft UK has sacked seven employees
and called in police following the "alleged abuse
of [its] employee purchase programme". The giant
software company declined to go into details about
incident citing legal reasons but confirmed that
seven people had been dismissed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/06/microsoft_epp/
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Mobile Trojan launches Skulls attack
Mobile users should avoid downloading Skulls.D,
a Trojan that will wreck their handset. A new
variant of the Skulls Trojan horse that affects
Symbian mobile phones has been discovered. F-Secure
reported on Monday that this new version, called
Skulls.D, kills off all system applications in
the same manner as previous variants. But rather
than turning individual application icons into
skulls, Skulls.D tells users they have been
infected by displaying a full-screen flashing skull.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39183213,00.htm
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Sims 2 hacks spread like viruses
Players of Electronic Arts' enormously popular
simulated life game are complaining that their
artfully-crafted homes and mansions are beginning
to resemble the Twilight Zone, thanks to an artifact
of the game's design that causes hacks to spread
like viruses from user to unwitting user. Entire
neighborhoods of Sims are being mysteriously
graced with eternal youth, while some characters
are finding all their needs fulfilled by a single
shot of magic espresso.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10232
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Microsoft offers free virus-removal, anti-spyware programs
Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software
is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is
offering a free security program to remove the
most dangerous infections from computers. The
program, with monthly updates, is a step toward
plans by Microsoft to sell full-blown antivirus
software later this year.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10233
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5514899.html
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34746-1.html
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98783,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/wormsviruses/2005-01-06-ms-antivirus_x.htm
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Mozilla vulnerabilities identified
Users of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers and
the Thunderbird e-mail client may be vulnerable
to flaws that could allow an attacker to spy on
or take over a system, according to security
researchers.
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98757,00.html

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Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP] · Guest

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