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Entries for December, 2008

Critical Security Vulnerability Discovered in Internet Explorer…

On November 11th 2008 Microsoft released an advisory (MS08-068) detailing a vulnerability present in all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer – including beta versions of IE8. The exploitation technique is referred to as "SMB Reflection". There have been widespread reports of active exploitation of this vulnerability via Internet Explorer – including reports that the [...]

What is Web 2.0???

You may have heard the term "Web 2.0" in the media recently. The term seems to suggest a new or updated version of the World Wide Web, however the term does not refer to any technical specifications at all.

As Tim O’Reiley suggests, it refers to changes in the ways people use the World [...]

Out of Office when you are out of the office.

As you may be aware, Outlook has an "Out of Office" feature that can be configured when you are away from your PC to respond automatically to incoming messages with a predefined message letting the sender know you are unavailable. This works great if you remember to do it when you are in front of [...]