Had a bit of a problem to get my Motorola Q9 phone to work with Vista. It should have been easy, to go online, but these things never are. Here’s how I got it working. Set the phone to USB Modem Start – Settings – Connections –USB Device Type – Modem. Download the Motorola USB [...]
Microsoft doesn’t send out of band patches (that’s patches not in the monthly patch Tuesday batch release) and a webcast on an alert very often, so it’s worth paying attention when they do. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx The patch requires a reboot, so be warned planning needs to be in any workplace for the outages. Forefront and the [...]
It’s back on again! Sydney’s on, off, on-again security con is back on. $60 dollars covers the two day entry fee, it’s being held at UTS, so easy enough to get to for Sydney-siders. Good line up of speakers, including the always entertaining Christian Heinrich, doing his Google hacking talk. http://www.ruxcon.org.au/ Support your local SecCon [...]
Huge surprise that I’d be using Microsoft products to talk about other Microsoft products. Or maybe not. Mucking around with the Word 2007 Blog post template, out of that Sunday evening curiosity phase and not wanting to iron shirts or think about the working week. Anyway, Fyodor, of Nmap fame has a book out on [...]
Building security for the edge was, in the good old days, simple. You wack in a firewall, block everything and then pretend to look at the logs. Job done, time to play Doom. Now, there the edge is pretty much every machine and almost every device. Wireless devices (801.11, Bluetooth, IR and now usb/pci Net [...]
