I met Amber Naslund at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed event in Columbus, Ohio in September this year. We shared many a good chat about business and how social media impacts our ability to do things in a modern day world. Today she has a post which I think matters a lot, particularly in today's economic climate. Her post talks about how we need to follow through with … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2008
ANZ Bank withdraws services over the weekend
I ve been a client of the ANZ Bank for many years now, and went to check my bank balance today and got the message below after I logged in. Now this does not affect me as I don t have any International Services, but I ve got to wonder just how badly the bank is worried about the current economic climate to suspend services to clients without notice … [Read more...]
Trend Micro Detection of MS08-067
Just got this from Trend they are already detecting known worms that exploit systems not patched with MS08-067 that was released less than 12 hours ago by Microsoft. http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/grayware/ve_graywareDetails.asp?GNAME=TSPY_GIMMIV.A is the first one out of the blocks. I ve got more background technical info on this and I ve found that Trends WFBS blocks IE … [Read more...]
Patch NOW before it s too late!
Sounds scary right well yes it is and it can be. Microsoft have overnight released an out of band patch which they do only in severe circumstances (like KNOWN exploits circulating in the wild). Technical details are here Long story short if you run Windows, then you ARE affected by this. Make sure your systems are patched with this to ensure you can minimise the … [Read more...]
My Skype Account has been hacked!
Just on 12 hours ago, Skype on my PC told me that I needed to re-enter my password as it had been changed and the skype client needed to reauthenticate. Interesting I thought as I had not changed my password. I rekeyed my password and it said it was incorrect. I then went to Skype website to attempt a password recovery, I entered my userid and my email address to begin the … [Read more...]