Protecting MP from Podcasts

Here's another from Brian Livingston

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/050811/

We Are the Web

The Netscape IPO wasn't really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people.

Read the full story By Kevin Kelly in Wired 13.08

"This is absolutely the best article ever written about the Internet." says Joseph Green.

VERITAS Backup Exec Uses Hard-Coded Authentication Credentials

An attacker with knowledge of these credentials and access to the Remote Agent may be able to retrieve arbitrary files from a vulnerable system. The Remote Agent runs with SYSTEM privileges.

Exploit code, including the credentials, is publicly available. US-CERT has also seen reports of increased scanning activity on port 10000/tcp. This increase may be caused by attempts to locate vulnerable systems.

US-CERT is tracking this vulnerability as VU#378957.

Please note that VERITAS has recently merged with Symantec.

Read the full US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-224A

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA05-221A -- Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA05-221A -- Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

More good news for us Windows users. I think that there might be two or three left.

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies and Games, Reviews and Previews

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies and Games, Reviews and Previews

My FAVORITE movie review site with the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) a close second. I've found so many great movies that I had never heard of. Plus it's interesting to see what they have to say about movies from your younger years. "Hey, it wasn't THAT bad!"

Ligers Make a "Dynamite" Leap Into the Limelight

It's half lion, half tiger, and completely real. Now thanks to a cameo in the 2004 cult movie Napoleon Dynamite, the liger has leaped into the limelight, prompting fans to ask, What are they really like?

The faintly striped, shaggy-maned creatures are the offspring of male lions and female tigers, which gives them the ability to both roar like lions and chuff like tigers—a supposedly affectionate sound that falls somewhere between a purr and a raspberry.

Read the full story by Maryann Mott