Looks like this is based on the same kind of flaw reported above. Here’s the Secunia advisory: http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9055. Check out the GreyMagic site for the original report.

Looks like a few of you decided to pick up the SMC wireless router from CompUSA. Glad I could help and I hope it works out.

And, no, I don’t get a commission from CompUSA 🙂

Story’s at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1126751,00.asp. Here’s the deal: they say a compromised system listens for packets of size 55,808. Supposedly there’s another system (systems?) out there that are sending TCP SYN packets to random IP addresses at a speed that will allow them to hit 90% of the Internet’s addresses in 24 hours (!! — that’s gotta be FAST! — there’re a LOT of addresses out there). They don’t know what the compromised systems will do or what kind of information they’ll leak so they can’t say what’s up with this new trojan/virus. You gotta admit, though, this is a weird one!

Read the article. Decide for yourself.

The story’s at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1128152,00.asp. Microsoft said last Friday, I think it was, they were discontinuing development of IE for Mac in light of Apple’s Safari. Maybe this’ll be the last IE update for the Mac?

I’ve been subscribing to this newsletter for probably over a year now and I find something valuable in just about every one of them. This issue gives the steps for optimizing your XP system with Microsoft’s BootVis, a list of free data recovery tools and some interesting statistics on the xecurity of the average broadband user. To read the latest issue go to http://www.winxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=80. There’re links to prior issues as well as subscribe links.

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3291161.

2 USB 2.0 ports rated at 480 Mb/sec (that’s a small “b” for “bits”).

I just checked the CompUSA web site and the deal is still there. See http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=295202&pfp=hpfod#checkstore.

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main.htm.

This site is the project of an English instructor that teaches Business and Technical Writing classes at The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, of all things! It’s not a bad site and seems like Joe Normal could understand and implement most of what he says. Includes topics on controlling mal-ware, securing email and protecting yourself while on the web (which has some pretty obvious things like “don’t download files from sites that you don’t know”).

If you wanna get locked in to ASP, or if you just wanna experiment with ASP.NET, Microsoft has a free tool you can download (1.3 MB) from http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/. It provides drag-and-drop of GUI elements, support for FTP transfer of your project to your ASP.NET-enabled ISP and includes a mini web server so you don’t have to run IIS to develop your app.

Secunia reports that Adobe’s Acrobat Reader V4.x and V5.x allows publishers of PDF documents to execute arbitrary code as the result of a vulnerability on the XPDF specification. See http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9038/ for the description of the Reader exposure and http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9037/ for the XPDF description.

This hasn’t been confirmed on Windows or Mac, just on Linux (so far).