December 2011 – CyberCom, Inc

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December 30, 2011/in tweets

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Massive Microsoft Security Mess – Get yours patched immediately

December 30, 2011/in Neat Tech & News, Security Alerts

Straight from Microsoft’s website comes a stern warning about a security hole that apparently can happen by simply going to a bad website. Make sure your Windows system is promptly updated, like now!

The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted web request to the target site. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take any action in the context of an existing account on the ASP.NET site, including executing arbitrary commands

via technet.microsoft.com

Google+ gets more features to compete with Facebook

December 19, 2011/in Neat Tech & News

Google plus is offering a collection of new features to improve the experience. Those include:

“Volume” controls for who you follow. Very neat idea here in that you can fine tune how “loud”, i.e. prominently, to feature some of your friends over others. Will be nice to see how this works in practice, though it sounds good. I’ve got some chatterboxes who I would like to turn down yet other far less frequent friends that I don’t want to miss
Google+ Pages improvements that allow you to have page managers, better notifications, and improved user engagement reporting
Nicer looking notifications

Take a look and let me know what you think!