Keep your e-mail account safe from hackers
Tips from Kim Komando of CyberSpeak on keeping your e-mail safe from hackers.
Prizes for Live Search regulars
Under a scheme called Search Perks users will get points for every keyword search they carry out via Microsoft's Live Search. Points can then be redeemed for prizes such as music downloads, airmiles and books.
It's sometimes hard to tell where advertising stops and bribery begins.
Cracking One Billion Passwords per Second
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. released a new version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery. The new release reaches the recovery speed of one billion passwords per second by employing several NVIDIA video accelerators.
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can recover a variety of system passwords such as NTLM and startup passwords, crack MD5 hashes, unlock password-protected documents created by Microsoft Office 97-2007, PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat, as well as PGP and UNIX and Oracle user passwords.
Microsoft's Hotmail hybrid struggles to life
The long-awaited merger of Microsoft "classic" and "full" Hotmail services is off a and staggering.
Hotmail users, those who can get the new version, are complaining of confusing layouts, cumbersome features, and calling for a return to the old version of Microsoft's email service.
Share Microsoft Outlook Calendars and Other Folders in Three Steps
3StepShare allows users to share their Outlook folders without Microsoft Exchange or expensive hardware.
Can you figure out this weird Exchange quirk?
(Same message, but this time sent through our basic SMTP server)
Hi, David here. We're experiencing a very weird, Exchange-related quirk and I'm hoping one or more of you Exchange wizards out there will know what's going on.
We send most of these news postings into OutlookPower's content management system via email. We've been doing this for years, with no problem. However, when we send in a news posting through our hosted Exchange server, the posting tends to include lots of weird equal-sign-space sequences, (like th= s) as you can see in this test posting to WebSpherePower.
Here's what we know. First, we're sending the postings in Plain Text, so it's not an RTF or HTML issue. When we send the posting into the CMS using a simple SMTP server, we don't have any problems. But when we send the posting into the CMS using Exchange, we do.
At first, we thought it was Outlook (we were using Outlook 2003). So we tried it in Outlook 2007. Same problem. I thought it was something in how we'd set up Outlook to talk to Exchange, but that's not the case. Our hosting provider had the idea that we should try submitting the posts through Outlook Web Access (for Exchange 2007). That removes both Outlook and our connection from Outlook to Exchange from the variable mix. And the problem persists.
And we also know it's not our CMS, because the CMS merely downloads email from a (non-Exchange) SMTP server and since it works from some email submissions and reliably doesn't from the Exchange submission, we know it's not the CMS. 'Tis makin' us nuts.
We're pretty much out of ideas here and our hosting provider's also run out. But we have a very smart readership out there, so I'm hoping you guys have a clue. If you've got a suggestion (please make it polite), send it to me at david@zatz.com. If your suggestion happens to be the one with the right answer and we can fix it, I'll publicly tell everyone you're a genius.
Thanks in advance!
Can you figure out this weird Exchange quirk?
Hi, David here. We're experiencing a very weird, Exchange-related quirk and= I'm hoping one or more of you Exchange wizards out there will know what's = going on.
We send most of these news postings into OutlookPower's content management = system via email. We've been doing this for years, with no problem. However= , when we send in a news posting through our hosted Exchange server, the po= sting tends to include lots of weird equal-sign-space sequences, (like th= =3D s) as you can see in this test posting to WebSpherePower.
Here's what we know. First, we're sending the postings in Plain Text, so it= 's not an RTF or HTML issue. When we send the posting into the CMS using a = simple SMTP server, we don't have any problems. But when we send the postin= g into the CMS using Exchange, we do.
At first, we thought it was Outlook (we were using Outlook 2003). So we tri= ed it in Outlook 2007. Same problem. I thought it was something in how we'd= set up Outlook to talk to Exchange, but that's not the case. Our hosting p= rovider had the idea that we should try submitting the posts through Outloo= k Web Access (for Exchange 2007). That removes both Outlook and our connect= ion from Outlook to Exchange from the variable mix. And the problem persist= s.
And we also know it's not our CMS, because the CMS merely downloads email f= rom a (non-Exchange) SMTP server and since it works from some email submiss= ions and reliably doesn't from the Exchange submission, we know it's not th= e CMS. 'Tis makin' us nuts.
We're pretty much out of ideas here and our hosting provider's also run out= . But we have a very smart readership out there, so I'm hoping you guys hav= e a clue. If you've got a suggestion (please make it polite), send it to me= at david@zatz.com. If your suggestion happens to be the one with the right= answer and we can fix it, I'll publicly tell everyone you're a genius.
Thanks in advance!
"Windows 7" Screenshots
At the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft will hand out "pre-beta" copies of Windows 7 to developers. For those who might want to see what they're getting first, this site currently has some screenshots from the new OS.
User tracks down laptop thief via remote access
Turning the tables, the victim monitors the thief's computer use remotely and provides police with the thief's address.
Kevin Mitnick Detained in Atlanta
Kevin Mitnick, free for 8 years after doing time for breaking into computer networks, was stopped by authorities on his arrival in Atlanta, GA for a computer conference. While he was being searched at the Atlanta airport, Columbian police were going through a package he'd mailed in Bogota apparently looking for drugs.
Can you trust your email?
From its humble beginnings as a laboratory tool in the early 1970s, email has become a vital tool of business. It's the first thing most executives check in the morning, and the last thing they do at night. All very well. But can you trust it? A strange question perhaps--but a relevant one following some innovative (and perhaps alarming) new research by professors at three business schools.
Psychologists have long known that people find it easier to mislead and dissemble in written communication, without the telltale visual clues which help others know when someone is lying. But the two new studies, by business professors at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Chicago's DePaul University, suggest that people are notably more likely to lie in an email even than in traditional pen-and-paper communication.
Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0
Microsoft has announced the name of the next version of its developer tools and platform: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.
In the announcement on Sept. 29, Microsoft also described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing ALM (application life-cycle management), said Dave Mendlen, a director of product management in Microsoft's Developer Division.
Security hole allows free Amazon downloads
A security hole in Adobe Flash video server software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com's video streaming service. The Adobe Flash video server software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players. The Adobe Flash video servers are connected to Adobe's Flash video players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected PC computers.
Tech industry still buoyant says Ballmer
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he stillsees a "certain buoyancy" among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes.
"Our industry is not immune to what goes on in the global economy. And yet as I travel... given the current circumstances, people still see a certain buoyancy in the market," Ballmer told a meeting of Silicon Valley civic leaders.
New article: Some tips for finding missing Outlook Express files
Mike and Judy (oh, I so hope Mike's nickname is "Punch") wrote us in the hopes of finding some lost Outlook Express email messages. This article provides some tips that might help them find those messages.
Read this OutlookPower article.
Add2Exchange syncs your mobile with Exchange
DidItBetter.com Software, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in Microsoft Outlook and Exchange solutions for mobile device users, announces Add2Exchange Enterprise Sync Suite v5.9. Add2Exchange offers Windows Mobile smartphone, Pocket PC, and BlackBerry users a way to access and sync Exchange public folders--Outlook calendars, contacts and/or tasks--at the office and on the go.
Navigate Outlook's modules
Outlook users: Still reaching for your mouse every time you want to switch between, say, your calendar and contact list? Turns out that by memorizing a few keyboard shortcuts, you can whip around Outlook faster than Superman around the Earth trying to turn back time.
Clickjacking: A new cross-browser exploit
Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms--Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash.
The threat, called Clickjacking, was to be discussed at the OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference but, at the request of Adobe and other affected vendors, the talk was nixed until a comprehensive fix is ready.
Researchers discover PDF exploit packs
If you still need a reason to patch that installation of Adobe Reader, pay close attention to this discovery by Secure Computing's anti-malware research labs.
The group has stumbled upon an exploit pack that exclusively targets PDF vulnerabilities, exposing millions of Windows desktops to malicious hacker attacks.
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