Just a reminder, Windows server 2003 will expire July 13, 2010. If you have extended support, then you have until 2015.
So if you don't have extended support, get it before the expiration date.
- Thomas Johnsen
Friday, August 21, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Important Online Commerce Notice
Buy.com and Orbitz, among many other commerce websites, partner with a company called WebLoyalty in which WebLoyalty has the right to do what they want with the data you give to the commerce sites.
From what I understand, let's say you are on the buy.com website, you have decided ton purchase something and are checking out. During the checkout phase, a pop-up asks if you want a coupon or some special deal and you need to put in your email address. You will not be able to continue until you put in an email address. This is where they get you. If you put in an email address, you have agreed to the fine print and will be charged something like $12.00 a month from WebLoyalty.
Wow, you don't have anything to do with WebLoyalty, so how do they have the right to take your money. From what I understand, when you sign up with companies partnered with WebLoyalty, you agree to the fine print that they have the right to do anything they want with the data you give them, even if that means credit card information. WebLoyalty pays it's clients for that data, then turn around and charge you.
So what do you get for your $12.00? WebLoyalty will let you know about great coupon offers and other deals they think you might be interested in.
Let me see if I understand... WebLoyalty steals my money and repays me with SPAM?!?!?!
Thomas Johnsen
MCSE+Security, MCDST, CCNA, A+, Net+, Sec+
Lead Engineer
Networthy Systems
Beaumont Texas
thomasjohnsen.smbittips@networthysystems.com
www.networthysystems.com
(409) 861-4450
From what I understand, let's say you are on the buy.com website, you have decided ton purchase something and are checking out. During the checkout phase, a pop-up asks if you want a coupon or some special deal and you need to put in your email address. You will not be able to continue until you put in an email address. This is where they get you. If you put in an email address, you have agreed to the fine print and will be charged something like $12.00 a month from WebLoyalty.
Wow, you don't have anything to do with WebLoyalty, so how do they have the right to take your money. From what I understand, when you sign up with companies partnered with WebLoyalty, you agree to the fine print that they have the right to do anything they want with the data you give them, even if that means credit card information. WebLoyalty pays it's clients for that data, then turn around and charge you.
So what do you get for your $12.00? WebLoyalty will let you know about great coupon offers and other deals they think you might be interested in.
Let me see if I understand... WebLoyalty steals my money and repays me with SPAM?!?!?!
Thomas Johnsen
MCSE+Security, MCDST, CCNA, A+, Net+, Sec+
Lead Engineer
Networthy Systems
Beaumont Texas
thomasjohnsen.smbittips@networthysystems.com
www.networthysystems.com
(409) 861-4450
Important iPhone notice!
There is a vulnerability with Apple's iPhone in which the attacker can take total control of your phone.
It seems that the phone can accept commands received through SMS (text messages). They are called controlled SMS messages and work a little different than regular SMS. The attacker runs the initial SMS and from there, the rest of the messages are unseen and run commands in the background.
So what can the attacker do? Well, anything! They can turn on the camera and see what is around you. They can turn on the microphone and hear what you're saying. They can program your phone to send spam (at your expense) and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Remember, your iPhone is a miniture computer and can do virtually anything that a regular computer can do.
What can you do? I just found out that there is an update that will fix the issue that just came out a day or two ago. You have to plug in your iPhone to iTunes and check for updates. Be sure you manually click the button to check for updates. If you just plug in your phone, it will report that no updates are needed until you manually press the "check for updates" button.
This should fix your phone. I'm wondering if it truly fixes the phone or just "band-aids" it. We'll have to wait and see.
How will you know if you have been attacked? So far, the only indication that you have been attacked is if you get a text message with a square at the end of it. No one has said what the message is about so I assume that it really doesn't matter. But, if there is a square at the end, then the phone has been taken over and you should take the battery out until you are ready to update the phone with the latest patches.
Thomas Johnsen, MCSE+Security, MCDST, CCNA, A+, Net+, Sec+
Lead Engineer
Networthy Systems
Beaumont Texas
thomasjohnsen.smbittips@networthysystems.com
www.networthysystems.com
(409) 861-4450
It seems that the phone can accept commands received through SMS (text messages). They are called controlled SMS messages and work a little different than regular SMS. The attacker runs the initial SMS and from there, the rest of the messages are unseen and run commands in the background.
So what can the attacker do? Well, anything! They can turn on the camera and see what is around you. They can turn on the microphone and hear what you're saying. They can program your phone to send spam (at your expense) and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Remember, your iPhone is a miniture computer and can do virtually anything that a regular computer can do.
What can you do? I just found out that there is an update that will fix the issue that just came out a day or two ago. You have to plug in your iPhone to iTunes and check for updates. Be sure you manually click the button to check for updates. If you just plug in your phone, it will report that no updates are needed until you manually press the "check for updates" button.
This should fix your phone. I'm wondering if it truly fixes the phone or just "band-aids" it. We'll have to wait and see.
How will you know if you have been attacked? So far, the only indication that you have been attacked is if you get a text message with a square at the end of it. No one has said what the message is about so I assume that it really doesn't matter. But, if there is a square at the end, then the phone has been taken over and you should take the battery out until you are ready to update the phone with the latest patches.
Thomas Johnsen, MCSE+Security, MCDST, CCNA, A+, Net+, Sec+
Lead Engineer
Networthy Systems
Beaumont Texas
thomasjohnsen.smbittips@networthysystems.com
www.networthysystems.com
(409) 861-4450
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