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SECURITY-MakingThingsEasyToReadToPreventAdvertisingSniffers


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SECURITY-MakingThingsEasyToReadToPreventAdvertisingSniffers
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New SSL Certificate


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So I finally generated the new server certificate for SSL. You may have already encountered the warning and installed the new certificate. If you’d like a review of how to import the new ticket, I’ve updated the detail pages I made last year (lots easier than doing a whole nuther set of pages…).

screenshots showing certificate [...]

Expired Certificate


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Those who use SomeNet’s SquirrelMail, have likely noticed this advisory pointing out the server’s expired certificate… You probably just ‘continue anyway’ - otherwise you don’t get your email. I’ll generate a new ’self-signed’ certificate (anytime now, real soon) and once you accept that, it will quit complaining.
Thanks /;^)

Feeling Daring ?


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Beginning November 1, 2006, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7.0 through the “Automatic Updates” feature as a high-priority update. Although Microsoft is calling this an Automatic Update, it reportedly

update your Microsoft


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Next in an on-going series of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities… Microsoft has acknowledged a vulnerability in IE’s handling of VML (Vector Markup Language). As the Outlook email client uses IE to render html email messages, the hacker world has already created a “WebAttacker” toolkit, to exploit this weakness. There is a good writeup on Internetnews.com …