Tag: WASHINGTONPOST

Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday at Microsoft, and the Washington Post's Brian Krebs says it's likely that among the patches we'll see tomorrow will be Internet Explorer 7. That would mean that everybody who has Windows Update set to automatically install patches will reboot to find a brand new IE on their desktop. Microsoft has declined to comment, but has confirmed that IE7 would be shipping this ...

Brian Krebs of the Washington Post writes about how Banks and other financial institutions are stopping phishers by disallowing the use of their logo and website images via a white-listing technology for outgoing image links. This forces phishers to actually do some work if they want to duplicate the website, since the bank swaps the real images with a fraud warning image. The phishing site thinks ...

With little fanfare Microsoft released Windows Media Player 11 in beta form last week coupled with Urge, the music service from Microsoft and MTV designed to compete with Apple's iTunes Music Store. WMP11 is a sort of preview of what we can expect to see next year in Windows Vista, and the question that seems to be on everyone's minds is whether Microsoft can finally best Apple's rock-solid player ...

The Washington Post is running an interesting article about typosquatting, i.e. running a web site with an address similar to a legitimate site (e.g. "bistbuy.com") solely for the purpose of filling it with ads, and how not only the squatters, but also Google, are making a killing on it. Unsurprisingly, many of the ads on typo domains are served by Google's AdSense, and Google is ...