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) Flash! Firefox No Longer An Automatic Defense Against Browser
On Windows Vista-based machines, however, the proportion of vulnerabilities attacked in Microsoft software was much smaller, accounting for just 6 percent of the total. Microsoft software accounted for 5 of the top 10 browser-based vulnerabilities attacked on computers running Windows XP in 1H08, compared to zero of the top 10 on computers running Windows Vista.So Windows and Internet Explorer are a declining factor in the exploitation of users through browsers on XP, and only a very small factor on Vista.
What's filling in the non-Microsoft percentage? Third-party apps, with Adobe Flash as the most important example. There are others, including Acrobat, but Flash exploits, in the form of malicious SWF files, are very common now. Some of them are as simple as redirects to a malicious site that tries to do other things or just to sell you rogue software, but some are full-out buffer overflows in Flash. More>>
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) Michael Binnion: Wildcatting in Quebec's St. Lawrence Lowlands
His father Larry, also an accountant, worked in Imperial Oil's first computer data centre, then launched a software company that sold licence administration packages to American state governments. His equally entrepreneurial son came to the oil patch by an exceptionally roundabout route involving golf and movable office walls.After graduating (B.Comm-University of Alberta), Binnion spent seven years as a Toronto-based specialist in tax-assisted corporate financings with a major accounting firm since. He then worked for Bruce Strongman, founder of the paint store chain Color Your World. "After Bruce semi-retired, he stayed active by buying Nevada Bob's and I managed it under his direction," Binnion says. "From 1988 to 1992, I looked after golf stores and strip plazas, and oversaw development of a couple golf courses. More>>
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) Local net crime rises
"In Australia we hosted the sixth highest percentage of underground economy servers, accounting for 4 per cent of the total identified globally," Mr Scroggie said."Some of the largest underground activity in the IRC networks was observed on servers in Australia, while the 14th longest active underground server had a local address."
On software piracy, Symantec found that Australia was ranked 10th in the number of illegal downloads of computer games and specialist multimedia and business applications by country (excluding music and video file piracy).
The nation also ranked 10th in the number of users making software files available for illegal copying.
Symantec's figures are far higher than the latest Australian Institute of Criminology Underground Markets in Stolen Digital Information Review, in May 2007, in which Australia was not in the top 10. More>>
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) The Executives Association of San Diego
BOOKEEPING and ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE TAG, 2150 W. Washington Street #401 (92110). Steve Bond. 619-225-9322. steve.bond@teamtag.net.BUILDING CONSULTANT Parra Building Consultants, 3127 Kalmia St. (92104). Dennis Parra. 619-232-1100. Parbc@aol.com.
BUSINESS & COMPUTER FURNITURE MFG. Omni Pacific, 505 Raleigh Ave., El Cajon (92020). Thomas P. Burke. 619-579-6664. tburke@omnipacific.com.
BUSINESS EDUCATION Vistage International, Inc., 11452 El Camino Real, Ste. 400 (92130). Pat Hyndman. Phone & FAX 858-273-6411. pat@hyndmanusa.com. Associate, Lauryn Rice, 1870 Goldfield St., (92110), 619-993-6405, lauryn.rice@vistage.com.
BUSINESS EDUCATION/SALES TRAINING Sandler Sales Institute. 3825 Baker St. (92117) 858-272-8654. Darren Cecil. More>>
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) Worksoft to Host Webinar and Live Worksoft Certify Demo
She holds degrees in accounting, tax, and law and is a frequent industry speaker and award-winning author on software quality. She is a regular columnist and contributor to www.StickyMinds.com and Better Software Magazine, as well as a columnist for Computerworld and Datamation, author of the Automated Testing Handbook, contributor to Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step by Step Guide, and co-editor of Dare to be Excellent on best practices in the software industry. Her article "Quality is Everyone's Business" won a Most Significant Contribution award from the Quality Assurance Institute and was published as part of the Auerbach Systems Development Handbook.About Worksoft Certify™ Life Cycle Management Solutions
The Worksoft Certify™ Life Cycle Management Solution provides unmatched technology to maximize value of ERP investments by minimizing risk and leveraging information in ERP and peripheral systems. More>>
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) UK SBs challenged to dump installed s/w for 24 hours
UK: Accounting software company KashFlow is challenging UK small businesses to dump their desktop applications for 24 hours during the UK's first national Cloud Computing Day on December 12.The event is being organised by KashFlow to encourage UK small businesses to evaluate online applications and speed up the migration from traditional word processing, spreadsheet, accounting, email and contact management systems installed on computers to their web-based counterparts.
Small businesses will be able to share their experiences throughout the day online. A post-event survey will reveal important small business opinions about how cloud computing will help the UK to work more efficiently.
KashFlow managing director Duane Jackson revealed: "Throughout the world businesses are discovering web-based software and it's important that UK small businesses don't get left behind. More>>