internet norton security: Mozilla patches 11 Firefox bugs

Mozilla patches 11 Firefox bugs
Firefox 2.0.0.12 fixed four vulnerabilities that Mozilla ranked "critical," one it pegged "high" and three each rated as "moderate" and "low"

Website of UK landmark hacked to serve malware
The actual code embedded on the site's web server appears to point to a server in Turkey, returning instructions directing visitors to the BBC website

Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008
Finally Microsoft announced that Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 is now RTM

Thats all good, but, Vista SP1 wont be available to public until mid of March and also we beta testers, except for the Refresh 2 build, we havent recevied any builds for download. Many do believe that the Refresh 2 build is RTM.

I got this funny picture from Long,

Really funny

And one more thing is that Windows Server 2008 RTM images for both x86 and x64 are available in Connect for small period of time, but without product keys, lol. So, Go figure out how to use it without product keys

I hope there is minimum days for activating Server, but I haven't tried it out. It is also worth to note that x64 versions of Windows Server 2008 are now available in MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.

Adobe PDF exploit infects 'many thousands,' says researcher
Adobe credits New Zealand-based Security-Assessment.com, among others, for reporting the bugs

Joikuspot - turn your Nokia S60 device into a WiFi Access Point

While surfing the interw3b this morning I came across this very cool new Symbian S60 application. Once installed it allows your phone to act as a WiFi hotspot sharing it's GPRS/3G data connection via WiFi.

Now you might think this is nothing special but if you have an iPod Touch, PDA or laptop that has WiFi built it it allows you to connect to the internet when you're not within range of a WiFi network. WiFi is also significantly faster than Bluetooth for data transfers so if you're somebody who connects their laptop to their phone via Bluetooth there could be significant speed increases moving to WiFi.

This software is only very new and currently lacks any security which means your WiFi connection is wide open for anybody to leach but certainly shows a lot of potential!

www.joikuspot.com

Antivirus company's website downloads ... a virus
The iFrame technique used on the site has been seen in thousands of similar hacks over the past few months

Attending the 2008 Summer Road Trip - Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008

Cool, it is time for the Wellington IT professional crowd to get into the "2008 Summer Roadtrip".

This tour is coming to Wellington this 13 February, at the Paramount Cinema and will bring the latest information on Microsoft's new IT Pro software - includingWindows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

Chris Auld and Jeremy Boyd, and Darryl Burling are touring the country (yes, driving all the way) showing off all the stuff in Windows Server (Virtualisation, IIS, etc), SQL Server (File Stream, Spatial data types & queries, etc) and Visual Studio (LINQ, CSS designers, etc).

In each location they will be joined by a local speaker.

When you register you enter the draw to win one of two server hardware, Windows Home Server software and more. And you get another entry in the draw if you invite a friend.

These are the remaining dates (click for more information on each event):

Wellington – Feb 13

Nelson – Feb 14

Christchurch – Feb 15

Dunedin – Feb 18

Invercargill - Feb 19

I am attending the Wellington meeting this week. I hear about 400 people are registered - so make an effort to show up - look for me there!

My iPod Touch 1.1.3 Jailbroken Gallery
Here are some shots of my Jailbroken iPod Touch running 1.1.3 after using the iJailbreak method I posted about the other day.

(Click the image to get to the gallery)

Summerboard is now working
Installer 'Main script execution failed' problem has been solved by doing this in SSH
cd /
cd Applications/
wget http://repository.apptapp.com/packages/System/Installer.zip
rm -rf Installer.app
unzip Installer.zip
chmod +s Installer.app/Installer
chown -R root:wheel Installer.app
rm Installer.zip
This downloads the latest installer.app. I fixed mine another way, by setting the correct permissions via ssh then updating installer within installer.
Runs very well.
Maps, Mail, Webclips, lyrics, Weather...etc All run perfectly

Windows Server 2008 - One full day with it :D
So, its been one full day with Windows Server 2008 now and have configured,

1) Active Directory Services

a) Created a new Domain Forest
b) Added Domain Users
c) Joined Vista machines to the Domain (right now 1, but more to come )

2) Configured .NET Environment

a) Installed IIS 7 (IIS 7 looks really nice than in Vista!)
b) Installed the .NET Environment (both .NET 3.0 and 3.5)
[ .NET 3.5 - you have to download and install ]
c) Installed WCF
d) Hosted my WCF Service in IIS

Still to install,

a) SQL Server 2005
b) WSUS for Windows Server 2008
~~[I am not able to get WSUS for Windows Server 2008 RTM, If anybody have any clue about that, please do leave your comment )~~
UPDATE: WSUS 3.0 SP1 is now RTM and available for Windows Server 2008!