The Register has published an article that Tibco’s multicasting software called SmartPGM FX has several remote vulnerabilities.

Hackers can cause denial-of-service attacks according to Information Risk Management (IRM), one of UK’s consultancies.

The consultancy did not reveal details about the flaws since Tibco has not yet released a patch for this problem.

The software also has four buffer-overlaw flaws and a format-string issue.

There is no evidence that show that the bugs were being exploited by hackers.

Source: The Register

The objective of most businesses is to grow their customer base. However, there may come a time when you need to get rid of a client. A bad client can suck the life right out of you and make you hate the job you previously loved and sometimes the price of money is not worth it.
However, its not always easy to fire a client because there may be other strings attached. The client may be your father-in-law, a family friend or your bread and butter client.
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The Computer Repair Utility Kit is a combination of all of Technibbles Repair Tools of the Week up to date in one easy pack. The Computer Repair Utility Kit allows you to run all of the repair tools from your portable drive (eg. USB Flash Drive, External Hard Drive, IPod etc.) and comes with an easy to use, right-click menu. A must in any technicians kit.

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A new bug for Windows Updates has been reported by many tech sites including Ars Technica.

A spokesperson from Microsoft said, “We are hearing some reports from around the Web regarding machines that are restarting and having automatic updating settings set back to ‘Install Updates Automatically,’ despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates. We are still investigating what caused this matter. As such, we encourage customers to contact support using the options discussed at support.microsoft.com/security so that we can potentially gather more information.”

Source: Ars Technica

In a past article called “giving away too much information and dealing with time wasters” I talked about the dangers of being too helpful on the phone, to the point where you essentially talk yourself out of a job. In this article I’ll show you how to do the opposite and make sure they decided on you as their computer guy.
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The Register has posted an article about a Russian spammer.

The spam is about the supposed assassination of “Alexey Tolstokozhev” in Moscow. It says:

Alexey Tolstokozhev (btw, in Russian his name means ‘Thick Skin’), a Russian spammer, found murdered in his luxury house near Moscow. He has been shot several times with one bullet stuck in his head. According to authorities, this last head shot is a clear mark of russian hit men (known as “killers” in Russia).

This was written in a website by a person named Alex Loonov. The website was registered last tuesday.

Source: The Register

This is one of the basic fundamentals in business. You can have the best prices, the most convenient location and have the most knowledgeable technicians around, but if people don’t like you it doesn’t really matter that much. Its possible that the only thing holding your business back… is you. There are many reasons why a customer wont like a business owner, here are a few common ones.
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Sophos has added another entry in their blog two days ago about two spams that they have received in their email program.

One of them is a detailed report about smoking which provides some facts about it. The other one is an adult ad for men.

Two screen shots were included in their blog entry which shows parts of the email messages.

The links in the emails goes to websites that were hosted in Greek according to the blog entry.

Source: Sophos

PC World has released an article that the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) flaw that exists in Windows operating systems may also be present for Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.

The URI technology is used for launching programs in web browsers.

A security researcher at Ernst & Young Global Ltd said that a poorly designed URI protocol registration may allow an attacker to see and access data and applications which he or she does not have permission to.

“There is absolutely a chance that similar issues could exist on those platforms,” said Thomas Kristensen of Secunia about the Linux and Mac OS X platforms.

Source: PC World

Various tech sites has reported that the Mac version of Microsoft Word has flaw that can crash a Windows operating system.

‘The discovery continues a trend of vulnerabilities being seen exploited in the wild shortly after patches for them have been released, the so-called “Exploit Wednesday” effect. It seem likely that this apparent link between patches and exploits is largely attributable to the publicity given to vulnerabilities making exploits for them stand out more sharply from the mass of malcode processed by labs every day,’ said a Technical Consultant at Virus Bulletin.

Source: Virus Bulletin