Users who are using Apple’s Safari web browser on a Windows operating system are at high risk according to Microsoft’s security team. They said that there is a hole that allows malware to be posted on a user’s desktop without their permission.

The article at Networkworld.com quoted a story which says:
The recommendation comes a week after researcher Nitesh Dhanjani reported that Apple’s browser doesn’t seek user permission before downloading certain types of files. Even when encountering malicious iframes – a common occurrence these days even on the most trustworthy of sites – Safari obediently does what it’s told to do, including downloading a file hundreds of times.

Source: Network World

In the past, I wrote an article on how I would do it all again if I lost my business, my money and my contacts but not my knowledge of how I got here. I did plenty of things wrong the first time around so if I had to do it again, here is how I would do it.

Now, Everyone else’s path to get where they are now was probably fairly different to mine and I am sure they made plenty of their own mistakes on the way. What I would like to know is how YOU would do it all again if you lost your business, money and contacts.

How much startup money do you think you would need, knowing what you know now?

What are some mistake you made the first time and how would you avoid them now?

What is one piece of important advice you would give someone just starting out?

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The website, comcast.net, has been hacked on Wednesday night. The Register included a screenshot of what the website looked like when it was hacked. After two hours, users who visit the site are shown a “page under construction” message.

KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBK are the names of the hackers according to The Register.

“There is still a lot of speculation about the details of this and why this happened. But it is clear now that a group of people (according to the hacker’s message) somehow rerouted the IP and DNS values of Comcast to an off site. (http://www.freewebs.com/kryogeniks911/),” said a Comcast user, Chris.

He added that, “It appears there was no malicious codes or script being run but a lot of people are saying that ports were being ‘listened’ to which could have led to the compromising of username/passwords.”

Source: The Register

PC World has posted an article today about a trick that helps a user find files that have the same file name in a Mac operating system.

If a user has sorted the files from newest to the oldest and wants to know where is the file that has a similar file name as one of the newest files, all he or she has to do is click on one of the newest files and then press the Tab key. Finder automatically finds where is the next file because it thinks that the folder is sorted by name rather than date. To do the opposite, a user should press Shift-Tab.

Source: PC World

There is a new hole that was discovered recently about the password encryption on the BT Home Hub which is the most popular Wi-Fi Router in Britain.

According to an article at Channel Register, the security department of BT changed the default password from “admin” to the router’s serial number. However, requests to the device’s multicast IP address are answered so their passwords are exposed. The article also notes that these cases only applies to requests that was sent by machine to the local area network.

The article includes a link on how users can lock down their connection to keep them safe.

Source: Channel Register

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The Register has posted an article that Mozilla has not yet decided whether they will release another release candidate for their web browser, Firefox, version 3.0.

“We’ve been triaging the bugs and so far have ten bugs that look of the highest priority. We are going to approve these to land on trunk so we can get regression and nightly testing on them. If we need to do an RC2 they’ll be ready to go – if we ship RC1 we can get them in the 3.0.1. We will make the go/no-go decision on an RC2 Tuesday of next week once we’ve wrapped all testing and evaluated feedback [on Release Candidate 1],” writes the vice president of engineering of Mozilla.

Source: The Register

There are a few updates that were released today for Windows online service called Windows Live SkyDrive.

Now, users can add captions and descriptions to every single one of their pictures. Also, you can permit others to leave comments on them.

A click control has been added which is a feature for browsing through files in  a folder. Two new views are available for the folders. The first shows details and the second shows photo thumbnails.

Microsoft also released a new build of Live Mesh recently. The new build fixed various bug fixes. Microsoft has not announced whether Live SkyDrive and Live Mesh will be merged someday although both services have the same features in some cases.

Source: Ars Technica

A man named Bill has been charged for $1,632 when he bought a personal copy of Windows Vista on Microsoft online store called Windows Live Marketplace. This is due  to errors that he got when he purchased the operating system.

The errors says, “Microsoft cannot be contacted at this time” and “Please try again later.” He received this error six times and his order successfully went through on the seventh attempt. However, his account was charged seven times for $233.15 each.

The article on theinquirer.net notes that there is also another problem. He ordered Vista Ultimate Upgrade but he cannot use it.

Source: The Inquirer

Some of you may already know what “The Force Field” is but for those who dont, “The Force Field” is a podcast aimed at IT service professionals. For the first part of the show they talk about current tech news and for the second part they interview guests to talk about certain topics. This week, I was the guest and we’ll talk about the Technibble website and a little bit about the computer industry.

You can download the mp3 here (27mb)

Or stream it using The Force Fields player here.