Heartbleed bug or exploit in SSL and you.
BYOD
What is that? Its Bring Your Own Device. That is the latest trend in end user computing. Instead of the company purchasing the computer for you, you use the allocated amount to buy the device or you supply it. It is…
Yaaahhoooooo!!!
Are you a Yahoo user? You might want to change your password. At the same time to any other web service that you have the same user id – password combination. Yahoo just been hacked via some really old tech…
Ramblings is now 3.2 are you?
The Ramblings is now WordPress 3.2. The new Admin panel checks the version of your browser and gives you a warning. if it is too old. My FireFox 3.6 gives a yellow warning. Internet Explorer 6 users are suppose get…
Password security
This is a very simple rule in application security. Never ever save a user password in the clear. Quite simple right? No matter where it is stored, ultimately it needs to be opened for reading or backup. If you need…
Internet Explorer 6.0
This is for the viewers that made a cumulated total of 6000 views. Please stop using Internet Explorer 6.0.
Exchange 2007 services cannot start.
This is an oldie. Surprised I did not post this when I first encountered Exchange services not starting in 2008. May be I was too engrossed in this. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has decided Exchange 2007 services will be…
Strange questions that I have heard.
Generally when your colleagues that have clocked a few years in the organization as an application PMs, you don’t expect newbie questions. Especially when the organization does not hire freshies. So questions like “what is play-back-attack” and statements like “SSL…
Western Union scam
Scam mail.
Financial Tsunami
An analysis of latest plan to remove the toxic assets from the US banking system. Does not look good. By F. William Engdahl, 30 March 2009