Who sends a letter to the RIAA informing them of their pirating activities?

I’ve written a number of blog posts about the RIAA, and how people have been wrongfully accused of stealing (pirating) by the RIAA, and law suits threatened. Well, it appears, that someone at the RIAA has been doing a little illegal downloading of their own, though the RIAA claims it was not them. Here’s more information: http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-someone-else-is-pirating-through-out-ip-addresses-111221/ So secure those …

CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA11-350A – Adobe Vulnerabilities – Windows, Mac, Unix

A little something to keep you busy…   Adobe vulnerabilities that affect Microsoft Windows, Mac and Unix machines. Patch ’em up!   —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA11-350A Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: December 16, 2011 Last revised: — Source: US-CERT Systems Affected * Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) …

Merry Christmas! Microsoft releases Exchange 2010 SP2 featuring new mini version of OWA, multi-valued custom attributes and more!

As promised, Microsoft released SP2 for Exchange Server 2010 on 2011-12-12, and the SP brings with it a number of features and fixes: Incorporates all the changes from Update Rollup 1 through 6 for SP1 Adds Hybrid Configuration Wizard for ease of managing a deployment between your on site Exchange and your Office 365 Exchange Introduces Address Book Policies, which …

1

CERT releases Cyber Security Alert TA11-347A for Microsoft Updates…

National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA11-347A Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: December 13, 2011 Last revised: — Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office Internet Explorer Overview There are multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has released updates to address these vulnerabilities. I. Description The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December …

Check out YouHaveDownloaded.com to see what may have been downloaded using your IP address

Visit this site http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/ and hopefully you will see something like this: Wow!! Are you sure you and your friends don’t work for the RIAA? Maybe Sony or Universal? Maybe you’re both just really good at covering your tracks. Either way, congratulations, neither you or your friends and family returned any results from our crawlers. Tonight, you can jump into bed, open up Netflix or iTunes and …

1

Disk encryption likely to hinder law enforcement efforts

Hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving!  We sure did, but we are back at work. While reading an article over on physorg entitled “Research team finds disk encryption foils law enforcement efforts“, I was reminded of conversations from over a dozen years ago with friends in law enforcement about how criminals were using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) to encrypt their …

Homeland Secure IT computer service Thanksgiving hours #HappyThanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to your family! In order to allow everyone at Homeland Secure IT to prep for the festivities, we are taking off early today, Wednesday November 23rd, hopefully around 2pm, and will return Monday November 28th. We *will* be available for emergency calls as always. Please, eat too much, and spend way too much on Black …