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Licensing 6.0 might make it easier for Microsoft's software cops to audit you, but that doesn't mean they will. A Microsoft attorney tells SearchWin2000.com that the company would rather you audit yourself. A Gartner analyst also chimes in with some tips on what to do if an audit is hanging over your head.
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Analysts: Trustworthy computing still a dream (InfoWorld)
FrontPage, SQL Server, a flawed HTML-based help function -- the latest rash of security alerts from Microsoft has security experts and analysts wondering when trustworthy computing will be a reality instead of a goal. According to Microsoft's own math, the company has issued 57 security alerts so far this year.
NEWS
Savvy Bugbear now spreading faster than Klez (SearchSecurity.com)
The Bugbear worm has unseated Klez as the most virulent piece of malicious code in the wild this week. Since it was discovered early this week, the worm has continued to steadily spread via e-mail and network shares. McAfee AVERT has the direst numbers, saying that the worm spread rate went up 60% yesterday alone.
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QUICK HIT OF THE DAY
Making your laptops traveling fortresses
People use laptop computers everywhere and for everything. Critical, sensitive corporate and private data goes with them, and is as vulnerable to attack, theft and destruction as a small child's lunch money when the school bully comes around. And yet even those charged with maintaining notebooks for corporate users still don't know diddly about locking them down. Here are 13 things you need to do to lock down laptops.
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THE MISSING LINK
Joke gets crowned king of the knee slappers
What joke is the perfect blend of badda, bing and boom? A British researcher studying humor asked Web surfers worldwide to rate their favorite yuks. More than 40,000 jokes and two million ratings later, the king of the knee slappers has been crowned.
"Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other man pulls out his phone and calls emergency services. He gasps to the operator: 'My friend is dead! What can I do?' The operator replies: 'Take it easy. First, let's make sure he's dead.' There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the hunter says, 'OK, now what?'"
LOL! One of the most interesting finds in the study: Germans laughed the most, Canadians the least.
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