As most of you have heard there has recently been an exploit in Internet Explorer that caused data breaches at some of the largest companies in the world (including Google and Adobe).
In response to the recent vulnerability and exploit Microsoft has announced they will be releasing an Out-of-Band emergency patch today, Thursday January 21st.
Below is some of the information from the notification.
Bulletin Identifier
Microsoft [ continue reading... ]
Tag Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft Emergency Out-of-Band Security Update
BING! Apple Considering Switching Default Search on iPhone
Business Week is reporting that Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace the Google, the current default search engine on the iphones, with Bing!.
Too me this is a major hit to Google in a monetary sense, since their base revenues are generated from Advertising income.
I believe this move is because Google is starting to become more and more intertwined with the smart phone [ continue reading... ]
Microsoft Security apparently is a Bad Request
So right on the cusps of the Emergency patch release by Microsoft on Oct 17th, I decided to try to read up on it (I run Linux, so I was immune anyways). Read More about that here
But to my surprise when I went to go read up on security on Microsoft’s stuff, I thought “Hey, they must have a security subdomail”, so I went to [ continue reading... ]
Switching from Windows to Linux, what you need to know
Switching from Windows to Linux and what you need to know:
Since we are in touch economic times the most important question is “How much will this cost me”? The answer is nothing, zero, zilch or nada. Whatever phrase you want to use (unless you’re really a stickler and want to divide your monthly Internet bandwidth cost against the time it took you to download [ continue reading... ]
Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0
As you may have noticed currently there is no package in the openSUSE 11.0 update repo to install Microsoft fonts during your openSUSE 11.0 installation. As we have learned that sometimes you just need fonts like Times New Roman and many others that are provided from Microsoft.
So, are you here because you wanted to find out how to install the said fonts. So here’s [ continue reading... ]





