A major BIND vulnerability was discovered this week . BIND is the most popular DNS software on the Internet. CERT recommends upgrading BIND to 4.9.8, 8.2.3 or 9.1. Though Hotmail scans for viruses, the Hotmail virus checker is at least six versions behind . McAfee, who provides the anti-virus feature for Microsoft, says they've given Microsoft the updates, but Microsoft hasn't bothered to install them.
CERT has an excellent technical paper on intrusion detection systems .
The program, dubbed Notsync, uses the Palm's infrared port and pretends to be a desktop computer. When the Palm hotsyncs data with Notsync, Notsync gets the devices password. A more sophisticated version could grab address book and calendar data, along with email and notes. The company will layoff 250 workers . Friday, February 2 Happy Groundhog Day and Candlemas.