IM your friends from your browser. Free, fast, and no download required. Compact and easy to use.

No more hogging up system resources, or installation of buggy versions of AIM.

UPDATE! 8-31-2008

2008 chances of the playoffs are just as sad as everything else related to 2008!

I hold high hopes for 2009.

You just have to keep your options open.

Part 1 from the movie that General Motors and Chevron don’t want you to see. It’s called Who Killed The Electric Car. The movie explains how GM and the oil companies, crippled their own attempts to produce an electric car. It doesn’t mention, but explains anyway, why Toyota is now the world’s number 1 car maker and GM is going bust: lack of vision and forward planning.
What I’d really like to know is why Japan doesn’t have incentives for electric vehicles in their own country. Or Korea, or the EU, for that matter.

For the remaining parts:
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11

Another great movie in the works!

Almost exactly a year ago, it was announced that producer Samuel Hadida has secured the rights to the video game “Return to Castle Wolfenstein,” with Roger Avary attached to write and direct the adaptation of the id Software property. The duo had previously worked together on video game adaptation Silent Hill.

id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead told Eurogamer that the project is still in development, saying that “with the writer’s strike it took so long to get underway and Roger Avary, the writer, had a commitment that was in line before working the Wolfenstein stuff, but I’ve recently been in contact with Roger and he’s actually working on the script right now.”

The WWII-set “Return to Castle Wolfenstein” revolves around U.S. Army Ranger B.J. Blazkowicz, who leads a team of agents into Castle Wolfenstein in order to investigate the Nazis’ SS Paranormal Division.

Previously endorsed by me as a reliable FREE alternative Web content filtering software package for children. I really can’t complain about this exploit as the K9 people have protected Justin’s PC flawlessly for over a year. I’m confident they will have this all taken care of in short order.

Secunia, the security service provider, has reported three errors in K9 Web Protection from Blue Coat, which is free for private use. The errors enable attackers to take control of a client system. The causes are a buffer overflow that occurs in k9filter.exe, the filter service, when it is processing an excessively long “Referer” header, and two buffer overflows when defective HTTP responses are received from the central information server (sp.cwfservice.net). Although a successful attack using the first overflow only requires a visit to a manipulated page, a man-in-the-middle or DNS spoofing attack has to be initiated to exploit the other two errors to slip code in and run it.

The errors were found in version 3.2.44 of K9 with version 3.2.32 of the filter, but other versions could be similarly vulnerable. Blue Coat is already working on a fix for the problem. An updated version 4.1.x is promised for September. Blue Coat recommends that the product be uninstalled until then. Alternatively, users can install the beta version, said to be coming out on 8 August.

Secunia Research 31/07/2008

- Blue Coat K9 Web Protection “Referer” Header Buffer Overflow -

Table of Contents

Affected Software…………………………………….1
Severity……………………………………………………2
Vendor’s Description of Software………………3
Description of Vulnerability………………………4
Solution…………………………………………………….5

1) Affected Software

* Blue Coat K9 Web Protection 3.2.44 with Filter version 3.2.32.

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote

(3) Vendor’s Description of Software

“K9 Web Protection is our free Internet filtering and control solution
for the home. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can
protect your kids.”.

Product Link:
http://www.k9webprotection.com/

4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in K9 Web Protection,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s
system.

The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error in the filter service
(k9filter.exe) during processing of “Referer” headers when the
web-based K9 Web Protection Administration interface is accessed. This
can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly
long “Referer:” header.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user
e.g. visits a malicious web site.

5) Solution

The vendor is reportedly working on a fixed version, which may be
available shortly.

RSS can save you time. Watch the video and see how.

This is the most simplified video tutorial I have seen to get you familiarized with why News Readers and RSS feeds are so beneficial!

This is one of my favorite clips from the series “TheOffice”.