WindowsSecrets - Who's your daddy?

iNet is! WindowsSecrets has become part of the iNet family of communities. If interested, checkout their stuff at the links below and let me know what you think about their articles. The webdesign is obviously a bit dated, but any feedback about their articles I'd be interested in.

If you aren't familiar here is a listing of their content:
http://www.windowssecrets.com/library/

These are the people who make the magic happen. Fairly experienced professional editorial team:
http://windowssecrets.com/about/

Will take a run over there, always look for new things to read about while at work.

I looked at a few articles.. nothing jaw dropping, but well written for the most part and informative. I do agree that the site itself needs a good makeover though.

You have to pay to read some of their articles?

http://www.windowssecrets.com/2010/09/16/07-New-path-for-zero-day-attacks-old-printers

Anyway, about this zero-day attack - I just recently worked on a customer's system and combofix found and deleted what appeared to be HP printer .dll files, because they started with hp****.dll. This user only had lexmark printers installed.

So, be on the look out.

That is an interesting article... makes me wonder how long Microsoft searched to find the XP specific vulnerability and mark it as critical to scare more people away from their beloved XP and onto bigger, better, (more expensive) things like windows 7.

The vulnerability is exposed through badly written 8 year old printer drivers also, which sort of inspires me with a "no crap" thats a bad idea.

The full text actually details all the perspectives on the current update releases, and its quick through each one but it does hit the high points well - if you like to review what the patches are for before applying everything windows update sends to you, it would be a good read.