Core Services

Year: 2006

  • Firefox 1.5 and Javascript

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    doachs

    Not sure if anyone else has noticed this or not, but there are a few websites out there that cause my cpu usage to max out. I first noticed it shortly after installing Firefox 1.5 and visiting any oreillynet.com website. It appears as thought it is caused by something in the sites javascript because disabling…

  • This Weeks Status Update

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    doachs

    Microsoft WMF Vulnerability: Obviously the big story this week was the Windows WMF vulnerability. I think we caught this one early, told people how to avoid infection, and now with the Windows patch being available, are fairly safe. I am still worried that a lot of computers were silently infected with some spyware, but chances…

  • Greylisting Effective Against WMF

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    doachs

    So far so good on the WMF vulnerability. I have not yet seen any evidence of any computer on campus being infected via this route. One thing I just noticed this morning after reading the F-Secure Blog and searching our logs for robert@yale.edu, is that our greylisting software is working to combat this particular message.…

  • WMF Vulnerability

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    doachs

    As everyone should know by now, there is a major security threat out there exploiting the WMF vulnerability. For now we are trying to watch the situation closely, and get the appropriate info out there to those who need it. As a precaution, based on info from http://isc.sans.org/diary.php we are blocking the following networks at…