patch cycles?

I know a few people who don't trust Microsoft. Everytime they see a patch available from our friends in Redmond, they happily ignore it! "probably just a scam. probably Bill wants to know how much I'm using firefox and google!"

... uh - no.

Setting your computer to automatically accept patches from well established vendors like Microsoft, Adobe, and your Anti-virus vendor is a wise thing to do. EXACTLY for the reason shown in the article below!

Researcher: Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours

Hmm, let's do the math - m'soft issued a patch in October - so that's about 70 days later someone has put together a nice attack based on it. That's a pretty long time to be sitting still without patching, but apparently there are millions of target boxes available!

Credit Card News: Consumer Tips Regarding Identity Theft for 2009

There is a book called the world is flat, and Disney has haunted millions with that song 'it's a small world afterall. But there really are 2 worlds. One that is physical - the other that is cyber.

Identity theft in the cyber world is primarily where I work - this article regards the physical world. It's a good 'cheat sheet' for tips regarding what to do to first prevent identity theft, and then what to do if it happens anyhow.

Credit Card News: Consumer Tips Regarding Identity Theft for 2009