After perusing O'Reilly's book IPv6 Network Administration (reviewed in Dr. I. Doctor March 31, 2005), I decided to see just how hard it is to get IPv6 up and running. Not hard at all, it turns out. Just a little reading, a free IPv6 connection from Hurricane Electric, and a few minutes tinkering with an old Cisco 2611 router put me on the IPv6 Internet with my own IPv6 address block. I can now surf to any IPv6 site in the world, and run an IPv6 Web server to boot! You can do it too, and you... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 04/14/2005 1:44 AM By Mel Beckman
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Platform: Numerous Microsoft Products
Microsoft Severity: Important to Critical
Actual Severity: IMPORTANT and CRITICAL
Microsoft this week released another landslide of vulnerability alerts and associated fixes -- the second largest batch this year. Two waves of bugs, one announced last week and one this week, hit many Microsoft operating systems and applications. The U.S. Cert published two "Technical Cyber Security Alert" bulletins summarizing the two events.... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 04/14/2005 1:22 AM By Mel Beckman
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