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In the wake of so many ISP’s getting away with murder and the government looking the other direction it’s good to see that Florida is stepping in and fining Version for poor response time. http://news.cnet.com/Florida-…00-1036_3-6239655.html?tag=html.alert.hed

This is a great video for both optimizing and securing your Windows XP system. It shows exactly how to disable five services you probably don’t need to be running. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=120&tag=nl.e101

If you have ever had the “Warning: Using insecure memory” message display when using a tool such as GnuPG this article is for you. Not only does it explain exactly what that means it also goes into how to prevent the problem. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=457&tag=nl.e036

Panda security has now launched thier Security as a Service for businesses. Among other services they will be offering: outsourcing of infrastructure, automated updates and patching, compliance checks, risk management, and remote management tools. http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-software/20080519/LAM04119052008-1.html

I read this post on a friend of mine’s blog and thought it was rather useful. I’ve had PHP scripts running on cron before that had exactly this problem. They would lock up after a while and before I knew it, I had about 15 “undead” PHP processes just eating up my CPU. What was worse was that my shared host only allowed each user 15 processes at the same time, so slowly but surely the rest of my sites would go down. http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/05/21/amp-and-runaway-scripts/

Welcome to the Reading Rainbow. Here I plan on making a weekly post of what I’ve been reading and short commentaries on some of the articles.

For those of you too young to get the joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs , yes, I actually watched that show as a kid.

This weeks reading:

Security Risk Management - A different paradigm for a risk management model. Interesting read but not a whole lot of technical specifics.

Windows Still Phone’s Home - Jaqui Greenlees pops open a windows .DLL and finds some interesting ‘features’.

Your Next Text Message Could Be From the FCC - The FCC are looking to use text messaging as an alert system for national trouble, Amber alerts, and weather updates.

Sorry this weeks was short, I want to release on Sundays and I just set up wordpress today. Next week’s will be longer.