A new method of stealing personal financial information uses VOIP to attack bank customer over the phone. Read More...

I see people complain that IntelliSense (new in SQL Server 2008's Management Studio) is not working. Most of the time, it is for one of two reasons: The object is not in the local IntelliSense cache, since it was created recently. You can fix this easily...( Read More...

Want to play StarCraft 2 with your mates over the LAN? Sorry, you have to use BattleNet. Read More...

Microsoft Outlook 2010, like its predecessor Outlook 2007, will base HTML rendering on Word, but the Email Standards Project has launched a campaign on Twitter aimed at getting Microsoft to reconsider. Read More...

A new Financial Year in Australia, and a bunch of technical events coming up. Of course there’s the usual monthly user groups , but there’s more – particularly if you’re in Adelaide. July sees CodeCampSA in Adelaide on the weekend of July 18/19. I’ve Read More...

Finjan released SecureBrowsing, which is a browser extension than scan Web pages in realtime to detect potentially malicious content. Read More...

Next Tuesday feels like a significant day. Not only is it 7/7, and the fourth anniversary of the London bombings (in 2005), but it’s 40,000 days since the beginning of time. Well, not proper time, but since the start of the 1900s. SELECT DATEDIFF(day,'19000101','20090707')+1 Read More...

I've always been concerned with security and I've always stressed the importance of auditing the REAL user context not just the current user (see this post on EXECUTE AS and auditing). So, I generally try to avoid using dynamic string execution Read More...