Mike Little’s Journalized

Yet another Internet Explorer exploit has been discovered. This one is ripe for many of the phishing scams that have been going around.

Secunia have a good, detailed advisory.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error, which can be exploited by including the “%01″ URL encoded representation after the username and right before the “@” character in an URL.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious person to display an arbitrary FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the address bar, which is different from the actual location of the page.

Steve Minutillo has an example. Andy at absoblogginlutely has another example.

Remember, these only ‘work’ as intended in Internet Explorer.

Jan’s mum, Olive, passed on six years ago today. We still miss her.

When I must leave you
For a little while
Please do not grieve and shed wild tears
And hug your sorrows to you through the years
But start out bravely with a gallant smile
And for my sake and in my name
Live on and do all things the same
Feed not your loneliness on empty days
But fill each waking hour in useful ways
Reach out your hand in comfort and in cheer
And I in turn will comfort you and hold you near
And never, never be afraid to die
For I am waiting for you
In the sky
– Helen Steiner Rice

My daughter Jamie has her opening night of her first pantomime tonight. The stage school she attends has a pantomime every year. This year Jamie will be performing about 6 songs as part of the chorus in the show and she has several dances too. I will be going to see her tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to it. If her singing around the house is an indication she will be great!

Good luck Jamie.
Lots of Love,

Mum and Dad
XOXOXOXOX

It looks like Seyed has finally thrown in the towel. BlogShares has officially closed down.

I am sorry to announce that BlogShares will not be reopening after the current technical difficulties are resolved. Currently, the database server is dead and looks to be for the next few days.

It was fun while it lasted. But as Seyed himself says there has been a decline of quality service, new features and ultimately income for the site in the last couple of months.

I’m glad to have been part of it from quite early on (I was member number 341, joined at the end of March).