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Windows XP Service Pack 3 is just around the corner and from the looks of it, it will be made available these coming few days. Microsoft plans to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to business on April 21, 2008 (tomorrow April 22 local PH time) and to the general public on April 29, 2008 via Windows Update. Below is the Windows XP SP3 release overview:

April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers
April 29, 2008: Manual Update (Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center)
June 10, 2008: Automatic Update (Windows Update)

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Getting hacked is embarrassing for any website. Getting hacked when you sell security software has to be humiliating, but Trend Micro is not the only security vendor to have its Web site hacked in recent months. In January, parts of CA’s Web site were infected with a very similar type of attack which redirected their visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site — some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night — and took corrective action.”

Some Anti-virus vendors offer Online Scanners on their website. These tools often requires you to download a small plugin which enables your browser to utilize their online Anti-virus offerings.

Good thing about online AV scanners is they give you a real world benchmark on how it scans and detect viruses in the wild. This a good determining factor if you are looking for an Anti-virus solution for your home computer.

Here are the list of Online Anti-Virus Scanners I found around the web:

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Just a few hours ago, Automattic released WordPress 2.3.3 which fixes the flaw found in the XML-RPC implementation of WordPress which would allow a valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.

A recommended update for your WordPress powered blog and I suggest you do so. I saw a couple of blogs being exploited because of an outdated WP engine. We don’t want to have someone exploit the bugs on your own blog, do we now?

With version 2.3.3, it also includes some few minor bugs that can be found here. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy over your existing xmlrpc.php.

Download: WordPress 2.3.3

First post of the year! Anyway, the good wordpress developers has just released the latest version of Wordpress. This address certain security vulnerability. The Feedburner problem was also fixed with this release.

Here are the changes that have been made since 2.0.6:

• Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”
• Feeds now properly serve 304 Not Modified headers instead of mismatched 200/304 headers (a.k.a. the FeedBurner bug).
• Backport of another 304 Not Modified fix from WordPress 2.1
• Deleting WordPress Pages no longer gives an “Are You Sure?” prompt.
• After deleting a WordPress Page, you are now properly redirected to the Edit Pages screen.
• Sending an image at original size in Internet Explorer no longer adds an incorrect “height” attribute.

Download: Wordpress

As we all know, Microsoft is one of the biggest IT company in the world. It is also one of the biggest target for hackers out there. Here’s how they protect from the continues onslaught of probes, intrusion attempts, spams and viruses.

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Finally! After weeks of editing scripts and some minor server problems, my website is now online. Though the site still needs a lot of work, it will be updated when time permits.

I would like to thank Carlo for providing me an account and Poell for helping me out with my domain problem and wordpress inquiries.

It’s now 1:00 AM and I still need to report for work tomorrow. Time for me to sleep.