http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/19/1757229/40-Windows-Apps-Said-To-Contain-Critical-Bug?from=rss

From /.:

About 40 different Windows applications contain a critical flaw that can be used by attackers to hijack PCs and infect them with malware, says HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 and creator of the open-source Metasploit penetration-testing toolkit. Gregg Keizer reports that the bug was patched by Apple in its iTunes software for Windows four months ago, but remains in more than three dozen other Windows programs, s.

Google has just released an updated version of Google Calendar Sync which works with the latest version of Microsoft’s enterprise workhorse… well, mostly anyways.

Sync only works with 32-bit installs of Outlook 2010, though to be fair even Microsoft recommended that users roll with that version to prevent plug-in compatibility issues. 64-bit support will likely come later on — when 64-bit Office installs are a bit more commonplace.

http://gigaom.com/2010/08/18/free-wi-fi-hotspots-outnumber-paid-wi-fi-in-the-u-s-says-jiwire/

From GigaOm:

The number of free wireless hotspots in the U.S. outnumber paid Wi-Fi locations for the first time, with 55.1 percent of public Wi-Fi locations available at no charge, according to a report from JiWire, an advertising company that focuses marketing specifically through Wi-Fi networks.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180479/Stupid_data_center_tricks

From CW:

According to the Uptime Institute, a New York-based research and consulting organization that focuses on data-center performance, human error causes roughly 70% of the problems that plague data centers today. The group analyzed 4,500 data-center incidents, including 400 full downtime events, says Julian Kudritzki, a vice president at the Uptime Institute, which recently published a set of guidelines for operational sustainability of data centers.