Microsoft Windows DirectX SAMI Code Execution

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I was invited by Intel to attend the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, 19th - 21st August 2008. I also received a list of sessions and people available for meetings and round tables - I am looking forward to meeting Anand Chandrasekher (below), Intel Ultra Mobility Group Senior Vice President, in a round table.

Other topics of interest are of course the technology showcase, anything about mobile computing, and the keynotes - Steve Wozniak will be the guest speaker on the 21st August.

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Microsoft ActiveX Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.  Targeted exploitation was reported on July 7, but X-Force has been monitoring toolkit-related mass exploitation since July 10.  As of July 24, exploitation has continued to escalate.  See technical description for more details. Read More

I spent today at the IBM Forum 2008. A good event overall, with a refreshing departure from last year's focus on Second Life.

The keynote with Ray Avery, CEO Medicine Mondiale was really interesting and showed how individual actions can make a difference.

The big focus this year was of course in virtualisation and cloud computing. I managed to attend a few sessions, meeting some people around the marketplace and had a good time overall.

Here are the Tweets I sent from this event:

http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883524639 
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883533135
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883533680
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883535248
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http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883565077
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883568708
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883625439
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883627757
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883646554
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883650196
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883650989
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883652494
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883717893
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883723367
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883758964
http://twitter.com/freitasm/statuses/883795061

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