Yeah, everyone has stolen Wi-Fi at one point or another, but not everyone has called into a tech show in order to complain about the fact that someone put the kibosh on said stealing.
Meet Jennifer, she had been unwittingly yoinking Wi-Fi for more than a year and a half when the gravy train ran out, [...]
“The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading “in the wild” in Australia.”http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8349905.stm
Boy am I glad I got a Droid, Baldy
Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone
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Sooner Boomer writes “Nigerian police in what is named Operation ‘Eagle Claw’ have shut down 800 scam web sites, and arrested members of 18 syndicates behind the fraudulent scam sites. Reports on Breitbart.com and Pointblank give details on the busts. The investigation was done in cooperation with Microsoft, to help develop smart technology software capable [...]
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Enviornment) is a tool to check the file integrity. It is an opensource substitute for TRIPWIRE. It allows to take snapshots of all the major configuration files, binaries as well as libraries stats. It helps to find which binaries have been changed in case of compromisation of the system.
Nice little [...]
Conficker is one nasty Virus! It is able to spread on the LAN, infect other machines, and even auto-update itself! Learn how scan your network using the open-source nmap tool, and identify machines which are possible infected with Conficker
Hey it is late but it works just fine and great to show those at the [...]
The Psyb0t worm infects Linux-based routers, including consumer-level broadband routers, and turns them into botnet nodes. Psyb0t finds easy entry because they are misconfigured. Eric Geier tells how to find out if you are infected and what to do about it, and gives sound advice that is pertinent to all routers.
Pay Attention folks this [...]
As Linux sysadmins, many of us still need to deal with Windows worms and how they affect our networks. Today is April 1st, and the Conficker worm will be activating on vulnerable computers everywhere. Here’s a quick HOW-TO showing how you can detect compromised and/or vulnerable computers on your network:read more
You might learn something [...]
At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, hackers were invited to find and exploit holes in modern browsers. A popular target for hackers at this year’s conference was Safari on a Mac — definitely the lowest hanging fruit.
Charlie Miller explains that it’s not whether a product has holes (all of them do), its how [...]
A worm has been used to build a botnet consisting of DSL routers running Linux, which may be still evolving, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.
After becoming infected, the network of routers was used to launch a denial-of-service attack earlier in March against DroneBL, an organisation that maintains a DNS blacklist. Sans Institute [...]
VANCOUVER, BC — Charlie Miller has done it again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser.
“It took a couple of seconds. They clicked on the link and I took control of the machine,” Miller said moments [...]
