Comcast.net was hijacked Wednesday night, and all traffic going to their site was redirected to a series of different sites throughout the night.
Wired.com spoke with the two crackers, Defiant and EBK, which are associated the crack group Kryogeniks. They say the attack began Tuesday when they used a little bit of social engineering, along […]
So, a new botnet, at least twice the size of the StormWorm botnet has emerged, and seems to be taking anti-virus and anti-malware companies for a ride of its own. Kraken has infiltrated over 400,000 machines, has been seen in over 50 Fortune 500 Companies, and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running […]
Every year at the CanSecWest conference in Canada, there is a Pwn2Own Competition where if you can hack it, you can keep it…along with a little bit of money. All the vulnerabilities involved need to be original, and they cannot be publicized until after the software vendor has had the chance to patch the vulnerability. […]
I found this article online this morning, and just had to post it. It’s all true, and yet so obvious that it’s a wonder that more people aren’t doing this…or that I haven’t done it yet.
It’s no secret that tech-savvy computer users typically become the go-to guy for all technical help in their circles. More […]
I just found out that IE6 and IE7 render my blog differently. Turns out if I have a gigantic picture that doesn’t fit on the screen, IE7 reduces the size of the picture to the size of your browser window, and IE6 keeps the original picture size, and cuts off most of my blog. Thats […]
I know I haven’t done one of these types of posts in awhile…where I try to promote free open-source software, but I came across this article yesterday and just had to post on it. It’s pretty cool how simple some of this stuff is with Linux, where it’s a lot more difficult with Windows, or […]
I know what you are thinking…”What happened? Is everything all right?” Luckily, my health is in good condition, with the exception of some slightly high blood pressure after the turn of events throughout the last week. It turns out the backups I had of some of my EXTREMELY important data on my portable hard drive […]
One night a couple years ago, when I was working graveyard shift at IBM, I was browsing the internet, and came across a Unix/Linux SysAdmin displaying his thoughts on the War on Terror. The entertaining thing about this is that it’s not your typical propaganda, or some sort of bashing on any one side. He […]
As an IT professional, commonly known as a “geek” in other circles, I have seen my fair share of switch and server rooms. One thing that always seems to stick out is how they have to organize, or lack there of, the network cables. A well organized server room helps out with troubleshooting network problems, […]
So, as many of you know…one of the main reasons I decided to stay in Kuwait for a second year is so that I can get ahead of the game financially, buy a new car, and buy a house. Well, for a while now, I have been looking at the Cadillac CTS as my car […]