by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Honeynet Project blog is carrying an article about a new botnet that appears to be a revival of the Storm Worm network that died out in 2007 — once one of the biggest on the Internet.They said Steven Adair from Shadowserver found that the new botware uses...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Narcissistic Vulnerability Pimps”Is it just my perception or are there a diminishing number of good rants on the Internet?“Admin” on the Verizon Security Blog posted a really great one last week that deserves comment.“Admin” is David Kennedy who has been with the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Finders keepers” isn’t exactly a legal conceptMany bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confiscated computers, servers and other equipment, probably as a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Make big money! $.80 to $1.20 per 1,000People in China, Bangladesh and China are bidding on jobs solving CAPTCHAS so spammers can create new email accounts, but the work is a bit tedious, according to a story in the New York Times. Many brokers and middlemen who...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s not the Mayan calendar – it’s the end of address space that could do us in.IPv4 addressing protocol (32 bits) allows for four billion IP addresses. You’d think that four billion of anything would be enough, but it isn’t. It’s predicted that some time in the...
