An article from the Register by Mark Burnett of SecurityFocus has me thinking about Windows Servers. We all know that most hosting servers for websites and ftp servers are Linux-based servers. But Microsoft has been pushing their new Windows Server…
I take back some of things I had thought about our friends across the Atlantic. A French Appeal Court ruled that a countryman who downloaded 500 movies via P2P was within his rights because he used them for private viewing,…
We have discussed the problem of older operating systems and security here many times, now it’s great to see that Microsoft has released two critical updates for Windows 98 and WinMe users. You can learn more about the patches at…
Well the nightmare that all of us geeks feared the most, happened this morning. I walked into my office and found that it had been broken into. The computers were all taken and the printers, copier and some accessories were…
Telecommunications provider, Madison River Communications, was chastised by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week and required to unblock network ports that were closed to prevent connections from customers using Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone connections.
Linuxense.com has started a new server break-in challenge to begin tomorrow, March 9th. If you can keep a server up for 48 hours without interruption, you win an active shell account to play with. No big bucks, or prizes, just a simple…
If the Canadian government has their way, a new proposal called “lawful access” will force Canada’s service providers to refit their networks to allow real-time interception of communications. This would also allow multiple interception of communications and they would provide…