Spammer caught in the Act!
Entertaining read on the capture of a 419 e-mail spammer caught in the act. It is a bit dramatic but could be the real deal. [www.linux.ie]
Is your Medical and Financial Data outsourced to a Foreign Country
There are very specific laws in the United States that protect you medical and financial records. But what happens when your medical and financial information is managed overseas. A very shocking special report today has been released discussing an event…
Just what does a DOS attack cost you?
Sites that get hit with a DOS attack have more to worry about than the availability of their site. Someone has to pay for all of that bandwidth and sites like spywareinfo.com which are generally supported thru donations and banner…
RIAA website remains cold Iron
Seems the RIAA has not had very good luck in fighting off denial of service attacks. If consumer complaints would be as effective they would be out of business. [Netcraft]
Extremely bad worm stopped before destroying hard-drives
A unknown number of computers had their hard-drive data destroyed by a very bad worm that targets users of BlackIce and RealSecure security products. A update to the software was released nearly 12 days ago and systems should have been…
Germans Crackdown on Pirates
In some of the largest tech raids in German history more than 750 pirate sites have been raided. I have always said if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime. [ZDNet]
Port Knocking
I read tonight for the first time about Port Knocking. Seems Linux users have a way to keep the firewalls closed for a specific port unless the connector has the correct passcode by detecting connections to closed ports. So if…