Thứ Ba, 31 tháng 8, 2010

Just a note folks, the competition ends today, so if you're taking part in the competition (i.e. haven't went straight for the PTAC instead), get those entries in;http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2077

Chủ Nhật, 29 tháng 8, 2010

It’s hard to believe, but we’re already at issue 40! We’ve got a lot of great stuff for you in this issue, including a spiffy new logo redesign by Thorsten Wilms. You might also notice a slight font change-that’s the new (official) Ubuntu font.This month:- Command and Conquer. - How-To : Program in Python – Part 14, Virtualize Part 3 – OpenSolaris, and ADSL Modem As A Switch. - Review – SOFA

Thứ Tư, 25 tháng 8, 2010

I've mentioned Sagade Ltd before, it's a totally Black Hat Latvian network that should be blocked on sight. Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic for this range is fairly damning:....There's very little point playing whack-a-mole with these Latvian IP addresses. It's probably worth null-routing the entire country until some government agency that isn't being paid off by Russian organised criminals
Just a reminder for those of you taking part - there's less than a week left to get your comments and suggestions finalised and posted!http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2077
Latvia is definitely becoming a problem when it comes to black hat hosting. The 159.148.117.0/24 range (159.148.117.0 - 159.148.117.255) is another malicious block, forming part of AS2588 belonging to Latnet (similar to microlines.lv). At a rough calculation, roughly half the IP address ranges I am currently blocking are based in Latvia.This bunch of domains is a mix of fake pharma sites, browser

Thứ Sáu, 20 tháng 8, 2010

AdvancedDefrag.com has now been de-listed, after a test of their latest version showed it no longer met the inclusion criteria (the major improvement to their software is that their trial version, is actually a trial now, not a demo).After years of bundling the Swizzor trojan (created by Patchou so I'm told), Patchou/Yuna Software, have finally removed Swizzor from their MessengerPlus installer.

Thứ Sáu, 13 tháng 8, 2010

Just a note folks, the server housing surl.co.uk, avantbrowser.com, forum.avantbrowser.com and it-mate.co.uk amongst others, is unreachable at present. I'm trying to get through to the host to find out what's going on as I can't reach Anderson (servers owner) at present.Checking a few other IPs on the same /24 suggests this may actually be a problem internal to the superb.net network. I'll update

Thứ Năm, 12 tháng 8, 2010

Spamhaus has uncovered a fake spam filter company which was pirating and selling DNSBL data stolen from major anti-spam systems including Spamhaus, CBL and SURBL, republishing the stolen data under the name "nszones.com". Nszones operates a 'remove your IP' scam charging naive internet users to be removed from the pirated nszones DNSBLs. Nszones also attempts to sell 'commercial subscriptions' to

Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 8, 2010

Just a note folks. This morning, the PSU in the fSpamlist server decided to die, having popped in a replacement it appears the death decided to cause some corruption whilst it was at it.I've got the machine running a check on the partitions as I write this, and hope to have the server back online within the next few hours. In the meantime, please accept my apologies./edit 09:19The server is now
Like free? Like Paragon Software products? Good!I am pleased to announce, with special thanks to Paragon Software, I've got 15 licences to give away for their Virtualization Manager 2010 Professional software.So what do you need to do? Well, all you need to do, is try Go Virtual, which is the free version of VM 2010 Professional, and post your findings regarding it (thinks you like, things you

Thứ Ba, 10 tháng 8, 2010

Those of you investigating cybercrime will already be aware of eNom/DemandMedia and their involvement in such, and I'm pleased to announce the publication of a report concerning AS21740 and their involvement in cybercrime, by HostExploit.As part of a series of reports on ‘Cybercrime USA’, HostExploit presents a detailed analysis on Demand Media/eNom’s position as #1 Bad Host in the HE Index of

Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 8, 2010

Many have been writing about this topic lately, including myself and not surprisingly, as quick as we're having the domains and IPs nuked, they're bringing up new ones. My good friend David over at Eset, has thrown a ton of information together for you to digest - and if you've got time spare (or perhaps, meet with other parents when taking the kids to school or whatnot), see if you can have a
Checking up on the A records for Pegas, I noticed something that seemed odd. The NS records for ns1.pegas-dns.org were pointing to ns1.hosts-file.net and ns2.hosts-file.net - but this obviously isn't right (for starters, there are no ns1 and ns2 on the hosts-file.net DNS, and secondly, I own hosts-file.net).Thinking it could've just been a quirk or some such, with the site I was using to do the

Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 8, 2010

I hope you chaps and chapesses have some free time on the 10th, as you've got 14 bulletins to contend with, and the vast majority require a reboot. Most are for Windows, but as usual, there's other stuff thrown in such as Silverlight and Office.Those of you looking after networks will already be using something like WSUS to manage these, so just skip straight to the info itself.If you're a

Thứ Tư, 4 tháng 8, 2010

I'm a bit late in posting this but, better late than never.That’s right, Full Circle issue 39 is out! We’ve got a review of the iRobot iPad Android tablet, talk about virtualizing Fedora, virtual memory, new interviews, and more! (Oh, and we seem to have the recurring theme of ’13′ in our articles.)This month:- Command and Conquer.- How-To : Program in Python – Part 13, Virtualize – Fedora 13,