Thứ Ba, 28 tháng 9, 2010

"Issue #41 is out, and as usual, we’ve got lots of great stuff for you. We’ve got an overview of running Windows apps on Ubuntu, a feature on running a business with Ubuntu, more interviews, how-tos, and everything else in between!This month:- Command and Conquer. - How-To : Program in Python – Part 15, Virtualize Part 4 – FreeBSD, and Run A Business With Ubuntu. - Review – TuxGuitar. - Top 5 –

Chủ Nhật, 26 tháng 9, 2010

The new router sorted the problem out, so all sites are now functioning properly again. My apologies for the disruption folks.References:http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2010/09/hphosts-network-issue.html

Thứ Bảy, 25 tháng 9, 2010

An issue has been identified that's causing extreme slow connections to the hpHosts network, affecting;hosts-file.netforum.hosts-file.netverify.hosts-file.net*.mysteryfcm.co.ukfspamlist.comforum.abelhadigital.comAmongst others. I've ruled out the majority of the internal hardware, and suspect an external issue (will be speaking to the ISP once I've ruled out the rest of the hardware).Apologies

Thứ Năm, 23 tháng 9, 2010

There's a new release of the SBST (Spambot Search Tool) folks. This is a bug fix release to give me more time for the re-write and move to it's own dedicated domain (more on that in due course).Download:Homepage:

Thứ Tư, 22 tháng 9, 2010

hpHOSTS - UPDATED September 22nd, 2010The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 125,866 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! Latest Updated: 22/09/2010 19:30Last Verified: 22/09/2010 17:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Thứ Ba, 21 tháng 9, 2010

We all know that marketing depts will try almost every trick in the book to get people to take notice of their company and whatever products or services are on offer, but there are certain companies out there that need to get their acts together, as the type of marketing being used is highly misleading at best.Hot on the heels of CheckPoint's scareware, I came across an affiliate that was leading

Chủ Nhật, 19 tháng 9, 2010

I received a rather strange e-mail earlier, quite obviously spam, but strange none the less.Why strange you ask?, well when an e-mail arrives and the subject contains the words "exclusive movies", it's usually going to be one of two things - fake meds, or malware. In this case however, there's a bunch of links to .rar files hosted at filesonic.com. The details of one of the e-mails (I've received

Thứ Sáu, 17 tháng 9, 2010

Zone Alarm has long been considered a good product to have on your PC by some (never liked it myself personally, but that's just me), so imagine everyones surprise when the developers of ZoneAlarm decide to use scareware tactics.There's been a rash of complaints on the Zone Alarm forums, amongst other places, concerning a dialog that's been popping up (see top left), with information about a

Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 9, 2010

Ever wonder whether posting what you're doing, where you're going, and when, was a bad idea or not? Wonder no more. Not sure about anyone else (though sure I'm not the only one), but I've told people for years not to announce this kind of information anywhere, especially online - and have largely been ignore.I'll not bother saying "I told you so", I'll just point you to this instead (and nope -
Parents and teens now have access to a free downloadable e-book from Microsoft called “Own Your Space,” which aims to instruct teens and other new internet users how to stay safe while online. Specifically, the book addresses common security threats like phishing scams as well as modern-day social issues like cyber-bullying and cyber-stalking.http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/

Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 9, 2010

The newly discovered IMDDOS Botnet is a commercial DDoS service. The botnet grew large very quickly. Beginning testing in April 2010, it reached a production peak activity by the second week of August of 25,000 unique recursive DNS lookups/hour to the command-and-control (CnC) servers.This paper details the growth of the IMDDOS Botnet, the commercial aspects of its operation, the technical

Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 9, 2010

Before you read this, just an FYI folks, I know the hpHosts release is a little late, this is due to my being down the other end of the country between Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th. I'm now expecting to have a release out by Thursday/Friday.Over the course of the last few weeks, our malware sandboxes have analyzed several interesting specimens with malicious activities that include the making of

Thứ Sáu, 3 tháng 9, 2010

We've all got very old machines that we'd love to use, but sadly, they won't run newer versions of Windows and indeed, newer versions of some Linux distro's. Thankfully there's someone out there that has seen fit to work on a Linux based distribution for this very purpose (time to pick out my 486 hehe (did also have a Victor from 1981, but some idiot threw that out)).http://pupweb.org/wikka/