Thứ Sáu, 21 tháng 1, 2011

hpHOSTS - UPDATED January 21st, 2011The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 122,616 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 21/01/2011 16:50Last Verified: 21/01/2011 10:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Thứ Năm, 20 tháng 1, 2011

Due to an issue with my mail server, I am currently experiencing problems sending replies, and receiving new e-mail. I thought I'd pinned down the cause to a queue issue with the server, but apparently not.If you're awaiting a reply from me, please be patient whilst I try and resolve the problem.Please be advised, this issue affects all sites using the server aswell (inclusive of the hpHosts

Thứ Hai, 17 tháng 1, 2011

I've had a reply from Heart Internet, regarding the latest list sent to them (still verifying what's going on about the first few lists);We've identified how it's happened, and we are going to clean the sites very soon.I'd like to point out that they're all the result of compromised personal Windows machines (ie, people's home desktop which have viruses). No machine of Heart Internet's has been

Thứ Bảy, 15 tháng 1, 2011

I was pointed to a site earlier, that provided nothing but links to malicious sites. Presumably the sites sole intention is for search engines to crawl it. What was interesting is it didn't have all of the links on one page - you had to keep refreshing it. Very boring and time consuming, so I wrote a program to do it for me.Refreshing it 1000 times brought a list of over 800 unique sites involved
Remember the attack on other hosting companies by the blackhat SEO gang? Well now they've moved to attacking Heart Internet customers - and they're doing a pretty damn good job of it too.The problem here isn't actually the bad guys so much as it is Heart Internet themselves (and yes, the bad guys are of course the primary problem as they're the ones doing it). Heart Internet have had alot of

Thứ Bảy, 8 tháng 1, 2011

Whilst investigating a site earlier, I stumbled upon a site claiming to be a vanilla porn site. Not surprisingly, it turned out to be slightly more than that.This site offers its victims the usual player you're used to seeing on the likes of YouTube - with a major difference. Instead of the fake codec, or actual video, an HTA is downloaded and executed, that contains;