HostExploit: Top Bad Hosts

HostExploit has provided a facility that now allows you to see which of the ISP's currently online, are within their list of the worlds worst. Names you'll currently see include Velcom, Netelligent, ZHM, NetDirect, Neval etc etc etc.Take a peek, and pop over to their new SiteVet (well, new to me anyway) site, which provides extensive details (some details only provided if you pay a fee apparently

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Crimeware friendly ISP's: RETN-AS (AS9002)

You may be asking yourself, why are RETN-AS being listed as crimeware friendly? Well, to keep this short and simple, I'll tell you - NET-UA-AS limited corp (AS40965 195.95.151.0/24) and SOFTNET (AS50073 193.104.110.0/24 SOFTNET Software Service Prague s.r.o.).The SOFTNET range was first seen in November 2009, and ever since then, has served nothing but exploits, rogues, and other malicious

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raktor.net de-listed

raktor.net has been de-listed folks.I hate being human sometimes :o(

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hpHosts update delayed

Just a note folks, due to the machine that was processing the database (determines which are alive, and which are not), deciding it wanted to crash during the saving process, the latest hpHosts release will be delayed for a few days.On a brighter note, I've now got the mail server onto a new (well old PIII) dedicated machine, and config'd/tested, so I can now send e-mail again - yipee!.

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Network downtime

Alas poor yorik, tis not my week .... not content with the motherboard in the Intranet/vURL server dying, the HDD suffered a death in the gateway server, rendering access to the network impossible. I've got the gateway back online on a temporary machine, but still have to re-build the mail server (going to have to talk to Alt-N about that).

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vURL Online and Intranet server

Due to an as yet unknown fault, the vURL and Intranet server, is currently offline. I'm suspecting a hardware fault at this point as it's not picked up on the KVM anymore, which suggests a fried graphics card/motherboard.Sadly, I'll not be home until Tuesday, but have someone working on sorting it out for me./editSadly, it's been confirmed that the servers motherboard has fried, so I'll have to

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Full Circle Magazine: Issue 32

At the writing of this post, it’s new year’s for most of the world (and definitely will be by the time most of you read this). Not only is it a new year, it’s a new decade full of promises for the computing world and the world at large. I hope you’ve enjoyed our foray into Ubuntu and Linux for the past few years. Here’s to many more!That being said, what better way to start off a new year than

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