Chủ Nhật, 7 tháng 11, 2010

Oh joy. As if BT hadn't made things horrid to begin with, with outages sporadically over the past few weeks, it seems something has gone awry again today.Unfortunately, whilst the primary hpHosts server seems to be working, the rest are not, nor is the mail server (has a motherboard issue). I've done what I can from here, but won't actually have direct access to the servers until later this

Thứ Sáu, 5 tháng 11, 2010

Recent reports from various sources in the security industry show that a large takedown of servers associated with the “Bredolab” trojan occurred within the past few weeks. While most of the reports have focused around the idea that this infrastructure was solely related to the command and control of Bredolab, our research shows that these servers were used as an all-purpose hosting

Thứ Bảy, 30 tháng 10, 2010

Alot has been publicized regarding malicious hosts, both by myself and many others. Of course, in the cybercrime world, along with campaigns to infect you, the criminals are also fighting with each other, to out-do each other.ASs such as AlfaHost (AS50793), Ecatel (AS29073), GlobalNET (AS42560), VLineTelecom (AS39150), ALTNET-LV (AS41390), Akrino Inc (AS44571), VolgaHost (Bondarenko Dmitriy

Thứ Tư, 27 tháng 10, 2010

A while ago now, I was asked to test AnchorFree's "Hotspot Shield", to determine whether or not it did what it claimed. I've had no contact with their software or website ever since, and as such, was rather shocked this morning when an e-mail came through to an e-mail address I'd only ever used for them (was a tracked e-mail address), pointing me to a fake Adobe site.This e-mail from
I do sometimes wonder what some of the folks over at Microsoft are smoking. Sure, they're mostly obsessed with "social media" (aka social networking - YUCK!), but this does not excuse their trying to push things like this down my throat.Take Windows live Essentials 2011 for example, I'm not annoyed it's being pushed through MU (Microsoft Update), it's a Microsoft product and WLM is installed.

Thứ Hai, 25 tháng 10, 2010

hpHOSTS - UPDATED October 25th, 2010The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 125,886 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 25/10/2010 16:00Last Verified: 24/10/2010 18:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Thứ Sáu, 22 tháng 10, 2010

Okay, so Surftown (or the sites actual owner), have finally cleaned the first site I reported (simple-tea.dk), but what about the rest?At the time of writing this, there are hundreds of sites on 212.97.132.0/24 (Surftown IP range), and SurfTown whilst having been notified of this by myself, and others, have yet to do anything to either suspend or cleanup the sites, let alone prevent it happening