Be careful searching for Top Gear episodes

Love Top Gear? I do to, can't wait for Sundays and Wednesdays, and tend to watch it on Dave through the week (seen them all hundreds of times since they're repeated around 5 times a day, but bah, there's normally nothing else on anyway). However, if you're searching for Top Gear episodes (thought everyone knew the official URL (http://bbc.co.uk/topgear), but obviously not), then you may find

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Security: Could you recover your valuables if they were stolen?

There's lots been written on security for your machines and networks, be it routers, PCs, laptops, netbooks, iPads, Androids and Blackberrys and the likes - but all the security in the world isn't going to help you if these actually get stolen, either through a break-in or pick pocketing or the likes.Are you prepared for this? Could you tell the police how to identify and track your items, should

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Part 11: Renos on the move

The chaps behind Renos are on the move again as of today, this time to Russia based, Eurobyte Llc (AS35415), or best known, as a customer of Webazilla. Both known bulletproof hosting.New domain as of 30 mins ago, is through UK2 (surprise surprise), though there's been one prior to that, through DirectI (suspended a few mins after being reported);fileyourextension.net/New-Video-Addon.48560.exeIP:

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Part 10: Renos on the move (previously: Interserver, malware, and the Scottish weather)

I phoned HostNOC/Burst around an hour ago, regarding an IP that had been serving Renos for a while, and stayed on the phone until it was suspended. Expecting them to move to a new IP rather quickly, but sadly had to pop to the shops. Getting back however, I wasn't to be disappointed. The chaps behind Renos (still don't know who that is, but am working on it), had moved to a new IP yet again,

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Part 9: Interserver, malware, and the Scottish weather

I love predictability, makes my job much easier (well, as far as these chaps are concerned anyway). 3 IPs as of today, same registrars (surprise surprise);UK2DirectINetEarthOne of the IPs is the same as yesterday (errr Burst.net/HostNOC - what happened to your 24 hour warning?).66.197.187.152 immovable.detectstakes.com AS21788 66.197.128.0/17 NOC - Network Operations Center Inc.193.105.171.120

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Part 8: Interserver, malware, and the Scottish weather

Well, I said it would happen and it has - my friends at Leaseweb finally nulled the server housing Renos, and as with their previous pattern - they're back to HostNOC/Burst.They're now using 66.197.187.152 (latest domain: worldmediaplugins.org), same registrars and infection, so nothing else to report I'm afraid. As far as UK2 and DomainContext, the latter is still failing to reply, and I'm

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Part 7: Interserver, malware, and the Scottish weather

Looks like they're on the move to a new host, this time it's Leaseweb (Rob and Jottie will hopefully be getting it down shortly, so they shouldn't be there long). As of a few minutes ago, the latest Renos domain is pointing to;82.192.79.49The URL;makepan.in/New-Video-Addon.48563.exeReferencesPart 5a: Interserver, malware, and the Scottish weatherhttp://hphosts.blogspot.com/2011/06/part-5-

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