Sunbeltblog has another entry in the continuing story. Really, there is not much new here, but iDefense has analyzed the code of the trojan that was discovered and have stated that it is not related to CoolWebSearch. (Which is what sunbeltblog has been saying for some time.) They initially said it was discovered during a coolwebsearch infestation.
Tag: time
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Qemu revisited
I mentioned Qemu a short while back. I’ve used it in the past for testing linux livecds. After doing the writeup though I was encouraged to look at it again and see if/how much it’s improved since I last got an update. Wow….
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High MPG hybrid car (250 Miles per gallon)
I think I first saw these stories Friday night, but several places are reporting on various efforts to modify current hybrid vehicles to squeeze higher mileage out of them. This is the true spirit of “hacking” in some ways. It looks that by adding extra batteries (and recharging those off of house mains), there’s one individual that can get 80 miles per gallon. Others have claimed up to 250 Miles per gallon
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The junk that you will find in web access logs
If you have a website, you likely will look at your logs from time to time to see just who or how many people are visiting your site. I’ve certainly looked at a lot of logfiles both for my site and for others and thought I’d pass along some things you will likely see. For starters you are likely to see requests for pages that don’t exist. Even if you’ve never made changes to your site, you may see requests for files like (more…)
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NY requires businesses to disclose security breaches.
The Register writes that New York has passed a law that will require local government agencies and businesses to disclose security breaches. (System broken into or data stolen). I can understand businesses being reluctant to disclose this kind of information. “What will they say about us”, “bad reputation”, “we’ll lose customers”, the thoughts could go on. However, there are some people that respect a business that is up front about a problem like this.
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Firefox Security Vulnerabilities.
In the spirit of a fair look at Mozilla Firefox (after doing a bit of a roasting of IE’s security), I’ve taken a look at Secunia’s analysis of Firefox. Currently there are 3 unpatched vulnerabilities on Firefox.
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IE too dangerous to use?
In all fairness this is a year old news release from US-CERT. Beware of IE, certainly there have been patches for IE since this release (3 this week.) But have all of the issues they raise been dealt with? According to Secunia there are still 20 advisories related to Internet Explorer that are unpatched.
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Linux desktop rallying cry
Over at Desktop Linux there’s an opinion piece that’s really a rallying cry for the linux desktop. He looks at what is promised in Vista and tries to discern what will really be different than we currently have on the Windows platform. Looks at the potential expense and concludes that now is the time for linux vendors to REALLY be making a push.
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OpenSuSE 10 beta 1 screenshots
Osdir.com is at it again with the screenshots…., this time there’s a lizard on the desktop. Yes, screenshots from openSuSe 10 beta 1. Just several days ago Novell announced that they were “opening” the SuSE Linux project and the first beta was not far behind.
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Anti-phishing tool
I had run across a link that netcraft was trying to combat phishing schemes and I didn’t have time for a detailed look at the time. I’ve since revisited and found their Netcraft toolbar. I’m impressed, it installs in either Internet Explorer (under Windows), or Mozilla Firefox (all platforms.)