So here’s the sumup of my (now working and with plenty of free space) Windows XP install within QEMU. Well, for starters the XP disc I had was an upgrade disc and as I noted before it did not like the media I provided as proof of upgradability. So, I wound up having to go the really long route… The Windows98 SE install would not upgrade to XP for me. Bad install errors that were dealt with by knowledge base articles, but the KB fixes did not solve the problem.
Tag: updates
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Another Massive ID theft ring
It looks like Sunbelt has found ANOTHER massive Identity theft ring. They suspect it’s a trojan from the Dumaru family that is contentedly logging the infromation and promise more details.
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Saturday updates
I haven’t done much the past couple Saturday’s update-wise, but there are a few items I expect to give a few updates on this afternoon.
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Zero Day explorer update again
There doesn’t seem much new on this front, but… The register is talking about it., US-CERT says the exploit code is publicly available, although Microsoft says they’re not aware of any attacks. And Secunia has an advisory (I’m not sure, I may have mentioned the Secunia advisory earlier.)
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Another update on the 0day Explorer exploit
Well, it looks like quite a bit took place while I was out on the “zero day exploit front”. It looks as though there is another update at The Sans Institute. The first thing to notice is that they’ve raised their alert level to Yellow over the impending active exploitation of this vulnerability.
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Linux home office best practices
Desktoplinux has the second in their series of Best Practices for the Linux Home Office. This time around they talk about security (updates, turning off unneeded services) and choosing an ISP.
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Infocon Green and apple updates
The Sans institute (incidents.org) has returned to infocon green. Explaining that there are no fundamentally new variations on the exploits that were circulating and the situation is fairly static. (No big moves in infected machines/port scanning activity.) Also, they note that Apple has released several updates. They effect 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 The updates can be found at Apple support.
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Late in updates
I haven’t covered anything this morning mainly because I’ve been fighting with a Windows XP install. I’ll give details on it later. I think I’m finally in the last stages of that and will try to do some updates while I wait. It is bogging down the system a bit. (The install is into a virtual hard drive via qemu).
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Zotob updates
A couple of late afternoon updates at the handlers diary at incidents.org (sans institute). For starters, it looks like there may be a variation of zotob that has a mass mailer included. I didn’t specifically see this in SARC’s writeups of zotob.a or zotob.b, so, I’m wondering if this is going to be a .c? This variant connects to the same IRC server as the others, but a different channel. (The IRC connection was to allow remote control.)
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Summary of the windows patches
Over at the Sans Institute (incidents.org), they have a round up of yesterdays windows updates a summary of their severity and some details about some of the problems (one had an invalid signature and had to be re-posted.)