Classic Tech Tips Archive

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. They did g…

No, virustotal is not the name of the latest greatest bug circulating. It's the name of a website that gives you the opportunity to submit a suspicious file and let them scan with multiple virus engi…

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.

Screenshots are avialable for the second beta of OpenSuse 10 (codenamed Boston). More details on some of the "major changes" are available at distrowatch, or at the OpenSuSe web site. Among the "majo…

Newsforge has the third article in their series on Best Practices for the Linux Home Office. The main highlighs in this entry are RAID and backups and disaster recovery. The point should be taken as …

I saw something about this last week but held off until I could read a bit more. It seems that the Beta version of Windows Vista (the successor to XP) has a feature enabled by default that has caught…

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…

According to alvarezperea.com, it appears that the writer was told by an employee of the havoc the worm wrecked on the theme park. It seems that most everything is computer controlled from ticket sal…

I hadn't seen this, but Slashdot is reporting that the national weather service is experimenting with RSS feeds for Weather alerts and their forecasts. Neat, I've already setup a feed for the local w…

There is a report that a virus shut down the computer systems at US Customs. This made for long slow manual check for travelers entering the U.S. Thursday night is when this took place at a number of…

This is one of those projects I've been tempted to undertake for some time... Newsforge has an article on Linux on the Linksys wireless WRT54G and WRT54GS routers. The distribution designed for it is…

So, I've talked a good deal about phishing scam emails and I had to read when I found this article at the sunbeltblog. They posted a link to a site with some tips on phishing, as well as a "test your…

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…

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.

Yesterday I mentioned a SANS report on a possible zero day exploit against Internet Explorer. Today they have more details in the handlers diary. Among other things SANS has issued a patch for it. Es…

I just read that Microsoft has released an update to the Malicious software removal tool. The updated version is not yet available at Windows or Microsoft update, but from Microsoft's download center…

With impeccable timing.... Desktop Linux is reporting that Resolvo systems has released their "MoveOver Enterprise" desktop migration tool to assist migrating from Windows to Linux in the Enterprise.…

I've been reading the sunbeltblog lately and they have a post related to this latest virus outbreak which is right to the point. Most corporate desktops run Windows 2000 as opposed to Windows XP and …

The folks over at The Sans Institute (Incidents.org) are reporting on a possible zero-day ( 0-day ) exploit against Microsoft Internet Explorer. (A zero day exploit is the name given to an exploit of…

I remember very well the competing worms that came out in early 2004, Netsky and Bagel (Beagle) and to a degree Mydoom as well. One would try to uninstall the other as they fought for control of a pc…

Well, I alluded yesterday to a struggle with installing Windows XP under Qemu. Here are some details on the long and (still winding) road. At this point I have a working XP install running under Qemu…

Wednesday afternoon and Esbot is up to revision .B, Zotob is up to G according to Sarc (Symantec antivirus research). They have appropriate removal tools and details on affected systems there. Meanwh…

There is a Newsforge article talking about "Best Practices for the Linux home office". They cover a lot of ground for the newcomer to linux. But some of their advice is excellent for computing in gen…

According to The Register among other sources, there is a vulnerability in all Acrobat and Reader software prior to the following safe release numbers: Windows and Mac Reader users please install 7.0…

This is an ironic title because frankly, Microsoft has seemed to be slow in solutions for the recent zotob worm. Of course, they announced the vulnerability and accompanying update to solve the issue…