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From the Google Code Blog: Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster, we are announcing Google Public DNS, a new experimental public DNS resolver. The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the Internet’s “phone book”. Every time you visit a website, your computer performs a [...]

From ISC SANS: Roseman tells us of updates to the popular Sysinternals toolkit.  This round includes updates to the utilities: VMMap, Disk2vhd,  Sigcheck,  Autoruns,  PsExec and PsKill. The Disk2vhd update is the one I find most interesting – they’ve updated it to fix the kernel and HAL during the migrate, to make migrated VHDs bootable [...]

I’ve seen this around a few places and finally decided to post it.  After having my WoW account hacked twice, I hope they hang this guy by his fingernails.   From Dark Reading: For the first time, a hacker has been arrested in the U.K. for stealing players’ identities, skills, weapons, and virtual money in an [...]

In my current environment, the storage and use of administrator passwords is a sensitive subject.  Luckily ISC SANS has started a robust discussion about the practice. I’m confident in saying that every IT environment has this problem.  You have passwords for service accounts, printers, switches, routers, firewalls, admin passwords for products, build passwords when building servers or [...]

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Anyone that’s ever been on a SORBS blocklist knows my pain… While migrating from one spam filter to another, we started to notice some wierd bounces.  At first we assumed it was a configuration issue with our new service, but I started to dig around a bit.  First stop was MX Toolbox, which has some [...]

From Dark Reading: Several high-profile hacks over the past year including those at Heartland, Hannaford Bros., and 7-11, all have had one thing in common: they were launched with a SQL injection attack. Cross-site scripting (XSS) had been the king of Web attack techniques for some time, and for good reason — the ability to [...]

From Security Focus: A botnet that has infected a few hundred computers in Brazil has turned a Twitter feed into a channel for disseminating links to computer systems compromised by the bot program, a researcher with networking firm Arbor Networks said on Thursday. The bot, which is detected by only 44 percent of antivirus engines [...]

With the new job, laptops  strewn about the house and the need to shuffle files between locations, I’ve been looking around for a good way to share files.  Normally, I’ve used Hamachi to transfer files between my computers but I didn’t want to install that on my work machines.   Luckily for me, Tech Crunch has [...]

From Dark Reading: It used to be that Internet service providers (ISPs) kept either a low profile or a hands-off approach to bot infections in their networks. But ISPs have gradually been getting more aggressive in the cleanup effort — including a new best practices initiative by an ISP industry group. The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working [...]