Have Republicans Forgotten What This Man Stood For?If you are an Obama supporter, today is a great day for you. If you are a McCain supporter, you are probably in shock. After a few days the disbelief will wear off and it will become abundantly clear to you that we lost this election because the Republican party compromised itself. If our party takes
According to this announcement from yesterday, Fedora servers were compromised.Here is a scary part of the announcement:One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signingFedora packagesThat particular server had very little to do with Internet, and should have been properly isolated, even on a completely separate network from Internet accessible servers.So, the readers should be c
These techniques are being seen as an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks.
When it’s time to protect the content in a computer, file encryption is a great way of approaching the issue. While I tend to recommend full disk encryption, there are times when this is no good. For example, back‑up tapes don’t mesh with disk encryption. This means that individual files going on that tape must be encrypted, one-by-one.
And, yes, encrypting individua
One tool that can help you detect intrusions on a host and also ascertain what happened after the fact is Tripwire (). Tripwire is part of a class of tools known as file integrity checkers, which can detect the presence of important changed files on your systems. This is desirable because intruders who have gained access to a system will often install what's known as a root kit, in an attempt to b
What if somebody is monitoring all you activities on your computer ? What if he/she gets control of all your confidential data, like your logins/passwords or PIN of your online bank account ? Well the threat is very much real.Keylogger softwares if installed on a computer it can monitor all the activities on it. The Keylogger will record every single character typed and have it save to a text file. It also tracks what application are launched, sent emails, the visited websites, and save information typed in the forms. These keyloggers could put your valuable and confidential information at risk. So if you are using a public computer via an internet cafe, library computer or airport lounge computer the threat becomes more real.Now let me talk about the keylogger software. If somebody needs
What if somebody is monitoring all you activities on your computer ? What if he/she gets control of all your confidential data, like your logins/passwords or PIN of your online bank account ? Well the threat is very much real.Keylogger softwares if installed on a computer it can monitor all the activities on it. The Keylogger will record every single character typed and have it save to a text file
The fine art of pulling numbers from your nether regions
After much waiting by end users, and a lot of hoping from interested Information Security watchers, Microsoft has finally added detection for the Storm Trojan (Nuwar, Zhelatin, etc) to its Malicious Software Removal Tool. The most recent update, released on September 11th, included detection for [...]
An interesting article from Lim Kit Siang, a Malaysian opposition leader (DAP). He wrote:"Anwar Ibrahim has produced an explosive video clip on Judiciary Compromised which has set off reverberations in the Palace of Justice, the corridors of power, offices and homes in the country as well as internationally. The time for reckoning for the restoration of a truly independent judiciary and a just rule of law cannot be put off any longer. Malaysiakini has carried the transcript of the conversation between lawyer V.K. Lingam with Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz sometime in 2002, as recorded in the videoclip, viz: “The CJ said he is relative to now Agong, so he wants to stay on to 68, so, Tengku Adnan, I told Tengku Adnan, yesterday I had a meeting with him. He said PM is already very angry with him, he said no problem he is going to make you acting err.. confirm your position as PCA, working very hard then working very hard to get Tan Sri Mokhtar as CJM. Ah, we just keep it c
Directions Change all relevant passwords
Assume your passwords have been harvested and immediately change all critical passwords, including shell access, FTP access, Joomla! Administrator accounts, and the database account.
Check raw logs
Identify when and how the attackers gained access to your site by carefully reviewing your raw server logs. Make careful note of the date/time and names of
Directions Change all relevant passwords
Assume your passwords have been harvested and immediately change all critical passwords, including shell access, FTP access, Joomla! Administrator accounts, and the database account.
Check raw logs
Identify when and how the attackers gained access to your site by carefully reviewing your raw server logs. Make careful note of the date/time and names of
The information here is proposed to make you think. It is not meant to offend.The real questions are what do you do with your faith and if you had to let people know that you believe in God; would you do it or do you prefer to keep it a secret?They keep doing all of these studies about faith. They're not doing it because they believe. Remember that "they" the media are supposed to be impartial. However, they decided to try to find out about this faith thing. They found in one study that 85% of Americans believe in God, but 98% of Africans do, 9 of 10 Indonesians said they'd die for God and 87% of Ireland believe in God. So my question is are we lagging behind the rest of the world on the "Faith Scale" and if so why? Now I suggest to you that since real people write these stories, we are falling off our jobs fellow believers because as a group; the media has compromised themselves. They won't even say (rarely) they believe in God! That's an atrocity! It really is. Or ha
Sunday 8th April 2007 Kimi Raikkonen was left to rue a difficult weekend as he claimed third place in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix. Although Raikkonen put in a gallant effort near the end of the grand prix to try to pass Lewis Hamilton, the Ferrari driver had to settle for third pace as the McLarens out-paced and out-muscled the Ferraris. It was a bitter-sweet end to the Finn's weekend and saw him drop to second place in the Drivers' Championship behind reigning Champ Fernando Alonso. "I was happy to get some points but disappointed at the end," said the Finn. "All weekend we've had problems so it was one of those weekends where you just have to get as many points as you can. "I got close to Lewis but didn't have the same speed as Felipe and couldn't challenge him." One of the reasons Raikkonen was lacking in pace was because his Ferrari engine, which was damaged in Australia, wasn't running at maximum capacit
Early this morning, Sanjoy wrote in that the airindia.com website contained a script-tag linking to a malicious Javascript hosted on a Chinese web server. We were able to confirm this and contacted Airindia to inform them their site had likely been compromised. At this point in time, the site is clean again. Initial [...]
