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Critical IE Flaw & Emergency Patch
New 0 Day in the wild.. For those poor souls still using Internet Explorer take heed! Here are the details on the vulnerability and the emergency patch Good Luck! And if you haven’t already Do Yourself A Favor
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The DoS of GRC Revisited
[In keeping with the theme of the day] Being the Attacker can be fun (in that evil sort of way) but being the Attackee is never a good time. I often times recall the story told by Steve Gibson of GRC.com about his battle with a DDoS attack launched by a 13 year old hacker…
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Fighting SSH Brute Force
To anyone that has had to deal with this issue, I feel you. I can recall less than 2 years ago how an SSH brute force attempt, our preventive/corrective actions, and their response (a weak DoS attempt) triggered a change in our internal process regarding SSH access to the outside world. There was a fairly…
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Monsterous Patch Tuesday
Since Microsoft started its “Patch Tuesday” schedule back in 2003 they have been pretty consistent with fixing issues every week. This past week they have patched the most vulnerabilities since the start of the schedule. 8= Bulletins 28= Vulnerabilities patched Find out more info here and get yourself patched!
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Ain’t Nothing but a G Thing
If you speak to me on a regular basis you already know how much I love my Google G1. Actually my love affair is more with the Android OS than the hardware itself although I do not have any complaints about the hardware. Well it looks like I will not be shutting up about this…
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SUSE put’s an early present under the tree
For me 1st there was Slack Then I wore the Redhat for a while But for the past 8 years I will have to admit it.. I Love A Gecko!
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“Your Auto Warranty is about to Expire!” Today’s Scammers
So over the past 4-5 months I have been getting very strange calls. I have gotten these calls on all of my mobile or landlines. They usually all start the same way. “This is an Automated message informing you that your auto warranty is about to expire. Please stay on the line to renew” The…
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ACISS Reviewed
In keeping with the theme of last week and reviewing proprietary government systems. Today we will take a quick glance at ACISS (Augmented Criminal Investigation Support System). It’s names like this that let you really appreciate acronyms, but just as the name suggests this is a tool used by law enforcement to help manage the…
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RailNet AEI Reviewed
So with the rising costs of fuel affecting various shipping industries. The viability of a strong rail system is more valuable than ever. Today we will review one of the tracking mechanisms used by this our rail system called RailNet AEI (Automatic Equipment ID). From the Company Website: “SAIC’s RailNet® Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI) reader…
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Do You Own What You Create?
While this would seem like a basic concept often times these lines get blurred in courtrooms. Techdirt has a very interesting article on this. Based on a recent ProIP ruling that was questionable to say the least. They point out a few valid points of this discussion and even quote a very good plain English…
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