The BBC website reports that following an investigation by the Washington Post , Internet service providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric have disconnected the US firm McColo. The firm is believed to be responsible for hosting groups that have been sending spam via botnets.
Ironport, the email security firm now owned by Cisco, claims that as [...]
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Spam drops 70%
13Nov08DNS attack in the wild
31Jul08There’s been a lot of talk about the DNS vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447) discovered by Dan Kaminsky. The exploit, as detailed by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Database, allows remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic enabling the poisoning of DNS caches in order to send systems to malicious websites. This greatly increases the risk of phishing attacks [...]
Google users don’t feel lucky
04Oct07I’ve often wondered if anyone made use of the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google website, as I have never seen the point of it. In an interview on the Washington Post website with Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products and user experience for Google, she states that fewer than 1% of users [...]
Supercomputer for rent?
27Sep07VeriSign, the company that administers the .com top level domain, has warned that botnets are growing at such a rate that there is an increasing risk of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against them effectively shutting down the Internet. They state in a report on ZDNet that they are currently fending off DoS attacks launched from BotNets by increasing [...]
With VMware’s share price rising as much as 91% on the first day of trading, is this the future in IT or just another technology fad? It certainly has some advantages in many situations but it also has its disadvantages.
A survey by Evans Data of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Windows for their applications declined by 12% from a year ago, while Linux development rose by 34%.
However, Windows development still forms the majority of the market at 64.8%, and Linux development only [...]
Linux blasts into space
03Jul07Wind River Systems, Inc. has been selected by Honeywell Aerospace to support the development of NASA’s New Millennium Program Space Technology 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor. The contract marks the first time a Linux platform has been selected by Honeywell for a space mission.
Reported by TechNews.
ComputerWeekly reports some statitiscs from the aniti-virus vendor Sophos that web pages on ligitimate sites are being infected by malware at the rate of almost 30,000 a day. Sophos research shows the top ten web-based malware as:
Mal/Iframe 64.0%
Mal/ObfJS 10.1%
Troj/Psyme 3.8%
Troj/Fujif 3.1%
Troj/Decdec 2.7%
VBS/Redlof 2.5%
Mal/Packer 1.1%
Troj/Ifradv 1.0%
VBS/Haptime 1.0%
Mal/Zlob 0.9%
Others 9.8%
