Dear Microsoft, I have watched you develop as a company, starting with Windows 3.1. It was most peoples first experience with a PC and considering that there was really no other marketed OS (Linux was brand new and not really totally “usable” yet. I ran it, but it was not for the faint of heart. [...]
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An Open Letter to Microsoft
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Matt in news, securityTags: Apache, Blaster, Boink, Bonk, code, Code Red, company, computer, Conficker, crash, denial of service, denial of service attack, exploits, Frag, IIS, ILOVEYOU, irc, Land, Linux, Microsoft, MyDoom, Nestea, NewTear, Nimda, Sandmind, Sasser, Sircam, Slammer, SoBig, Sping, spyware, SQL, TearDrop, vulnerability, vulnerable, Windows, WinNuke, worm
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File Server LNK Protection
Posted: 22nd July 2010 by Matt in hacks, news, securityTags: bat, block, dll, exe, file, file screening, file server, Linux, LNK, NAS, protect, Protection, Samba, screen, share, spread, Stuxnet, Veto, vulnerability, Windows
I figured I’d throw this out there.. I wanted to make sure that in the event that somehow my network were infected by something that used this vulnerability that it would be limited to an individual machine. Basically, I didn’t want it on my file server. Also, at the bottom of this post I give [...]
Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL)
Posted: 19th July 2010 by Matt in hacks, news, securityTags: computer, damnvulnerablelinux, exploit, exploits, hack, Linux, security, vmware, vulnerable
All I have to say is.. awesome! This is a Linux distro that is intentionally made as vulnerable as possible. Why? Because it allows you to throw it on to some old computer (or run it as a vmware image!) and hack the living you know what out of it. You can test new tools, [...]