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Ok, who's having a laugh? 127.0.0.1 tried to hack me!
Posted on September 10th, 2003 | 6 Comments

I just received a couple of very strange packets. Came in over the wire from my ISP's UBR with the correct MAC addresses, it's definitely a spoofed packet; TTL suggests it most likely came from 9...

Hackers Secret Weapons - Virtual Private Networks
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 26 Comments

For one, if your on a Windows Platform and you didn't disable a number of services which are enabled by default, including file and print sharing, the chances of your computer being hacked/owned are...

REVIEW: "Desktop Witness", Michael A. Caloyannides
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 0 Comments

BKDSKWTN.RVW 20030819 "Desktop Witness", Michael A. Caloyannides, 2002, 0-471-48657-4 %A Michael A. Caloyannides %C 5353 Dundas Street West, 4th Floor, Etobicoke, ON M9B 6H8 %D 2002 %G ...

Re: Hacker's Secret Weapons -- Holy Cow !
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 24 Comments

<Colonel Kernel@sys32.com> wrote in message news:3f58afb1$0$23196$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com... Both and more. She is a wanna be that has no clue about network security & posts false and often...

I just found rundll2.exe on my machine, should I be concerned?
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Just got back from dinner to discover that Norton AntiVirus had a message up on my screen. It said that an email I was trying to send had timed out and I should reopen my email client to resend...

6th Information Security Conference
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 0 Comments

6th Information Security Conference 1-3 October 2003 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol England Keynote Talks: ============== Andy Clark (Inforenz Limited, UK) Graphology in the digital age- what...

Re: [HELP] Email Security on Shared Network
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 6 Comments

"Tom" <vze4n6n4@verizon.net> wrote in news:ARK4b.5451$9T1.2710@nwrddc02.gnilink.net: If your email is stored in a publicly accessible path in your network, you should speak to your network...

Spam
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 12 Comments

Before you people go complaining about my spam, first read up the definition. Tracker

Re: Norton Internet Security
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 6 Comments

"Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote in message news:bislt6$v2i$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk... <snip> EVERYONE should change the default NIS password. Having read your post in other group and having only...

PC Anywhere
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Is this safe (secure) to use? Thanks, Linda

netstat -a, shows a foreign contact
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 0 Comments

On 8 Sep 2003 21:52:42 -0700, waveflag@yahoo.com (wave) wrote: Most likely either spyware or an auto-update service. The IP traces to Akamai Technologies, a major hosting and data warehousing...

content filtering
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hi i have recently had adsl installed and the kids are going mad on the internet. their pc is networked to a router, so they have a 'dircet' connection to the net. i want to make sure that they do...

Security and Performance over Wireless LAN
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 2 Comments

I concern about security and performance over LAN. I know there are some encryption used in WLAN (WEP, TKIP, etc) for security. Of course, decrypting and decrypting take CPU time. I want to know...

Re: Closing Open Ports
Posted on September 9th, 2003 | 6 Comments

"timmi" <i@love.you> wrote in message news:fea034ba882f596a2188be044d7fc5a1@news.meganetnews.com... What ports are open? Some ports have to be open to communicate with the Web, email, newsgroup...

Deloader Worm
Posted on September 8th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Trying to find information on identification and removal of "Deloader Worm". To contact, use e-mail address -nospam. Thanx

Interesting Technique
Posted on September 8th, 2003 | 0 Comments

As part of a basic report for a client, I ran Nikto against their website - it came up with well over 500 positives suggesting that either the ISP or the host (will find out shortly) is...

Port 1025 - opened by "System"
Posted on September 8th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Just installed Win2k SP4 and closed all ports but one. ---------------------------------- c:\>netstat -an Proto Local Address Foreign...

Password BIOS
Posted on September 8th, 2003 | 0 Comments

As to remove the password of the Bios from a notebook ACER TM series 200? Thanks Alessio

Dealing with ActiveX, other potentially dangerous embeds?
Posted on September 8th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Of those security-minded folks out there that *DO* choose to use MS/IE, how do you deal with ActiveX or other potentially dangerous embeds in internet media? Realizing that each time I choose to...

Play Your Street Dick Games
Posted on September 8th, 2003 | 46 Comments

I realize the malicious hackers hate my guts and they will until the day I die. All the street dick games you play on me won't ever change my willingness to help computer victims; they make me...