August 16th, 2010
BotNet, that I wrote about in pre-previous article, is a term that many of my friends are not familiar with. What would be a BotNet and what dangers does it impose on you, end user; where does it originate and how does it propagate?
Lets start from the beginning. BotNets are networks consisting of bot-computers, robotized machines that can be given any set of instructions or code to evaluate and execute. Such robot-computers are actually end-user computers, just like yours, that have been compromised and contaminated with mutant virus. Viruses, unlike a decade ago, do not have firm boundaries and classifications; rather, viruses of today and tomorrow are mutants that combine and incorporate many malicious behaviours.
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August 13th, 2010
I know weird, I met weird, heck I spent more time with weird peoplez than with regular. I can tell weird. And this, definitely, is some weeeeiiiird shait.
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August 13th, 2010
It seems taht intl police task-forces managed to arrest the head of the largest botnet ever, Mariposa botnet. It has been said that this botnet has connected anything between 8 and 12 billion zombie-computers; extracted complete information usable for identity theft – information on about 800.000 individuals, including social security numbers, dates of birth, and other information used by imposters to create fake identities, credit cards, etc. It seems that this botnet united admins from more than 190 countries and infected high-profile computers, such as those in big ass firms – it is also believed that this botnet has had some control over desktops in more than 40 fortune100 companies. Read the rest of this entry
August 13th, 2010
This is how one of my teammates rolls. Read the rest of this entry
August 2nd, 2010
Eh, in my career, I never thought I would learn so much about fonts. Double-byte, italic, Unicode sets, proportions, serifs, TTF, and more. I have read endless discussions on GNU Linux font representation, metrics, proportional fonts and their CHARacteristics (pun intended).
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July 30th, 2010
Happy Sys Admin day!
If there was no sysadmins, you would not be able to see this message. In fact, it is highly likely that you would not be able to see any messages at all. Today, or tomorrow, your electroshit would stop working. Once that happens, you usually get to talk to an semi-interested semi-moron behind the Customer Service Line. Read the rest of this entry
