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DNS stands for Domain Name Servers, RIPE stands for Registrar of the IP address space in Europe (title is in French, thus abbreviation does not fit the name). Whenever you ask your computer to present you with webpage, once you enter the address (www.example.com) your computer contacts DNS server delegated to it, and sends it a DNS query (asking literally – what IP is behind the www.example.com). Read the rest of this entry »

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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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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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 »

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 »

Hello all. To return to the community, once at least, I will be writing a series of articles called Troubleshooting Internetz Connection. It will be aimed at noobs and their problems. Supposed to enable you to troubleshoot your shit without bugging all the great internautz like me.

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