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Hi,
It also depends on from what perspective you are looking at it. As nihil said from a buisness point of view it can allow a company a better IT platform than they could normally invest in. Of...

Here is Sergey Shekyan blog with the POC.

https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/01/05/slow-read

Effectively once the attack is known it seems easy enought block. I doubt if...

Hi guys,
A little heads up if you havent seen this. Apparently there is a proof of concept for a new type of DOS attack. From what I understand it works by opening a TCP connection then sending no...

If some one sent me this site i problably would have been halfway throught putting in my details before i caught myself. the week before they mentioned another good site to check if your account has...

Hi guys,
While catching up with the pod cast Security Now they mentioned this great site :
http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/

Think of it as an educational site for your friends and family. When...

Havent read Cuckoo's nest but going to check it out. A book I did enjoy recently if you havent read it is zero day by mark russinovich. Not a master piece but a good piece of fiction by someone who...

Not a lot you can add after Instronics post but a few things i would do are:
Firstly change all my passwords to the server.
Activate SFTP.
To investigate the issue check the time stamp on the...

Hi all
As you probably know the site Mega upload has been pulled off the web so even with the present legislation it is possible for the US to internationally block sites and have them taken down....

You'd be amazed. I have seen people get caught by leaving their e-mail open while their partner is around. I have heard of one guy sending an e-mail to his mistress asking her to marry him. As far as...

Hi all,
It been a while I know. Any way to the reason for the post. I inherited the responsability for our Out of band connect to our routers in the event they become isolated from the network. That...

An old thread i know but there is one point I think that is worth considering is if the box connected is configured as either a dNS server or DHCP server and just so happens to have the same address....

Hi,
To find out the name of the account associated with an SID you can (works with XP may not work with later versions of windows server though):


Open Registry Editor and navigate to:

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I would view it like this : A router needs to be configured to block traffic while a firewall needs to be configured to allow traffic. You can configure the router as a firewall but it tends to...

Happy new year to you too Nihils,

It has been a while but I'm good and still in Paris. How are things with you? Hope you've been kkeping well.
Byte sorry for the thread jacking :)

You could also try to generate a windows FE live Cd. It is a bit limited on the tools you can put on it and I am only just starting to experiment so not sure just how usefull it will be. Still my...

Think of the positive side of things. you now have a complete toolkit to help you when you have a real problem thanks to all the links supplied by nihil. As to service engineers normally the first...

Your welcome ByTeWrangler,
We have a long week ahead of us here. just a quick note the AIS issue i confirmed on a T1600 and a T640. It may not be an issue on other platforms. Still if you reload...

Hi all,
Its been a long time but just a little heads up for any people running junos routers in their networks. Juniper issued a secuirty alert last week:...

Hi
Normally Net use connects a remote shared folder or drive to your computer. You can assign a drive letter to the shared folder with the command. You may also need to make sure you have the...

Hello Bytewrangler,
Havent been around in a while but another thing you can check that is if you haven't already is do a traceroute towards your web server with both a machine that works and a...

Hello all just a quick heads up on the soon to be released vista service pack. Apperently it will stop certain software from working. It seems to mainly affect third party security software. So test...

As far as i know the Guinness you get on the continent comes from holland or it used.

Actually it is true but the guinness is brewed there for africa. Apparently guinnes is the most popular beer in Nigeria. It does pack a punch though. In france I tend to drink mainly Beamish. It is...

Good nihil don't give me nightmares 200 million englishmen :D. Ok to be serious I know this was last weeks topic but still. there is about as much chance of England going for sharia law as there is...

Just to let you know this is not exactly a politically correct joke. It may offend so if you take offence easily dont open the image. Of course i might be just saying that to get every one to open...