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Interesting new forensic tool
Today the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced a new tool named LiveView on the forensics mailing list at security focus. This tools looks really promising in that it claims to provide a way to create … Continue reading
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The offline time …
Some of my readers may have recognized the offline time during the evening (CET+DST), so here comes a brief explanation for it. I had previously installed one of the 2.1 nightlies of WordPress and was just “downgrading” back to the … Continue reading
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Spammers not welcome (2nd part)
Today my logs showed how exactly the spammers exploited the old script. I do not log the mail body, but only sender, recipient and subject, but that’s enough to show the used pattern. In fact the subject variable was used, … Continue reading
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More about MACkerer2
Lately I wrote an article covering one use of MACkerer2. The described scenario is basically this: You have a subnet or otherwise limited number of IP addresses for one scope A virtually unlimited number of machines is supposed to share … Continue reading
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Spammers not welcome!
Inspecting my logs recently, I found that there were some strange requests to my Postfix mail server from user www-data. Now any sysadmin could tell you what www-data means but this does not really explain where exactly the requests came … Continue reading
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AOL changed Active Virus Shield EULA.
According to heise UK, AOL has changed the EULA for the Kaspersky AV rebrand and removed the questionable parts. This is just meant as an update to the last article about Active Virus Shield. // Oliver
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The MS-DHCP whisperer – MACkerer2
Some may recall that in 2003 I wrote a tool which provides a useful extension to the DHCP server of Windows 2000 – MACkerer (no support!!!), written in Delphi. Meanwhile years have gone by, but I wasn’t lazy. In 2004 … Continue reading
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Old Yurop … ehrm Britain has spoken …
The British are a strange people at times. The notion of humor – often mistakenly referred to (by them) as “sarcasm” – is well-known and hardly understood outside Britain. However, if my notion of sarcasm is not completely flawed, the … Continue reading
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Kaspersky AV rebrand freely available – pitfalls included …
It seems there exists a freely – and legally freely – available version of Kaspersky Antivirus rebranded as AOL – Active Virus Shield. Here in response to the first comment (see below), a quote from their terms of services:
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Agnitum still panicked?! …
Recently I wrote an article about Agnitum, a security software vendor known for its firewall, because of their accusations towards Microsoft. Today I recognized there was a comment of someone from Agnitum at the Sunbelt Blog, so I decided to … Continue reading
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Good idea – warn users of “badware”
StopBadware.org and Google joined forces to warn users of websites that spread malware – or “badware” as they say. This does not include the full spectrum of malware, but one of the nastiest subsets. Good initiative! This will hopefully be … Continue reading
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“The wrongful withholding your overdue payment”
Approximately 10 minutes ago I received a very nice new sample of a 419-variety. Enjoy: Valued Attention. I resumed duty recently as policy harmonization chairman on public debt (WORLD ASSOCIATIONS OF DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICES), a committee set up by the … Continue reading
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Agnitum panicked because of Microsoft’s security measures
In the Sunbelt Blog I read today, that Agnitum, vendor known for its firewall mainly, is panicked because of Microsofts Kernel Patch Protection. Sorry, but that caused me to laugh. No idea how new the news are, but to those … Continue reading
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Hello blogosphere …
Hello world. Finally I got my very own blog. Despite some brief experience with blogging while I was a Lavasoft employee, I have not much experience as a blogger. But I have a lot to say, stay tuned … 😛
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