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Many Zeus botnet C&C servers taken down
Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 249 to 181 – including the six worse ones.Abuse.ch wrote: “As you can see in the chart abov... »
You don’t want to go looking for Corey Haim videos
Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all know that celebrity death equals Internet scams by the boatload.There are a number of spam runs currently circulating on video sharing sit... »
Rogue security products are the new black
Well, it looks like rogues are going to be in style this season.Our good friends at McAfee AV have predicted that the 400 percent increase in rogues (also called “scareware”) they saw in 2009 will continue this year. The loss to victims will be on... »
Adventures in Backup – continued
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/adventures-in-backup-continued.aspx'; Two weeks ago I discussed some bad experiences I had with Hyper-V + backup. Since then I have spent a bunch of time setting up Hyper-V + backup on a couple of systems – and none were as problematic as my first attempt. I have also setup my home Hyper-V server to... »
The Big [re]Build
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tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/the-big-re-build.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house, and more recently I talked about trying to backup my Hyper-V server. This discussion of backup was actually in preparation for a significant rebuild of my home Hyper-V server, that I undertook a week and a half ago. There... »
Twitter starts Direct Message phishing filtering
Twust and SafetwyDel Harvey who leads Twitter’s Trust and Safety team blogged yesterday that the social networking/micro-blogging service has begun filtering all links in Twitter Direct Messages to stop phishing:“Since these attacks occur primarily... »
New sniffer soon coming to a server near you
This little gem is probably one of those diagnostic tools that -- like BackOrifice and Metasploit Framework -- in the right hands is a good diagnostic tool and in the wrong hands is a bad diagnostic tool:http://www.serversniff.net/index.php“ServerSni... »
Consoles for old games come with new malcode
Be on the lookout for websites offering up “free applications” which come with a nasty sting in the tail. Here’s a typical example: Appzkeygen(dot)comIf you like videogame consoles, you may be a fan of emulators (programs that ape lon... »
Understanding where your virtual machine files are [Hyper-V]
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tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/understanding-where-your-virtual-machine-files-are-hyper-v.aspx'; To be honest, I am surprised that I have not blogged about this before, but today I would like to talk about how virtual machine files are placed on the hard disk. Virtual Machine files The first thing to know is what files are used to create a virtual machine: .XML files These files contain... »
LifeLock will pay $12 million for false claims
LifeLock, Inc., the company that GUARANTEED it would prevent customers’ identities from being stolen (for $10 per month) has agreed to pay fines totaling $12 million because the claims it made to promote its protection services were false, according ... »
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