Dropsafe

Should you really be afraid of a smurf? And exactly what threat does a pulsing zombie pose? They’re just two of the sinister computer attacks you need to watch out for. Our latest quiz just may send a shiver down your spine. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci813585,00.html

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175855.html SAPvir, the first virus to infect programs and reports used by the high-end SAP R/3 business information system, was posted to an online virus library this week. Experts said the proof-of-concept code, which does not appear to be present in the wild, is the latest effort by virus writers to target “exotic” computing platforms.

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I wonder if I should apply. 😎 Received: from disG.cjb.net (adsl-32-219-20.bct.bellsouth.net [67.32.219.20]) by pheriche.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA22986 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:01:41 -0600 (MDT) From: “Recruiting” Subject: Disgruntled Hackers Recruiting [A call to arms] To: alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com Greetings, I am representing the security research and developement (hacking) group DHO (Disgruntled Hackers ORG).…

i ensured that i got home from work on friday evening with plenty of time to set my house straight, since i was expecting a visit from my friend oonagh, whom i have not seen for some fourteen years, since college. oon’s hardly changed at all – jolly, silly, empathic, somewhat indecisive. we went out…

i’ve set-up a blog internal to my work, reckoning that nobody else has done it yet and therefore it constitutes a novel means of information communication. next, i’ll set up crossposting between the two, so i can get paid for writing my blogs, and publish the non-work related stuff here. being paid for blogging. what…

Is Alistair Cooke’s R4 Letter From America – Internet aside – the world’s longest-running Blog?

“Outlook – the internet petri-dish for viruses” – lovely description.

IBM Takes On Sun Cobalt http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/2002/ibm_hostapp.html The IBM e-Server xSeries Hosting Appliance includes up to 40 pre-loaded applications and operates on Red Hat’s Linux platform. Add in Sphera’s Hosting Director and IBM has built an offer worthy of the Sun.

I certainly wouldn’t mind having a cheap Xterm/toy box subsidized by microsoft. OK now you are going to tell me they don’t have VGA outputs or ethernet? Actually, there is a project to put Apache and/or Linux on an XBox (imagine cheap clusters of XBoxen running Apache as your web solution 😉 Im inspired enough…

Does a posting to which you are not permitted to respond, have any real meaning or use whatsoever?

we ought to write an april 1st RFC for a new service – call it HACKPORT or similar – that you can connect to and have it advertise a list of hackable TCP/UDP ports and services hosted on the machine. this should – if made mandatory – have the beneficial effect of negating all these…