Info of what is known: Poison ivy (Backdoor:Win32/Poisonivy.E) is a backdoor trojan that allows unauthorized access and control of an affected machine. It attempts to hide by injecting itself into other processes. The following system changes may indicate its infection: The existence of the following file: c:windows:svvchost.exe The existence of the following registry entry: “StubPath” With data: “c:windows:svvchost.exe” in the subkey: HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftActive […]
I bumped into a site that seems to keep track of address info on a country by country basis. Find them here: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_country_block.php#blocklist they claim to update the database monthly. This may be useful one day.
After migrating my email account from EX2007 to EX2010 my Outlook 2010 client was giving warning about the certificate being used… I will like to thank Elan Shudnow’s Blog for the post on this because it helped me confirm the steps I had applied were correct, they just didn’t take place until after I rebooted the Exchange […]
Yes! I forgot my password to a fresh install of Ubuntu. Thankfully I can recover using the following steps: 1. Turn your computer on. 2. Press ESC at the GRUB prompt. 3. Press e for edit. 4. Highlight the line that begins “kernel ………”, press e 5. Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash […]
BackTrack Linux is the highest rated and acclaimed Linux security distribution to date. BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. BackTrack is intended for all audiences from the most savvy security professionals to early newcomers to the information […]
I think that data security should be one of the top concerns for computer users. If your computer is stolen, often the impact of confidential or proprietary data being lost or compromised can be much higher than the cost of replacing computer itself. There are many easy ways of keeping your data out of the […]