Michael J Much's Weblog

Saturday, August 23, 2003

Internet quiet as Sobig attack deadline passes. The deadline passed quietly as security experts continued to stave off the Sobig.F worm by blocking 20 infected servers supplied with instructions to download and run a special file. [Computerworld News] 11:53:23 PM    comment []

MontaVista swats back at SCO. The company, a specialist in Linux-based software for embedded devices, advises customers not to pay anything to SCO for Linux licensing plans. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 11:52:32 PM    comment []

Pop-ups annoy, but do they work?. Wharton experts try to figure out just how annoying pop-up ads really are and whether intrusive necessarily means ineffective. [CNET News.com] 11:52:08 PM    comment []

Opportunism, spam behind new worms. Windows vulnerability presents a target [InfoWorld: Security] 2:12:25 PM    comment []

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks. IBM Corp. has been quietly stage-managing the open source community's response to The SCO Group Inc.'s $3 billion lawsuit over Big Blue's contributions to the Linux source code, SCO's Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride said in an interview at his company's SCO Forum user conference in Las Vegas this week. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:12:02 PM    comment []

No Denying New Switch Vulnerability. Security Manager's Journal: When tests confirm that a newly discovered denial-of-service vulnerability on Cisco hardware is a threat, Mathias Thurman must decide how to resolve the problem with minimal disruption. [Computerworld Security Manager's Journal] 2:11:40 PM    comment []

Sobig virus wreaks e-mail havoc. The Sobig virus looks set to keep causing trouble, millions of infected e-mails still flying across the net. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 2:11:14 PM    comment []

CNet: Digital-cable devices could hit retail. What the article doesn't mention is that the OpenCable licensing agreement bans almost all interesting devices in the name of copy protection. (Recording cable straight onto a DVD? Dream on.) [Hack the Planet] 2:10:56 PM    comment []

SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them [Slashdot] 2:10:26 PM    comment []

Worm's double whammy. Networks experience disruption as an old virus reappears as a mass-mailing machine and an MSBlast variant that patches the original vulnerability spread. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 2:10:03 PM    comment []

Security experts race to beat Sobig. A frantic global hunt is under way to find and switch off 20 home computers as the Sobig.F virus threatens to unleash a crippling barrage of data across the Net. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 2:09:33 PM    comment []

Friday, August 22, 2003

Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly [Slashdot] 8:57:54 PM    comment []

Netgear Routers DoS UWisc Time Server [Slashdot] 8:57:28 PM    comment []

Vmware with 2003 Server and Red Hat 8 Check out the Vmware site for a trial version of a virtual machine system that will let you run several operating systems at once on a single machine.  I installed Win 2003 Server and Redhat 8 today.  It is easy to flip back and forth between systems just as you would between applications in separate windows in windows.  The Redhat virtual machine even provides access to the web via your switch and router.     2:28:02 AM    comment []

Thursday, August 21, 2003

Worm double whammy still hitting hard. Nachi, the problematic fixer worm, and Sobig.F, the worst mass-mailing computer virus so far, continue to flood some corporate networks and e-mail servers. [CNET News.com] 11:33:10 PM    comment []

Arrogance Undermines Best Antivirus Defense. Inattention and complacency allow Vince's layered antivirus defense to atrophy -- and a virus gets through. [Computerworld Security Manager's Journal] 11:19:04 PM    comment []

Lots of interesting News today.... New virus and worm news in the security section! 5:05:16 PM    comment []

Linux advocate: More SCO evidence flawed [IDG InfoWorld] 5:04:17 PM    comment []

Patriot Act II Resurrected?. Congressional members sympathetic to the Justice Department may once again try to expand the feds' investigative powers. A proposed bill also would link low-level, nonviolent drug dealers with terrorists. Critics say it's Patriot II reborn. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] 5:03:48 PM    comment []

RIAA legal threat cuts P2P downloads by 23%. So the latest market stats suggest [The Register] 5:03:34 PM    comment []

MessageLabs: Sobig.F breaks speed records. The latest of version of the Sobig Internet virus, Sobig.F, is spreading faster than any virus seen before, according to U.K. e-mail security firm MessageLabs Ltd. [InfoWorld: Top News] 5:03:02 PM    comment []

Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains [Slashdot] 5:02:23 PM    comment []

Spread of 'Sobig.F' Virus Is Fastest Ever. A computer virus that circulated across the Internet this week, hard on the heels of another nasty online infection, has been declared the fastest e-mail outbreak ever. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 5:01:58 PM    comment []

Linux advocate: More SCO evidence flawed [IDG InfoWorld] 12:24:28 AM    comment []

U.K. security shop rethinks network scanning. NGSSoftware has released a redesigned version of its network- and application-scanning tool called Typhon III. [Computerworld Networking News] 12:23:32 AM    comment []

Tips on setting up a wireless LAN. Mobile and wireless analyst Craig Mathias gives realistic advice for building a wireless LAN. [Computerworld Network LAN/WAN News] 12:15:52 AM    comment []

Torvalds Slams SCO. In a hard-hitting exclusive interview with eWEEK, the father of Linux slams SCO's 'evidence' of illegal Unix code in Linux. [eWEEK Technology News] 12:09:57 AM    comment []

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Recording, movie industries appeal file-trading ruling [IDG InfoWorld] 3:41:12 PM    comment []

Update: Navy says intranet hit by worm but still functioning. The Navy's multibillion-dollar intranet was hit by a variant of the Blaster worm circulating around the Internet, but the network was never off-line, a Navy spokeswoman said. [Computerworld News] 3:41:10 PM    comment []

Bob Frankston: IPv6 isn’t just about more addresses. Can someone tell me how to enable this mandatory always-on zero-configuration IPv6 security on my Mac, Linux, or Windows box? Don't just say "IPSec", because every version of IPSec I've seen requires significant configuration. [Hack the Planet] 3:41:07 PM    comment []

Microsoft Urges Messenger Upgrade. Move sparked by security concerns in older versions of the software. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] 3:41:05 PM    comment []

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SCO Execs Tout Web Services. At the SCO Forum, company officials talked up its SCOx Application Substrate and preached the gospel of interoperability. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] 3:40:53 PM    comment []

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Media groups appeal P2P ruling. Record labels and movie studios say they have appealed an April federal court ruling that held for the first time that some file-swapping software was legal. [CNET News.com] 7:11:48 PM    comment []

Nextel, RadioFrame bring Wi-Fi indoors. The companies launch a wireless service aimed at improving indoor coverage and capabilities for wireless voice and data services. [CNET News.com] 7:11:23 PM    comment []

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Zone Labs Gains IMsecure Apps. Zone Labs Inc. has acquired IMsecure Corp. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] 5:15:36 PM    comment []

Nasty virus infection from Kazaa I have been using Kazaa lite because it is not filled with attached spyware, but it appears the many of the files stored on the network have viruses.  I spent about two days clearing them out!  Be very carefull downloading anything with and exe extension.  I tried a new antivirus software called bitdefender and have a good experience with it!  4:50:05 PM    comment []

Class Starts... Welcome to Network Configuration!  This is the site we will use to post our weekly links to articles and follow up on classroom discussions.  3:24:49 PM    comment []