On today’s Internet Storm Center Diary : Johannes noticed an odd attack coming from what turned out to be a DVR in China. This is a shape of things to come, unattended devices, which never get patched… Shape of things to come? Bots attacking us?
Unfortunately in this day, it is not enough to have a person on staff to handle your IT work, or even be in charge of Security tasks. How can you be certain that tasks are… Being “secure” what does that mean?
When trying to login to WordPress I got this message instead: (output started at public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter/widget_twitter_vjck.php:171) in public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 896) Which is interesting to say the least. So after searching the Internet for a similar… Interesting WordPress problem – could not login to wp-admin
It is a good idea to get in the habit of patching your systems consistently. Not wanting to reboot is sometimes a wish of all of us, as we do not want to close all… Patching systems consistently
On patch Tuesday Microsoft has decided to roll up all the vulnerabilities found in the last month on one day, otherwise as each vulnerability gets created and fixed there would be many of them spaced… Why patch Tuesday is so important
In the last 25 years the most common vulnerabilities are? From VRT-Blog at snort.org Total vulnerabilities and highly critical vulnerabilities were up in 2012 after a significant downswing over the previous few years; 2012 was a record-breaking… 25 years of vulnerabilities 1988 – 2012 a report
CRN.com Website Has a discussion of a warning about an analysis about a new toolkit that makes it easier to create malware or other attacks on the Windows platform, Java, and Adobe. This is the actual link… “Cool” exploit kit – be careful what you click on
Just fixed a computer with the Harbinger ‘rootkit’ virus. Typical tools used to clean the computer, plus the Kaspersky bootkit removal tool called TDSSKiller Kaspersky webpage link. If you do decide to download from other sources… Fixed harbinger virus