DNS Servers Leveraged For DDOS Attacks

April 29th, 2006 In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default. Outbound filtering for applications will configurable by enterprise administrators through Group Policy.

July 9th, 2009 Official: 7 SKorean Web sites under renewed attackSEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack. Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m.

July 9th, 2009 Official: S. Korea web sites under renewed attackSEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

March 18th, 2008 I have been trying for the last 6 hours to access ICICI PayPal alternative, PaySeal (203.27.235.72). Unfortunately the site is unreachable from India as well as USA.

August 13th, 2006 Update: LinkieWinkie merely leveraged the links to create yet another blog site. Nice bait and switch, but I expected better.

May 9th, 2005 Oscarbot(aka Doyorg), an windows only Trojan, continued to spread on Monday among America Online instant messaging clients. It installs backdoor on the infected PC when users click on a link within lines like "hey check out this" or "i thought youd wanna see this" from a buddy on their AIM contact list.

July 18th, 2006 As you know two class action lawsuits have been filed in US against Microsoft which alleges Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Tool is a spyware. Is WGA really a spyware? Let's take a look from different angles.

May 30th, 2006 Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday. The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users.

August 8th, 2008 GoDaddy is a arguably the largest domain name register. Yet it does something which I am not very comfortable with - make profit off your domain names and does that without your explicit permission.

November 27th, 2004 Wiki's allow collaborative editing of web-sites. Most wikis like the original c2 wiki allow anonymous users to modify the web pages, including complete deletion of contents or insertion of external links.

December 3rd, 2007 DROP (Don't Route Or Peer) is an advisory "drop all traffic" list from Spamhaus, consisting of stolen 'zombie' netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny sub-set of the SBL advisory designed for use by firewalls and routing equipment.

August 27th, 2007 One of the good reason is that one (or more) of the servers you ping after you publish a post has gone down or is overloaded. When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the configured ping servers that your site has been updated.

December 11th, 2007 We are looking for a full-time Linux system administrator to manage our dedicated servers and our internal servers, computers and network. He will also have to manage the MySQL server and other servers in-house.

August 27th, 2007 Here is the list of blog ping servers I use. Ping servers are services which are automatically notified after a blog post is published.

October 6th, 2007 Domain Name Servers resolves domain names to IP addresses. However how can you resolve the domain names of the domain name servers? For examples our domain name servers are at ns1.taragana.com and ns2.taragana.com.