Just reading CNN.com this morning (my morning ritual) and ran across this news report that was apparently filed earlier this morning and I thought it was pretty interesting. This isn’t anything that those of us in the hosting industry haven’t been hearing off and on since 9/11 but given what happened to Georgia just prior […]
Elaborate Facebook Worm…
I was just talking to Brent Worley and he was telling me about a friend of ours that had their Facebook Account Hacked somehow and they were wall posting executables, etc. I have been pretty busy lately and hadn’t heard of anything like that out there so I did a little research and came upon […]
Harvard University Website Hacked
I ran into this article on the WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty comical. Their website for their Graduate School or the Arts was compromised on Sunday, and don’t get me wrong that parts not funny by any means, but the comedy of this story is how they were hacked. Apparently some […]
Valentine’s Day Worm Email…
I am signed up to receive alerts and security notifications from the FBI and CERT when there are potential threats to Internet and email security, this one came down today and I have heard a lot of buzz about it the past few days so I thought that it was worthy to post a note […]
Book Review: Maximum Apache Security
About a year or so ago we were working pretty hard with our server admin to harden our servers against potential threats such as remote shell executions, bots, and xss vulnerabilities. It was a frustrating time for me because there were a lot of elements that I couldn’t get my mind around, fortunately our server […]
FBI Investigates Ticket Site “Attack”
Ran across this article on WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty interesting. Apparently a website operated by The Colorado Rockies that handles ticketing for their games had some issues staying online while a lot of people were trying to get tickets to the world series games, here is a Link to Web […]