Another goodie from Slashdot:
“folks at GNU Citizen have been researching UPNP Vulnerabilities in home routers, and have produced a flash swf file capable of opening open ports into your network simply by visiting an unfortunate URL. Looks like Firefox & Safari users are safe for now.”
Wow.
This article from Slashdot ought to get you thinking! Read this:
“National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is currently helping to draft a new Cyber-Security Policy that could make the debate over warrantless wiretaps seem like a petty squabble. The new policy would allow the government to access to the content of any email, file transfer, or web search.”
Dang. Don’t that just sound like a whole lot of fun?
In an article on Slashdot, we find that Network Solutions (NSI) has been caught registering every domain name that users check for availability from their whois service. So, if you check to see if foo.com is available, and it is but you don’t register it immediately, they register it out from under you. Nice job there NSI, way to provide a good service to the customer. I have long suspected that someone was doing this, but I didn’t think the registrar was. Wow. Just goes to show that my aversion to dealing with this low life company was not incorrect.
Read more here …
It seems that the folks at GraffitiCMS, who make a competitor to WordPress, are aligning with Presidential hopefuls and slinging mud to promote their product even though it isn’t out of beta yet. I found the article here, I am not going to give them the satisfaction of linking to the original. Let’s take a walk though their arguments, shall we?
Although you can read the Monty Python skit here, I am talking about email spam. Lately I have been inundated with spam, and it’s aggravating me. I use MailWasher which I recommend to people for filtering spam at the user level, and it does a superb job. However, I really want to stop spam at the server level. I am now on a quest, or mission if you will, to figure out how to stop spam (at least as much as I can) from passing through my server and even getting to the user level. So, as I go forth on my spam fighting quest, I will bring you along with me and share what I find. Maybe we can all move a step forward in overcoming the spam epidemic.
More to come …
How cool is that? I found this article when I was pondering the idea of running Ubuntu inside of Windows. I have Ubuntu on several machines around the lab, but I thought it would be cool to hit an icon and bring up Ubuntu in a window like I have done with DSL (Damn Small Linux). Welp, here I found this article on using QEmu to get Ubuntu running on a USB drive, a USB hard drive in my case. The install went off without a hitch, just like the article spelled out. Try it out and have yourself a Linux inside of Windows fun time too!