The number one hook in most of the targeted malicious SPAM I’m seeing lately has to do with jobs. Either fake “responses” to a resume/CV, or offers of employment. With the US official unemployment rate above 9 percent, and the actual number of unemployed closer to 1 in 5, spammers know how to get their [...]
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Background: In today’s current environment it’s not unusual to see log files filled with thousands of entries for failed logins. Botnets, compromised servers, and even foreign governments are directing their energies toward harvesting valid username/passwords for mail servers, SSH access, and web sites with massive dictionary and brute force attacks. These attacks can come from several [...]
Most system administrators look at virtual servers such as Amazon’s EC2 or RackSpace’s Cloud Servers as a boon to IT, a way to scale to meet problems quickly, easily, and less expensively. Server virtualization is all the rage, and virtualization has replaced “web 2.0″ in every vendors lexicon. The advantages of cloud based virtualized servers [...]
A surprising number of small businesses have connected their office networks to the Internet with consumer grade NAT routers. These devices are inexpensive and easy to setup, but they lack features that most businesses should have. These devices are often left unsecured with default passwords and access levels. More importantly when something goes wrong they are [...]
