So it happened that the disk hosting our code repository developed some bad blocks. Must be contagious or something, this is already the third system within a month… I noticed this, when I received some strange messages from cron. Basically …

A mass operation is underway to infect several thousands of computers worldwide. The attack from the malware writers is taking place from various sources using an array of different techniques. Information regarding this attack until now is very limited however …

A disk can, and will, develop bad blocks during its lifetime. Usually the disk firmware is good enough in recognizing failing blocks, before they become unrecoverable and remap them, but nothing is perfect and  problems happens. In that case, where …

News has broken out that a large number of Hotmail/Windows Live credentials have been stolen and published on the internet. It is not yet clear how these credentials were obtained; however, Microsoft claims it was by means of a phishing …

I have dealt with cyber crime in a number of previous posts, such as the 21st Century heists series. This post chronicles a recent event about some of the themes tackled in that series. Finjan has recently released a report about …

DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544 Another day, another example exposing the fragile human security in an organization. Malware writers and spammers greatly depend on disguising their payload as innocent messages or software, which may even pretend to be offering a form …

A while ago I wrote a series of articles about theft in the modern age that provided an in-depth account on how malicious people were stealing using technology in the modern age. I recently came across a very interesting article by Jacqui …

Recent figures put Microsoft IIS as the second most popular web server on the internet, second only to the Apache HTTP Server. It is therefore of no surprise that following the Apache site breach on 28th September ’09, it was …

Importing Data from AD In Part 2 we  discussed how to export data from a working Active Directory installation. That was the easy part, now the real fun begins as we discuss how to import data to your Active Directory …

On September 8th Microsoft released its usual set of patches. One particular issue CVE-2009-1926 affects all Microsoft Windows platforms except for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.However Microsoft neglected to issue a patch for the Windows XP and Windows 2000 …