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Networking 101 with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:45:27 -0500

Want to learn about networking without hours and hours of reading or spending money on a college class? Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte have been doing a series of podcasts that could give you a good starting point for your networking education.

Nmap 4.00 released

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:39:07 -0500

Nmap, Insecure.org's much-praised open source network auditing tool, has received a major set of updates. So many updates, in fact, that it was deemed worthy of a new version number.

A worm by any other name

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:44:20 -0500

Just when Windows administration was starting to get boring, there's a new worm on the run with more than its share of variations and names. According to a Microsoft security advisory dated January 30, a Mywife variant is in the wild that will be triggered on the third day of each month. That means this Friday could lead to a long weekend for many a technician.

The ripoff that is consumer-grade networking hardware

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:05:32 -0500

It's 2006. Apple is now using Intel hardware for some of its notebooks. Microsoft is using PowerPC chips for its gaming consoles. Google has found a way to be pro-privacy as well as pro-censorship all in the span of about a week. With so many changes in the last few months effecting the entire industry, I'm surprised to still scratching my head over the pitiful performance of consumer-grade networking hardware.

The Windows WMF exploit could be the last wake up call Microsoft and others get

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:58:04 -0500

An ill wind is blowing near Microsoft right now. It's come and passed before, but this time seems different. I'm starting to get a lot of clients asking about this "Linux stuff." And I'm not even talking about the corporations trying to save money on software; I'm talking about individuals trying to save their home computers.

Windows WMF vulnerability workaround

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:11:22 -0500

So far, Microsoft hasn't released a patch to the much-hyped WMF vulnerability and isn't expected to for at least another week. Fortunately, there is a third-party workaround available.

Moon rocked

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:13:08 -0500

NASA is reporting that an explosion was sighted on the Moon's surface. Don't worry, there are no little green men involved. But there is something odd about this report.

China attempting to own our boxen?

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:11:07 -0500

Albert Einstein is famously quoted as saying that he didn't know what weapons World War III would be fought with but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. But looking through the prism of mutually assured destruction, perhaps the next great war will be fought in cyberspace. If that's the case, China has been accused of firing the first shot.

Knock-knock. Who's there? Apophis

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:31:07 -0500

The odds of it happening at any given moment are slim. But given plenty of time, the chances of a collision with a near-Earth object become astronomical. With one such object in particular, 99942 Apophis, the risk is high enough that people are starting to take notice.

Ping! Zine now online, too

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:15:08 -0500

If you are a web designer, host, or developer and haven't seen Ping! Zine, it may be the magazine you've been waiting for! Every issue features news and opinions from leaders in the online industry. Until recently, Ping! was available through subscription only but due to popular demand they are now releasing new issues online.

Gada.be - Useful resource or glorified scraping?

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:24:44 -0500

If you are a fan of Lockergnome or Chris Pirillo, you have probably noticed the sudden prevalence of Gada.be links on not only Pirillo's sites but those of his Lockergnome lackeys. If you look around Gada.be a bit, you may be wondering whether it is a site providing a useful service or it's just another glorified scraping site. It appears that Google has settled on the latter.

300 gigabytes in the size of a DVD?

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:31:14 -0500

Although storage space is no longer the premium it once was, physical backups and external media have been slow to catch up. While recordable DVDs may be fine for backing up a single workstation, large servers are still forced to rely on swappable drives and tape backups. But holographic disc technology could be changing all of that in the very near future.

Fake FBI email spreads worm

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:54:58 -0500

If you get an email from the FBI claiming you are visiting "illegal websites," don't open the file attached. Rather than going with tried and true promise of a nude celebrity, the latest computer nasty is going the more official-looking route.

Audio from the Podcasting Conference 2005

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:12:11 -0500

If you didn't make the trip to Ontario for last weekend's Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference, you might have been disappointed to find none of the sessions available online. Before you get too upset with the strange lack of a podcast at a podcasting conference, it turns out that they are releasing audio from several of the keynote speakers and will be releasing more soon.

Nigerian scammers convicted

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:44:16 -0500

Is it possible that the Nigerian 419 scam is finally over forever? Probably not. But at least a couple of the perpetrators are getting put away.