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Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw

Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flawYou keep incorrectly blaming the advisories for the attacks"The latest twist in the ongoing attacks comes less than a week after Microsoft's pre-patch advisory provided clues for hackers to write and release detailed exploit code."You keep incorrectly blaming the advisories for the attacks...

Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, RPC, Criminal hacker, attack, Microsoft Windows, Windows DNS, security

Discussion threads 2007-04-17

Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw

Online criminals have pounced on the unpatched Windows DNS Server service vulnerability, using the security hole to seed and replenish for-profit botnets.The latest twist in the ongoing attacks comes less than a week after Microsofts pre-patch advisory provided clues for hackers to write and release detailed exploit code.Anti-virus researchers have...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Uncategorized, Symantec, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Cybercrooks exploiting new Windows DNS flaw

Cybercrooks exploiting new Windows DNS flawwellDNS runs on UDP/53of course you will kill the DNS server that way, making yo have to type stuff like http://216.239.122.100 to get to http://news.zdnet.comWhich portsneed to be blocked?Again with the Windows expoits ?!?!?When will it all end ?!?!?We all need to be running Apple...

Tags: Operating systems, Domain names, Windows 200, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, server, Microsoft Corp., Windows DNS flaw, new Windows DNS flaw, Windows DNS, DNS, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

Additional Resources

Which antivirus is best at removing malware?

Run a Linux distro or a MacIt is funny, when you 'weld' a web_browserinto an operating system and viruses/worms/malware/trojans and spyware come in from outside sources it is amazing how insecureit makes an Operating System.Say what you will, Linux distro's power theInternet with Bind dns, dhcp, routers/switchesand they do not...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, MSE, antivirus, operating system, malware, Linux Distro, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

EA Domainkeys/DKIM for IIS SMTP Service and Exchange Server 2.1 (Windows)

With this tool, your IIS SMTP Service and Exchange Server will be enabled to add DomainKeys/DKIM signature to outgoing emails from specified domains, which verify the DNS domain of an email sender and the message integrity, and in turn preventing the emails from your domain from being flagged as spam...

Tags: SMTP, Electronic Arts Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Domain, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft IIS Server, AdminSystem Software, E-mail, E-mail Providers, E-mail Servers, Online Communications, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Internet Server Monitor 10.0.13 (Windows)

Internet Server Monitor is a network monitoring tool enabling Systems Administrators to monitor network servers, services, and applications for failures as well as recoveries enabling issue identification and resolution before users report them. Internet Server Monitor handshakes with network resources and calls specific functions enabling Internet Server Monitor to determine...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Internet Server, Corner Bowl Software, Internet Server Monitor, Internet, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-02

WebLog Expert 6.2 (Windows)

WebLog Expert is a feature-rich Web server log analyzer. It will give you information about your site's visitors: activity statistics, file access statistics, paths through the site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, errors. Flexible filters will help you perform comprehensive research. The program generates HTML-based reports...

Tags: Blog, Microsoft Windows, FTP, Microsoft IIS Server, Alentum Software, WebLog Expert, Blogging, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-27

TP-Link TL-WR741ND Wireless Lite N Router

At less than $40, the TP-Link TL-WR741ND Wireless Lite N Router is among the cheapest 802.11n routers, if not the cheapest, you can find on the market. It's also the first we've reviewed that supports the single-stream standard and therefore caps at only 150Mbps hence the Lite designation. Other Wireless-N...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, network, TP-LINK

Product reviews 2009-10-26

MintDNS Enterprise 2.0 (Windows)

MintDNS 2006 Enterprise is a fully featured server suite that allows you to run your own enterprise level DDNS Server. Providing both Dynamic and Static DNS services MintDNS supports standard update protocols which enables support for many third party IP address update clients. Including many of the hardware clients found...

Tags: Dynamic DNS, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, MintDNS 2006 Enterprise, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-22

NetSetMan 2.6.2 (Windows)

NetSetMan is a network settings manager which can easily switch between 6 different profiles including IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS server, Win server, computer name, printer, DNS domain, workgroup, and scripts. It also can get current settings and do a FastSwitch from the tray bar. With only two...

Tags: Profile, Network, Microsoft Windows, Ilja Herlein, NetSetMan, Domain Names, Mice, Printers, Networking, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-10-21

Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware

Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

DDNS Enterprise Client 2.0 (Windows)

Myfreeip client is used with myfreeip's free DDNS services. The client keeps your IP address in sync with your configured DNS host names, which are provided by myfreeip. Some things you can do with the myfreeip client, run mail servers, run web and FTP servers. Myfreeip is an alternative to...

Tags: Client, Microsoft Windows, DynDNSServices, Myfreeip, Domain Names, Networking, Servers, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-19

NetXtremeDNS 2.0 (Windows)

NetXtremeDns .NET component offers a number of classes that make the work of querying DNS servers for resource record types defined by RFC-1034 and RFC-1035 more easily. You can easily retrieve the list of available DNS servers in your network, send a constructed DNS request message to a DNS server...

Tags: DNS Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Safabyte, Domain Names, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-18

SafeSquid Business Edition 3.1.2 (Windows)

SafeSquid Business Edition is Content Filter Web Proxy Server for Windows. It has a Browser based interface. SafeSquid offers arguably, worlds biggest set of Content Filtering features. SafeSquid's multi-threaded architecture. SafeSquid has an intelligent DNS cache, an extremely manageable content Caching system, and configurable content pre-fetching that allows fast browsing...

Tags: SafeSquid, SafeSquid Business Edition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Security

Software downloads 2009-10-15

DNSDataView 1.03 (Windows)

This utility is a GUI alternative to the NSLookup tool that comes with Windows operating system. It allows you to easily retrieve the DNS records (MX, NS, A, SOA) of the specified domains. You can use the default DNS server of your Internet connection, or use any other DNS server...

Tags: DNS, DNS Server, Domain, NirSoft Freeware, Domain Names, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Networking, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-10-06

.NET Network Suite for C#,VB.NET,ASP.NET 2009Vol4 (Windows)

ComponentForge Network Suite helps you to build scalable Internet/Intranet client and server applications with flexible and easy-to-use components designing for rapid development without the complexities of working with native socket class or in-depth knowledge of how the protocols are implemented. The ICMP component enables your application to send ECHO requests,...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Network, Microsoft Windows, Safabyte, Internet, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-29

.NET Network Pro Suite for C#,VB,ASP.NET 2009Vol4 (Windows)

ComponentForge Network Pro Suite is a combination of two professional suites ComponentForge Network Suite and ComponentForge Mail Pro Suite. With easy-to-use components covering the most popular Internet protocols and includes FTP/SSL, SFTP, ICMP, DNS, NTP Internet Time, Domain Who Is, Trace Route, Proxy, Mail, IMAP, POP3, SMTP and Dynamic Template,...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Suite, Network, Microsoft Windows, Safabyte, ComponentForge Network Pro Suite, Internet, E-mail, Networking, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-09-29

DynDNS Updater 4.1.4 (Windows)

DynDNS Updater is a lightweight application designed to keep hostnames in DynDNS' free and paid DNS services up-to-date with your current IP address. This allows one to run Web or e-mail services at home, even on a dynamic IP address.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dynamic Network Services, DynDNS Updater, E-mail, Domain Names, Networking, Online Communications, Internet

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat

Linux distro appliances are the futureCompanies are wising up and getting away from MS 20G worm/virus operating systems and going to Linux distro driven appliances.It is the future with appliances no one needs a Windows OS with Office for someone to open a (.doc) to edit it is a security...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Red Hat Inc., Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-24