Comment Re:OpenWRT/DD-WRT devices all appear to be vulnera (Score 1) 272
Except it also attacks the http daemons on several models.
Comment Re:OpenWRT/DD-WRT devices all appear to be vulnera (Score 1) 272
That analysis is old.
And, it only targets DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Tomato routers configured in the way described in the article.
Comment Re:What to do about it? (Score 2, Informative) 272
Actually, the worm also exploits some vulnerabilities in the HTTP servers in some of these models.
Submission + - World's Top 10 IT locations (pcauthority.com.au)
Slatterz writes: A decade ago people were talking about the death of distance, and how the internet would make physical geography irrelevant. This has not come to pass; there are still places around the world that are hubs of technology just as there are for air travel, product manufacturing or natural resource exploitation. This list of the ten best IT centres of excellence, includes some interesting trivia about Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, Silicon Valley, Fort Meade Maryland, and Zhongguancun in China, where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.
Submission + - One month on the app store - not rich yet (blogspot.com)
iamflimflam1 writes: One month ago I published an iPhone application. I wasn't expecting a huge number of sales — after all, who wants to buy yet another Sudoku application! I was slightly disappointed by the initial sales figures (Who doesn't dream of hitting the jackpot). It's been an interesting month though so I thought I'd share my sales statistics.
For anyone planning to make a living from iPhone apps — take a look at the first couple of weeks of sales and make note of the fact that the app is selling for only $0.99. For those of you who like to dream of making it to the big time — take a look at the last few days of sales on the UK app store and imagine what it would like if that was happening in 50 countries!
If you don't want to read the artical, then here's the executive summary, first couple of weeks 0-10 sales a day, last couple of days 300-350 sales a day.
For anyone planning to make a living from iPhone apps — take a look at the first couple of weeks of sales and make note of the fact that the app is selling for only $0.99. For those of you who like to dream of making it to the big time — take a look at the last few days of sales on the UK app store and imagine what it would like if that was happening in 50 countries!
If you don't want to read the artical, then here's the executive summary, first couple of weeks 0-10 sales a day, last couple of days 300-350 sales a day.
Submission + - Botnet worm that targets DSL modems and routers (dronebl.org)
CoreDuo writes: The people that bring you the DroneBL DNS Blacklist services, after investigation of a recent DDoS incident, have disocvered a botnet that is comprised of exploited DSL modems and routers. What makes this impressive is the sophisticated nature of the bot, and the potential damage it can do not only to an knowing end user, but to small businesses using non-commercial internet connections and the unknowing public that take advantage of the more popular than ever free wifi services. The botnet is believed to have an estimated 100,000 effected hosts.
Submission + - Deep packet inspection "end of internet"? (arstechnica.com)
Houston 2600 writes: "ISPs want to avoid becoming a low-margin "bit pipe"--a dumb communications network that just enables companies like Google to make bazillions of dollars. And one good way to do that is to sell expensive services, using DPI to identity and categorize Internet traffic, then degrade or prioritize protocols and applications to fit the service profile."
Submission + - Giving your greytrapping a helping hand (blogspot.com)
Peter N. M. Hansteen writes: "Some spam houses have invested in real mail servers now, meaning that they are able to get past greylisting and even content filtering. Recently Peter Hansteen found himself resorting to active greytrapping to put some spammers in their place. The article also contains a list of spam houses' snail mail addresses in case you want to tour their sites."
Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful 407
dowlingw writes "It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves. Users trying to visit pages at search results will only be able to proceed via manual manipulation of the search result link to remove the Google click-through (which is also broken). Until Google fixes this bug, it looks Google web search is useless." Update: 01/31 at 15:16 GMT by SS: The problem now appears to be fixed.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.
Comment Re:And who hosts spammers? (Score 1) 2
awesome.
Submission + - Spamming automated, CAN-SPAM implications? (spamza.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Ryan Farmer, previously known for the Foxconn BIOS bug (previously featured on Slashdot), has now come up with a website that automates spamming people called Spamza. Is this a violation of the CAN-SPAM act, and can/will Ryan Farmer be facing jail time over this?
Submission + - The Public Availability of UnixWare 7.1.3 (sacredspiral.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: For years, SCO has jabbed at the Linux community in a way suggesting it owns the rights to all we've come to love. Now you can see for yourself who got code from who. Someone found a file on *their* ftp server hosting the prized OS. Have a look-see here. :)
http://sacredspiral.co.uk/?p=28
And here:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/iso/UnixWare-7.1.4-May2006/uw714.CD1.May2006.iso
Submission + - CPUShare: Grid Computing On The Cheap
Diablo-D3 writes: "Andrea Arcangeli, famed kernel hacker, has decided to take on all the grid computing systems out there and has created CPUShare. As he describes it, "CPUShare allows the home users to profit from the significant power of their hardware that otherwise would be wasted every day," allowing us geeks with a thousand idle computers to profit for other people's need of CPU power."
Submission + - Why Powered USB Is Going to Fail
An anonymous reader writes: Patrick McFarland, famous Free Software Magazine author (featured earlier on Slashdot), has written a two part article about why Powered USB is not taking off at home (part 2 available here). He includes a lengthy history on why USB took off in the first place, and then continues on to explain what we gain by allowing Powered USB to power all our devices.
