“The people who bring you the DroneBL DNS Blacklist services, while investigating an ongoing DDoS incident, have discovered a botnet composed of exploited DSL modems and routers. OpenWRT/DD-WRT devices all appear to be vulnerable. What makes this worm impressive is the sophisticated nature of the bot, and the potential damage it can do not only to an unknowing end user, but to small businesses using non-commercial Internet connections, and to the unknowing public taking advantage of free Wi-Fi services. The botnet is believed to have infected 100,000 hosts.”
Taken from: Slashdot
Security
Botnet, Modem, Router
If you don’t know who or what Google is, You’ve definitley been living under a rock for the past (almost) 10 years. So what i’ve discovered today, is a little site which is still in its prehistoric form.. Backrub.
Backrub was the initial name of Google, when it was a research project run out of Stanford University. Developed and designed by the now, two uncomprehensivley rich Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Since then it has come a long way, origionally running on a couple of machines on-site at Stanford, It now operates hundreds apon thousands of servers worldwide, constantly crawling the web and gathering and organising information ready for us to search.
I’ve found the origional backrub project page, which is still operational – Showing the old-school search pages, for the very young (at the time) search engine.
Check it out at: backrub.c63.be
Science & Tech
Backrub, Google
One in 20 Australians is the victim of a scam each year.
During National Consumer Fraud Week, from March 2-8, the Australasian
Consumer Fraud Taskforce, a group of 19 Australian and New Zealand
government agencies is raising awareness of fraud in the community.
The aim of the Taskforce is to work together to reduce the incidence and
impact of frauds and scams, and each year it creates a co-ordinated
information campaign for consumers, timed to coincide with global consumer
fraud prevention activities.
Taskforce Chair and Australian Competition and Consumer Competition Deputy
Chair Peter Kell, says while people are generally aware that scams occur,
few think they will be the target.
“Most people know someone who has been scammed or lost money to fraud, but
most people still don’t think it will happen to them, but anyone can be
the target of a scam,” said Mr Kell.
Read more…
News, Rambles, Security
Facebook has been targeted by malicious hackers seeking to steal valuable data from members.
The social network site has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, say security experts.
By creating fake messages padded with details of Facebook members the thieves are capitalising on the trust and social links that drive the network.
Security firms warn that the popularity of social networking sites makes them a tempting target for hi-tech thieves. Read more…
News, PHP Applications, Rambles, Scripting & Coding, Security, Software
AMD Opteron
AMD is putting the spotlight on its upcoming six-core 45-nanometer AMD Opteron processor, code-named Istanbul, with live demonstrations on YouTube. The x86 six-core processor is designed for systems with two and four or more sockets, and is due in the second half of this year.
Istanbul is compatible with current AMD Opteron processor-based systems, and to prove this, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. demonstrated on YouTube a live upgrade of a system based on 45-nm quad-core AMD Opteron processors to the six-core Istanbul processors. According to the time-lapsed video, the upgrade took more than eight minutes.
AMD claims Istanbul provides better performance and efficiency than other Opteron chips, and a simple performance demonstration on YouTube shows four Istanbul processors operating and running virtual machines.
Source: techtarget.com
Feeds, Science & Tech
6 Core, AMD, New Tech, Opteron
