I’ve been messing around a bit with the Hawking PN9245F router that I’ve got the home network and cable modem running through. I put it through some firewall tests and port scans, and it’s got me running in full stealth mode for the moment. Gotta’ love that! It wasn’t even all that difficult to setup…
Interesting observation day. I had a bunch of errands to run today, mostly involved with ordering stuff for a holiday party my wife and I are having next weekend. I had interaction with 3 different people who I needed to get help from. All of them were extremely helpful, and nice and went out of…
BadTrans is out there and looking quite active, at least based on the number of infected emails I’ve seen come bouncing into our network here at work. We did have one person get infected, two days after I posted a warning about it, and instructions on dealing with it, which is quite frustrating. Turns out…
news.telegraph.co.uk – EU considers plans to outlaw racism This is scary. This is total “thought police” kind of stuff.
Sorry for the delay, lost ftp connection to the site again for a day. It was supposed to be because they were moving it to a new server, but I still can’t get the file permissions changed, which was why they were moving it to begin with. Who knows? We did get a new cable…
News UK: BT admits sending internet virus to its customers. Ouch, that’s a rather embarrassing thing for an ISP to have to admit. Of course if people had kept their browser upgrades and patches up to date it wouldn’t matter who sent it to them, it couldn’t hurt them. Guess that’s asking too much though,…