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Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
Lately, the bad guys have been using iframe in comments, in order to grabthe content of a spam web page and attempt to show it at the site with theinjected comment. Kind of interesting, as much as it is simple:Viagra Gadi Evron.
Filed at 12:59pm
Editor · Storage
Joerg, over at c0t0d0s0.org pointed to a good article by Paul Murphy about the Economics of ZFS over at ZDnet.He is responding to another article that proposed to estimate the OLTP price/performance of various boxes, including Solaris 10/ZFS boxes, without taking into account the cost advantages of fast software RAID.The money quoteMurphy says the .
Filed at 2:06pm
Editor · Patch Management
On the 11th day of Christmas, here's a script we use that's good for moving beyond the simple port check. This script connects to your SMTP gateway and then performs a string comparison against the server response data to determine service health. Really, this script could be modified to perform a check against any number of TCP-based services. This particular example is hard coded to port 25 to perform an SMTP check.
Filed at 6:41pm
Editor · Software Development
Have you ever wanted to convert a pdf file into another format but had no means to do so? Or better yet, have you ever wanted to convert an aa3 file (i.e. iTunes song) to a Windows media format? I have to admit these are both annoying and irritating situations without the proper software install. Fret no longer as Zamzar is here to help.
Filed at 7:25pm
Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
Hey, do I smell history repeating itself? Bots on IRC used to be useful too, and then used for local flooding. Only later did they become the botnets that they are today. So, from automated playing when you are not around to keep stuff active (rings a bell?) to botnets that throw… privates at...
Filed at 10:48pm