The Storm has been spreading steadily since last January, gradually constructing a huge botnet. It affects only computers running Microsoft Windows, but that means that more than 90 per cent of the world’s PCs are vulnerable.
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Basking in glory after orchestrating a record punishment for a petty file-sharer in the US, the RIAA takes its legal campaign to the next level. Many may want newsgroups to stay under the radar but it’s too late - major labels have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com and it won’t be going away.
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Ever wanted to see what your car would look like if a dummy drove it into a wall? Admit it, you think about it when you get a lousy trade-in price. Thankfully, there’s the Consumer Reports Crash Test videos, where you can see how your car will hold up against things like short concrete walls and other typical objects found along a highway.
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This is a list of places blurred out on Google Maps. What could possibly be here?
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Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two minutes.
Note:
128-bit WEP is 104-bit key + 24-bit initialization vector.
In plain english: This attack is against 128-bit WEP, they just refer it by the actual key size.
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Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off before starting work on the box. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2
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So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or…? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260072898580
Go to the bottom of this auction and check out the pictures this guy hot-linked in to my site. I sold the same item on ebay a few weeks ago, which is probably how he/she found the images they initially hot-linked to. They were legit pictures of the GPS system they are trying to sell. That is, until I checked my web logs and saw someone leaching my bandwidth.
I’ll save on typing time and let the pictures do the explaining on this one.
I could have done much worse to this person. A friend suggested I goatse the guy. But not only would that be cruel, it would probably be illegal and piss off my hosting provider if they ever found out.
If the auction images have been fixed or taken down, you can check out a mirror I made here.
This is why you should never hot-link to content on other people’s sites.