Archive for the ‘linux’ Category

SSH Security and Attacks

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Something that has been in the tech news recently is a rise in SSH attacks: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518 One reason for the increase in these attacks could be related to the recent Debian security issues: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212 I remember several years ago I had a similar problem - I was seeing a lot of connections to port 22 ...

Laptop update - all the stuff you don’t see

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I always use more than one virus scanner. I know it takes more time, but if you look at the results below it will be come clear. Originally I tried just to clean the laptop with spybot to get an idea of just how infected it was. When I came ...

New Favorite Tool

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Trinity Rescue Kit is my new favorite tool. It is doing wonders for that laptop I mentioned before. I just thought I'd link to them and give a shout out.