Is malware in your network?

How can you tell if malware is in your network? As the PCRE post at Internet Storm Center says: You can check your logfiles for certain signatures using “Perl Compatible Regular Expressions” (PCRE) Perl is a scripting programming language perl.com gets into some of it’s details. Of course that assumes you have a proxy server and … Read more

Change Default Passwords Online Cams

The site http://insecam.com/  has set up  thousands of links to insecure cameras that are online.  4717 cameras in USA including many that are inside homes.  A couple in New Jersey  http://www.insecam.cc/cam/bycity/Absecon/ Including Chesterfield, MO http://www.insecam.cc/cam/bycountry/US/?page=120 Please log into your camera and change the default password. Changing default passwords should be  done to all devices right when you … Read more

Windows2003 security updates end Jul2015

US-CERT (Computer Emergeny Readyness Team)  reminds us that Support is ending soon(July 14, 2015). Microsoft says there are 24 million instances still running 2003 server. It is time to upgrade, for those of you still running Windows Server 2003, or at least put in a plan to replace the system with a 2012 machine by … Read more

Website Phish hijacks email accounts

Garwarner Blog post reveals some details of  various posts on the Internet that discuss the paper written by Google and other University of San Diego residents Here is the Abstract: “Online accounts are inherently valuable resources—both for the data they contain and the reputation they accrue over time. Unsurprisingly, this value drives criminals to steal, … Read more

Patch Tuesday Report November 2014

Patch Tuesday has passed, but the ramifications have not.  All over sysadmins are deciding what patches to apply and when.   Here is the report of what is happening: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2992611    MS14-066 Schannel vulnerability is a bad remote code execution bug (must be patched) Internet Storm Center recommends this is a patch now kind of … Read more