The number of websites spreading badware (spyware, malware, and deceptive adware) is rising in an alarming rate; in many cases, the websites are otherwise victims of malicious hacking. Badware is malicious application that tracks your online behavior and pumps that information back to insincere marketing groups so that they can assail you with targeted ads. [...]
Archive for May, 2007
BadWare and SpyBye
Posted in Security on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes in April
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes in April – One of the emotional yet disquieting movies I have ever watched; based on true events of gruesome Rwanda genocide which compliments Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda (Nominated for 3 Oscars [...]
Run any Linux flavor from a USB Flash without Re-booting Windows
Posted in Tech Bits on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My favorite bootable Linux live-systems are KNOPPIX and BlackTrack, both pretty handy and I would recommend to any Security aficionado. Both primarily designed to be used as a live CD, but to run hard disk or a flash disk is a quite a messy task. But not until now…
I really want to carry a secure [...]
It’s a Boy
Posted in Personal on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I received a SMS from Duminda around 5ish in the morning saying “Thanuja gave a Birth to a Baby Boy.” I jumped off the bed with excitement and called my friend to pass on my good wishes. During the last week I called him twice to confirm the expected date of confinement, when I rang [...]
Finding needle in the haystack – Need for Intelligent Scanning
Posted in Security on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to growing Vulnerability Scanning space, predominantly there are two classes of scanning. There is the “noisily scan – everything and look for all possible static signatures/holes” otherwise “quietly find for relevant signatures/holes”. Most adamant will always look for “aggressive” option in nmap rest want to be none-disruptive yet none intrusive methods, nevertheless [...]
