The past 10 days has seen a big increase in Lizamoon activity. Stories about Lizamoon have reported anything from a few thousand site being attacked to 1.5 million. Some of the sites attacked have been high profile. So, what does Lizamoon really do? I created a honeypot site with a windows 2003 server running IIS. …
Category Archive: Security
Feb
18
Are Social Engineering attacks on the increase?
“Hello, I am calling because you have a virus on your computer”
Mar
28
Internet Security @ Home
Thanks to people losing the odd megabyte or 2 of important public data this is a topic that has been publicised a lot over the past couple of years. Microsoft have also made efforts in assisting home users in starting with a secure PC out of the box with the built in firewall and “Defender” to control malware. However, unless patched are applied and the system’s are kept upto date PC’s can soon become comprimised. It could also be said that the popularity of wireless and routers rather than “modems” has assisted in the protection of home computers/networks as generally out of the box they offer no direct route to a PC.
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