Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

Many Connections to weird Ports??

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Well, I saw this title in one of our analytics &I have not had the pleasure of writing about computer security related topics for awhile. So, I think its time for one. This question came directly from a major search engine & some how this person landed on my blog. I will be coving ‘weird connections to TCP/IP ports’, while, this spans all operating systems that have some sort of connection to other computers over any distance(excluding Firewire, USB, parallel ports.) What you will need to know is first some basic information on TCP packet and IP(extremely basic nothing to indepth about headers as it will go beyond the scope of the article). Secondly, how to check up on what is happening with some cool, built in commands everyone should know that owns a computer. Finally, we will figure out if anything fishy is happening on the local computer in regards to worms, trojens etc. by an examination of the ports that are showing as opened and/or listening.

Web Fraud And How To Spot It

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

So today I received a letter from a person identifying themselves as the I.R.S. after reading through this email I was kind of worried. I was not worried about the I.R.S. at all but more for the safety of other people, in whom this fraudulent site can really hurt. so I have decided to post on ways to not get your identity and bank account information stolen.

first and foremost here is the email in which i received:

Subject:
IRS Notification - Tax Refund - Attention Required
From:
“I R S”<notification@system.irs.net>

XP Vs Vista Security

Monday, June 9th, 2008

By:Adam

Well, its been awhile since I was able to write about security.. In this post I will evaluate differences of XP VS Vista security features. I think many will be surprised on the findings. The evaluation will consist of Local Security & remote security as it stands out of the box.

Lets examine security.

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Its amazing to me what tactics black hats will use for the sake of SEO. Some, illegal by US & international law. Some Blackhats will go much further than just doing the plain, old type of gaming Google listed in the earlier post, they will turn to computer crime. I would like to take a minute and actually get on the topic that I love, computer security & how you can prevent your blog/web page from getting hacked via XSS.