Descovered a few days ago, this new security breach can now let someone to take remote-control of the infected Windows box! To be safe, you should not download any JPEG files with Explorer 😉 See http://asia.cnet.com/news/security/0,39037064,39194791,00.htm Need to surf safely? Try this 😉
Category: Security
Linux SSH scanning story
There exists a multithreaded SSH bruteforcer called “haita” which try to login with ‘guest’ or ‘test’ (and same password). Read the full story on the incident@securityfocus.com mailinglist. An admin let the attacker break in a system (some kind of honeypot) and talk to him on IRC: Shell commands and IRC