by Joseph Forbes | Jan 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals
A week ago TorrentFreak had the honor to reveal the full details of Verizon’s implementation of the upcoming “copyright alerts” system. In short, the Internet provider will notify customers whose accounts are caught sharing pirated movies and music, and after four...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog Entry, SECURITY
Two of the most common forms of network address translation (NAT) are dynamic port address translation (PAT) and static NAT. PAT is the many-to-one form of NAT implemented in many small office and home networks where many internal hosts, typically using RFC 1918...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, SECURITY
Fixing a website “hack” is actually a fairly heavy technical thing to do. Most bloggers are not webmasters. They are not really technical people. They’re probably people who simply purchased a web hosting account, maybe set up WordPress using a one-click install, and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY
The hole trick How Skype & Co. get round firewalls Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator’s nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2012 | Malware Reports, SECURITY
Description: An encoded javascript (or a redirection to it) was detected, leading browsers to the Blackhole Exploit kit (v1.x). It attempts to exploit the browser of anyone visiting the site using a combination of multiple vulnerabilities (Java, Adobe PDF, Flash and...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support
As an official patch is yet to become available, Microsoft has released a temporary Fix-it tool to close a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer web browser. According to a blog post by Yunsun Wee, Trustworthy Computing Director at Microsoft, the company...
