The rootkit menace

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Database rootkit menace looms

Database rootkit menace looms 04/04/2005 04:38 AM
Check against delivery

The MBA Menace

The MBA Menace 06/09/2004 06:10 AM
Management theorist and critic Henry Mintzberg has a few choice words for all you newly minted MBAs: The way you were taught management is all wrong.

The phantom menace?

The phantom menace? 03/25/2005 04:10 PM
CNETAsia's Winston Chai wonders whether it's too early to hit the panic button on mobile viruses.

RDF - Messiah or Menace?

RDF - Messiah or Menace? 11/18/2002 08:55 AM

"The Cuddly Menace"

"The Cuddly Menace" 02/06/2005 03:40 AM

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.8

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.8 09/12/2004 12:44 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.7

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.7 08/29/2004 08:49 AM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.6

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.6 08/18/2004 02:41 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.4

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.4 08/07/2004 10:25 AM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Revealer

Rootkit Revealer 03/25/2005 11:42 PM

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.2

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.2 07/14/2004 05:05 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.00 RC3

Rootkit Hunter 1.00 RC3 12/20/2003 06:11 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.0

Rootkit Hunter 1.1.0 06/22/2004 04:00 AM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.00 RC1

Rootkit Hunter 1.00 RC1 12/07/2003 11:35 AM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.00 RC2

Rootkit Hunter 1.00 RC2 12/15/2003 11:34 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.0.7

Rootkit Hunter 1.0.7 04/27/2004 04:02 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Rootkit Hunter 1.0.8

Rootkit Hunter 1.0.8 05/10/2004 04:28 PM
A file scanner for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?

Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace? 11/11/2003 04:30 PM
Gartner's information security and risk research director dismisses cyberterrorism as a "theory."

The Personal Surfing Menace

The Personal Surfing Menace 06/29/2004 02:15 PM
What is it with filtering companies and their need to put out fear-filled studies about just how many people are (gasp!) surfing non-work sites at work? Plenty of studies have shown that a little personal personal surfing at work may be a good thing for productivity and employee health and morale. It lets them recharge their batteries, as well as take care of personal business that might drag them fully away from work otherwise. However, companies that sell filters always feel the need to bring it up as if it's some sort of horrible office problem. That's true in the latest study by some random web filtering company that points out that people see other employees at work surfing shopping and news sites all the time. What's amusing is that, rather than asking people if they do these things, the survey asks them only if they've "seen others" do it -- and then follows it up by noting that 35% were "bothered" by seeing others shopping online while 29% were bothered by others' sports surfing. First off, just because so many people see others doing it, it doesn't mean that they all are. In an office of 100 people, there could be one person doing personal surfing (1%), but everyone could see them, giving a response of 99% - so the numbers are misleading. Second, there's no indication of other issues related to what bothers people. If you see someone who isn't getting their work done at all, then perhaps it makes sense to be bothered to find out they're checking up on the latest scores. However, if they're productive, who cares? Why should it matter if one employee is bothered that another is surfing a sports site? Perhaps that employee is bothered that the other one keeps peaking over the cubicle wall to see what they're surfing. Maybe the company should start making taller cubicles to protect against that "bothersome" issue. The study also plays the "oh no! porn!" card to scare people as well -- warning that office workers are often "accidentally" exposed to porn. What's really amusing here is that, unlike with the personal surfing questions (which ask about co-workers' activities), the questions on porn surfing were asked of the worker themselves, making it much more likely that they'll say it was an "accident." When you do so something, it's an accident. When someone else does it, it's problematic. But, don't worry, this filtering company will solve all those problems...

The Phantom Controller Menace

The Phantom Controller Menace 05/13/2004 05:03 PM
JANE PINCKARD -- The Phantom is officially on display at E3 - as discussed earlier this week on Gizmodo. As reported, it will have no external ports. That means no piracy, people! Arrr! Rumors of this platform were thought to be a hoax at first ... because wouldn't you have...

Is there a rootkit hunter in your
arsenal?

Is there a rootkit hunter in your
arsenal? 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
It's been about three years since I woke up one morning and discovered my Web/mail server was rooted. Thinking back, I must have assumed that just running Linux was enough to keep me out of harm's way. These days I am not so cocky. I try to keep current with security patches for the apps I run. I don't run services I don't need or use. And there is a firewall between me and the wild. One thing I haven't made a part of my regular routine -- not yet, at least -- is checking for rootkits on a regular basis. That may be about to change, since I found a nifty little project called rootkit hunter.

Unholy trio menace Firefox

Unholy trio menace Firefox 04/19/2005 09:21 AM
Critical update for Mozilla and Firefox

ChoicePoint Wins Menace Award

ChoicePoint Wins Menace Award 04/16/2005 04:53 AM
The data broker takes top honors at this year's U.S. Big Brother Awards, which spotlight invasive privacy practices in business and government. Other winners include a California elementary school and the Department of Education. By Joanna Glasner.

Root out the administrative password
menace

Root out the administrative password
menace 03/28/2005 10:31 AM
ZDNet India Mar 28 2005 1:59PM GMT

Computers in hospitalsβ€”an electronic
menace?

Computers in hospitalsβ€”an electronic
menace? 06/05/2005 10:53 PM

The hospital is somewhere you generally go to in order to get better. Unfortunately, you can also catch some nasty bugs there. A recent study has fingered an unlikely culprit for some the problem—the computer.

Computers quickly become magnets for airborne dust and bacteria-harboring dirt, which builds up on their internal cooling fans. The fans represent a further health hazard because of their potential to blow that same dust around a ward.

Maybe Apple should bring back the Cube along with some bacteria-resistant keyboards...

There is other science news including some possible very unwelcome side effects of some erectile dysfunction drugs and the problems of synthetic estrogens in the environment. Dig in to this week's Science.Ars!

Downloading comics: threat or menace?

Downloading comics: threat or menace? 01/06/2005 12:14 PM
Cory Doctorow: A comics fan who thinks downloading comics is immoral posted a long rant to a message board, urging readers to shun comics-trading sites. The debate that follows has several excellent posts -- but the most interesting ones come from fanatical comics-buyers who download books they already own in hardcopy because it's a "good way to be able to go back and reread a book without running the risk of damaging it" and so forth.

The comics industry has been creaking and threatening collapse for as long as I've been reading funnybooks. One thing that's always frustrated me is the incomprehensible lag between the monthly books and the bound collections: if you wander into a bookstore and discover issues 1-5 of Y: The Last Man or Issues 1-5 of Fables (both stone brilliant; run, don't walk) and fall in love, why you can go on to pick up the subsequent collections, three or four books each in all. Now, say you've read up to issue 20 of Fables and you don't want to wait for the next collection to come out: you want to take the plunge and become a regular, monthly comics reader. You go down to your local comics store and say, "Please sell me issues 21 through the current issue of Fables, and put the current ish aside for me every month: I'm hooked!"

What usually happens is the comics person will say, "Sorry, we've got issue 25, which is the current one, and number 24, but that's it -- the older ones are out of print." In other words, you got on the Fables boat too late and you're not going to be able to catch up with the book in comics form without buying issues from collectors or off of eBay.

So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores? My guess is that the kind of comics reader who downloads issues so that he won't be "running the risk of damaging" the hard-copy will continue to buy as many comics as ever.

But if you believe the comics industry, it's going broke selling to just the people who put their comics in mylar bags and stack them in hermetic vaults. Funnybooks need to attract a civilian audience who will dip their toes in from time to time, buy the occassional collection, read one or two books a month: it needs a LOT of those people.

The bound collections are a great way to hook new readers. They're retailed in regular book-stores, so they're visible to the kind of person who never goes into a Graphic Novelle Emporium. All that's missing is a way to turn collection readers into monthly-plus-collection readers. The Web could be that way. Scott McCloud has written some brilliant stuff about what a comic that's designed for the Web should look like, but here's the whole other way to use the Web to advance the comics biz: give old issues away to bridge the gap between customer acquisition and customer retention.

Here's at least one comics dealer who sees free downloads of comics driving his business:

This is a message from Derithian who for some reason newsarama wont let him post it......maybe I just need to restart but I'm to busy right now RUNNING A COMIC SHOP!

I am going to come out and say it; I am a member of the z-cult. Not only that I'm a forum mod. To say anything different would put what I say in a different light. I found the Cult about a month after it started. I hadn't read a comic in more than 5 years and hated it all. Comic books were for kids and stupid. Then I downloaded because someone told me I had to read something. So I read it. A month later I opened my own shop.

Not only did I open my own shop, I sell comics to foreign members of z-cult from my shop who are interested in buying books but aren't in areas where you can buy them. Interesting isn't it. You can say all you want that downloading hurts the industry when I have personally because of the cult put tens of thousands of dollars back into the industry. Not to mention I started my own comic development studio to publish local writers online.

Link (Thanks, Max!)

Software bots could menace Google ads

Software bots could menace Google ads 02/05/2005 10:05 PM

Rootkit Hunter 1.2.2 (Default branch)

Rootkit Hunter 1.2.2 (Default branch) 03/19/2005 03:22 AM
Rootkit Hunter scans files and systems for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers. The package contains one shell script, a few text-based databases, and optional Perl modules. It should run on almost every Unix clone.

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Changes:
This release adds support for Mandrake 10.1 and RHEL WS release 3. It fixes some small problems and improves/cleans up the source code.

Rootkit Hunter 1.2.3 (Default branch)

Rootkit Hunter 1.2.3 (Default branch) 03/22/2005 04:18 PM
Rootkit Hunter scans files and systems for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers. The package contains one shell script, a few text-based databases, and optional Perl modules. It should run on almost every Unix clone.

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Changes:
Whitelisting was added for hidden files and directories. Support for SuSE 9.2 (64 bits) was added. The manpage was updated. The package database and MD5 hash database were updated. The installer was improved, and some small bugs were fixed.

Twin Storms Menace Florida, Caribbean

Twin Storms Menace Florida, Caribbean 08/12/2004 05:43 AM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 12 2004 10:31AM GMT

Phishing and viral tech combines in new
menace

Phishing and viral tech combines in new
menace 11/14/2003 08:05 AM
Mimail-I targets PayPal punters

Symantec fights auto-responder menace

Symantec fights auto-responder menace 05/14/2004 07:36 AM
No tsunamis swamping spoofed addys

Technology Strains to Find Menace in the
Crowd

Technology Strains to Find Menace in the
Crowd 05/30/2004 11:23 PM
New York Times May 31 2004 3:59AM GMT

Microsoft Worm Cleanser Goes Rootkit
Hunting

Microsoft Worm Cleanser Goes Rootkit
Hunting 04/13/2005 08:25 PM
The tool, which removes malicious software from Windows, can now detect Hacker Defender, a rootkit program popular among malicious hackers.

New release of Patchfinder2 (windows
rootkit detector)

New release of Patchfinder2 (windows
rootkit detector) 01/19/2004 03:07 PM
Joanna Rutkowska (Jan 18 2004)

Holy Father on rootkit writing for fun,
profit

Holy Father on rootkit writing for fun,
profit 03/17/2005 03:10 AM
The software developer behind a leading rootkit program says he is motivated by necessity, curiosity and a desire to expose weaknesses in the Windows operating system and security technology. He also isn't too worried about how others might use his software, according to an e-mail interview with IDG News Service.

Rootkit Web sites fall to DDOS attack

Rootkit Web sites fall to DDOS attack 04/11/2005 05:03 PM
Two prominent Web sites that specialize in remote access software known as "rootkits" have been taken offline by a large distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The take-down was allegedly ordered by a shadowy group of hackers and rootkit authors who took offense to criticisms of their software posted on the sites.

US wins David Blunkett Lifetime Menace
Award

US wins David Blunkett Lifetime Menace
Award 07/29/2004 06:35 AM
Big Brother awards 2004 VISIT program honoured

Rootkit Web Sites Fall to DDoS Attack
(PC World)

Rootkit Web Sites Fall to DDoS Attack
(PC World) 04/11/2005 07:37 PM
PC World - Denial of service follows criticism of some software authors' products.
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