Rodney Campbell's Blog

Bot nets likely behind jump in spam

A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used by spammers to stymie network defenses erected to curtail bulk email.

Bridging the Telecoms Skills Gap

The telecoms sector is booming once again, following five years of relative dormancy. The evidence is everywhere. In the UK alone there’s BT’s 21CN, which will see over 4500 exchanges swapped out in the coming years. Over the summer of this year, we saw the rollout of the UK’s first HDTV-ready, 10GB Ethernet infrastructure for Sky’s triple-play services.

Employee Privacy, Employer Policy

Two recent court cases where an employee’s reasonable expectation of privacy was more important than the employer’s ability to read any employee’s e-mail – despite a privacy policy that clearly stated any company e-mail can, and will, be monitored.

Net forum produces anti-spam plan

OECD at heart of global fight against evil email IGF Six of the world’s largest anti-spam organisations have set up a new website aimed at killing the online menace.

Hackers break into water system network

An infected laptop gave hackers access to computer systems at a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, water treatment plant earlier this month.

New Windows attack can kill firewall

Hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable the Windows Firewall on certain Windows XP machines. The code, which was posted on the Internet early Sunday morning, could be used to disable the Windows Firewall on a fully patched Windows XP PC that was running Windows’ Internet Connection Service (ICS)…
The attacker could send a malicious data packet to another PC using ICS that would cause the service to terminate. Because this service is connected to the Windows firewall, this packet would also cause the firewall to stop working.

myspace.com = 127.0.0.1?

MySpace entered a 127.0.0.1 (loopback) address into their DNS tonight causing 1/5 of requests to fail, brilliant!

Seagate Unveils Encrypted Notebook Drive

Seagate Technology on Monday announced another attempt at making a market for encrypted hard drives, and said it would start shipping units to notebook makers early next year.