SSH back doors… and you.

Both Twitter and Facebook are facing Denial of Service (or Dos) attacks today. Twitter ended up going completely down, Facebook was able to weather the storm, although it was still a bit pokey at times. What is funny about this is how all the pundits say “their growth caused them to fail to anticipate this [...]

SSL has now officially been hijacked by hackers. With video of proof this hack, it is sure to be seen in the wild very soon. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and provides the basic security for all activity across the Internet. So the implications of such a hack are extremely far reaching. This begins [...]

Mint is a all encompassing website to help you track your financial data. The site has been fairly well received by most people. On the surface this site is a pretty good idea. Unlike programs like Quicken which need to be told to pull data (at least on Mac, I can’t speak for the Windows [...]

I apologize, this was going to be a quite lengthy article, but while researching it I found someone had already done a great job. Mattias Geniar wrote a VERY nice article on checking for bad processes. The only thing I could possibly add to this article is to use a file integrity checker such as [...]