Chinese Domain Name Scare Tactic

Published September 20, 2010 | By InetDaemon

I received the an e-mail trying to scare me into purchasing a Chinese domain name.

Wireless Mouse with 3-year battery life

Published July 18, 2010 | By InetDaemon

I have a wireless computer mouse I purchased some years ago, a Logitech MX 700. The rechargeable batteries for the mouse are nearing the end of their lifespan–they won’t hold a charge for more than a few days. Worse, the blinking red dead-battery indicator on the top of my mouse blinks constantly, which is annoying. The buttons on the mouse don’t quite work the way they used to and the paint has worn off the plastic wherever it touched my hand. The mouse lasted six years, a respectable time for a computer mouse, but it’s time for it to crawl off to that place all mice go to die.

I decided to go looking for a replacement mouse with a bit longer battery life. I found the Logitech Wireless Marathon Mouse M705 which has a 3-year battery life, and favorable reviews.

Even though the mouse isn’t rechargeable, three years between battery replacements is a huge improvement.

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Latest Distributed SSH Brute Force Attacks

Published June 19, 2010 | By InetDaemon

SSH (Secure SHell) is a common tool for setting up a “VPN tunnel” using port forwarding, or secure remote access to the command line; thus it is not uncommon for servers providing SSH connections to be directly accessible from the Internet.

Hackers are constantly testing defenses looking for configurations that missed something important and therefore allow access. SSH daemon configurations that improperly turned off keyboard-interactive logons but forgot to enable the “ChallengeResponseAuthentication no” are being attacked.

From SANS:

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Distributed SSH Brute Force Attacks.

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