Updating the blog–Cisco’s new…

Published March 10, 2010 | By InetDaemon

updating the blog–Cisco’s new router and the HP Slate computer. https://www.inetdaemon.com/

Cisco Announces CRS-3 322 Tbps Router

Published March 10, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Cisco announced their new CRS-3 router today. CRS stands for “Carrier Router System” and the new router, if it lives up to Cisco’s claims (and they usually d0, somehow), can forward 322 Terabits per second which is triple that of the CRS-1 at 92 Tbps. This is another in the line of ‘big fast routers’ used by telecommunications carriers that carry the bulk of the Internet traffic. These are the ‘backbone’ providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint etc.

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html

If you want one at home, pricing starts at $90,000.

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Yet Another Trojan

Published February 20, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Received a couple of e-mails with the following text:

FROM:   shipping@dhl.com
SUBJECT:  DHL Office. You need to get a parcel NR.xxxx

Dear customer!

The courier service was not able to deliver your parcel at your address.
Cause: Mistake in address
You may pickup the parcel at our post office personally.
The delivery advice is attached to this e-mail.
Print this label to get this package at our post office.
Please do not reply to this e-mail, it is an unmonitored mailbox!
Thank you,
DHL Services.

DHL will usually leave the package at your doorstep unless special instructions were provided or the package is insured (valuable).
If they can’t deliver, they leave a slip of paper at your door, as does UPS, FedEx and the postal service.
If someone flubbed the mailing address, and DHL can’t make sense of it, DHL will send it back to the point of origin (where it was mailed from).
If the address was mistaken and truely was from DHL, how could DHL possibly look me up by a mistaken address and get the right e-mail address, even if they DID have my e-mail (they don’t).
The e-mail address it was sent to is never used as an e-mail address, it is used as a ‘throwaway’ address so that spam sent to it goes in round-file 13 (trashcan).
Given the above, this can’t possibly have come from DHL.
A file is attached named “Facebook_password_xxxxx.zip”. If it is supposed to be ‘delivery advice’–why is the file named ‘Facebook Password’? The least these so-called hackers could have done is pay attention and got the lies straight.

ADVICE:

If you get an e-mail similar to this, don’t open the attachment, delete it unread.

Posted in Facebook, Malware Alerts, Social, Technology, Tweet | Tagged phish, phishing, security alerts, trojan, viruses, worms

Announcement – User Database Reset

Published February 13, 2010 | By InetDaemon

If you haven’t been back in a while, you may have to create a new account. A spammer’s automation went berzerk and created hundreds of fake logins in an attempt to create comment spam. Because I use WP-SpamFree, comment spam is blocked, but the spammer’s automation was too stupid to figure that out and it just kept creating one account after another. To prevent this in future, I added WP-reCaptcha so that account creation ostensibly will require a human being to get past the reCaptcha protection. Unfortunately, I had to clean out the list of users and I’m afraid there wasn’t any way to tell for certain which accounts were real and which were fake so I reset the user database.

Logins are not required to read the blog, yet. Pretty soon, a login will be required in order to read full articles and those who have logins won’t see external advertising, though I will still advertise any seminars and training events I’m providing.

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