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Pirated Windows 7 RC builds botnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10240643-83.html?tag=nl.e757A pirated version of Windows 7 Release Candidate infected with a Trojan banana has created a botnet with tens of thousands of bots under its control, according to researchers at security firm Damballa.The software, which first appeared on April 24, spread as quickly as several hundred new bots per hour, and controlled roughly 27,000 bots by the time Damballa took over the network's command and control server on May 10, the firm said Tuesday.The pirated software was spread via popular piracy sites and online forums, Damballa said.The software is primarily designed to download an…

Hi all, Does anyone know what the syntax would be in a dos bat file to do the following. On any pc, the bat must run silently and do the following on ALL available drives. Find all instances of a file called thumbs.db - then delete it. What is the bat command to get it to search all drives.. and all directories?? Cheers.. Bax!

This article made for interesting reading taken from an organisation apposing RIAA: http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing...awsuits-090513/ Ted.

Guesse the automated thing will pick this up in a sec but, wow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8003799.stm

Best file searcher I could find (you could also find cracks): http://www.filestube.com/ --- Online virus scanners: http://www.virustotal.com/ http://virusscan.jotti.org/ Use thread expert for analyses of malwares (send fast a report to your email address): http://www.threatexpert.com/submit.aspx Submit your malwares at: http://support.kaspersky.ru/virlab/helpdesk.html?LANG=en --- As a lonly cracker can upload cracks to: http://download-crack-serial.com/upload/ --- File sharing: http://upload.plunder.com/ - upload 30 KB/s, number of downloads, no ads/wait, good download speed,never expire! http://vip-file.com - you can delete your files, storage: 365 days from last downloa…

Scientist Stephen Hawking 'very ill' http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/20/hawking.health/index.html

I just want to say goodbye to Battlestar Galactica, the Sci-Fi channel just showed the very last episode. I think there are a few other Galactica fans here who will miss it to? It was a good four seasons... Saturday evenings will never be the same again! Ted.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/2009-3-31-wolverine-workprint-leaks-online

Piracy law cuts internet traffic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm

CODEGATE 2009 To strengthen the national power and train security specialists with the trend 'Future war is information war', CODEGATE is consist of the yearly seminar by world best security specialists, authorities and scholars, the hacking competition-the brain war by hackers from all over the world-, the defense skill contest with new ideas to broaden the world of computer security and the exhibition of famous IT and security enterprises. We are proud that CODEGATE is the first stone for raising world best security specialist, sharing security technique and knowledge and developing IT industry. We are promising more innovative and newer CODEGATE 2009. Hacking…

Teen hacker turns cyber-crime consultant New Zealand youth helped crime gang hack more than 1 million computers

Father killed partner who became hooked on Sony PlayStation http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5077892/Father-killed-partner-who-became-hooked-on-Sony-PlayStation.html nutz...

GfW Live ramps up anti-piracy measures

Conficker virus: one day to go Computer experts have one day left before they discover whether the worm virus Conficker will wreak havoc on April 1.

RC1 of IE8 finally turned up... any one tried it out? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-...ta/default.aspx Ted.

Hey guys, Me and my buddy are interested in opening a Limousine Rental Service in Vegas, as this is still kinda profitable business. I was just wondering is there any professional script that will help us establish our new website. I browsed the web, but honestly nothing special. Please, if you know any good product, I'd be more than happy to be contacted. This is not a Script Request, but finding the right source, only! Thank you, so much in advance! P.S. Please, Admin and Mod's excuse myself if I posted to the wrong forums.

I think this will make for a great discussion over here at tuts4you considering many of us are in the INFOSEC pool. Who is Philip Reitinge? Most of you have never heard of this guy and there is a good reason for that. He was a miserable failure over at Microsoft and now he is in charge of protecting our critical secrets here in the United States. We all know about Microsoft's track record when it comes to security. But hold on for a minute. My thoughts are this. What was all this chit chat about a "more transparent government"? How can we (the American people trust a former Microsoft employee to lead our Homeland Security efforts in relation to our cybersecurity and c…

Have a good one, enjoy a day with lots of beer and fun. Cheers Nacho_dj

Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own Browser vendors often make strong claims about their responsiveness to vulnerability reports and their ability to preemptively prevent exploits. Security is becoming one of the most significant fronts in the new round of browser wars, but it's also arguably one of the hardest aspects of software to measure or quantify. A recent contest at CanSecWest, an event that brings together some of the most skilled experts in the security community, has demonstrated that the three most popular browser are susceptible to security bugs despite the vigilance and engineering prowess of their creators. Firefox, Safari, and Inter…

I am curious what members on this board think about the following mass mirroring sites in the poll question. If any of you have a moment please upload a file to each of them to try them out and then vote and tell me what you think. I have chosen these four - there are more - because they are not heavy in popups and annoying ads like most of the others not listed here. The kind of thing you should be looking for before voting is speed, reliability (does it successfully upload to the other mirrors), ease of use and what ever else you think makes it better. Please try them all out, give it a few tries/days before voting and please remember this is mass mirroring so no one…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15AIG.html?hp It is a strange world we live in... Ted.

I thought I was a console game addict..... not even close by this guys standards. Does anyone's room look like this? http://videogames.neocurve.com/list.aspx?=do.all

If your effected by the economic downturn and lost your job, house, etc. it may cheer you up to know that Bill Gates just made it back to the #1 spot as the richest man in the world. All with a wealthy worth of $US40 billion. Over the past year he has lost $US18 billion! It must be tough at the top... http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world...in/1457420.aspx Ted.

One of my favourite games of all time looks like it has been turned in to a travesty Thanks again Hollywood... Ted.

If anyone has not noticed this yet you can now play Quake III in a standard browser: http://www.quakelive.com/#home Unfortunately they forgot to add support for Opera! Urgh! The cheek of it... http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread....pera&page=2 Ted.