Archive for January, 2005

Busy Busy

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Well busy again, pretty good week after last weeks stupid project which wasted a perfectly good work day, this week has been pretty good. Three days working on the project I was doing before christmas and was working on for a couple of days last week to fill in the ...

What I miss about living in London

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Well up until moving to London I've had a cat, I'm a cat person, I loath and despise dogs. When I moved to London I had to leave my cat with my parents because I couldn't keep one in my flat I had in Shepards Bush. Since getting married it ...

Security Researchers Screwed By the Law Again

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

I’m always insensed by the actions of companies that when a security researcher publishes something bad (i.e. vulnerabilities) about their products they decide to go legal instead of actually fessing up and fixing their shoddy software.I remember the case of the Russian that was arrested at Defcon in Vegas in ...

Minor Fubar

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

Well the VDot Server suffered a minor hickup last night just after I went to bed which is a bit of a bitch.Sometime around midnight one of the disk controllers threw a wobbly and refused to talk to the disks. Not entirely sure why this happens but it has happened ...

Patch Day!!!

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Microsoft Patch day is here again, and we have three new security patches hitting WindowsUpdate today. Two of the vulnerabilities are rated Critical and the final one is rated important.Get your patches today, you never know tomorrow you could get rooted..  

Is MS AntiSpyware That good

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Well after a little tip off and some investigation it could be that it isn’t really that good. It seems sometimes MS AntiSpyware only uses a file location check to determine if something is spyware or not. For more have a look at our new item on VDot here

Well Got a response…

Monday, January 10th, 2005

Well earlier this evening I got a response. It reminded me of a couple of other email's this company have sent to other companies in fact, it was pretty much exactly the same, bar a couple of specifics for the particular case. All I’m going to say here after a ...

Hmm… No response..

Monday, January 10th, 2005

Well this morning I sent another very snotty email to Allresearch as a formal Cease and Desist after I’d calmed down a little after my first posting about this.. I gave them a final 24 hours, just for completeness I copied the email to every email address on the Allresearch site ...

Our little friends allresearch.com

Monday, January 10th, 2005

Well it has been 3 days since the ban and one very snotty email to them and yet still no response. These muppets are 10 minutes away from an official complaint to law enforcement, for copyright thief and hacking offences. They continue to access virus.org/">VDot now illegally so a report ...

More Exposure

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

Well VDot got some more exposure today from Hackinthebox with two stories making it to their front page..