Archive for February, 2006

Interesting Malware of the day

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Well there is a new mobile phone Trojan out that uses J2ME which means it can target a wider range of devices. Called Redbrowser it is designed for the Russian market and seems to trick users into sending expensive SMS by claiming to be a WAP browser that uses a ...

Woot Fuhrer Ken gets a suspension

Friday, February 24th, 2006

It seems that Fuhrer Ken Livingstone will be getting a suspension for bringing the office of the Mayor of London into disrepute.

Wordpress

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Decided to try our WordPress on the main journal site, managed to sort cross posting to LiveJournal too. May tweak the template for the WordPress version of the blog over the next few days.

FYI

Monday, February 20th, 2006

For the person that knows me that has a Demon IP and added the following SURL to the ShortURL service, yes I do read the urls that people put in there http://surl.ws/Egzq6

Short URLs

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Got bored so knocked this together SURL.WS a short URL service. Running OSX, using PHP and MySQL. Seems to work..

Going live soon..

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Well I'm planning to make the scanning service fully live next week as an 'Open Beta'. Had some nice response today from one of the companies that produce one of the AV products I've integrated into the scanning site, those nice people from Minsk have provided me a license for ...

More Scanners

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Upto to 15 now, added NOD32, VBA32 (scanner from Minsk Belarus, the home of the wife) and finally Ikarus PSCAN from a small Austria AV firm.

Scanning

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

The scanning site is moving on, got 12 scanners on there which was my first goal. They all seem to be ticking over and working. Every now and then I get a file that triggers a condition I've not met for handling a particular file type. Been impressed by the coverage ...