User: neptune1

port 4444, ! port 444

On: Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains

"indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked. "

This *should* state port 4444 where the trojan lives.

*reality* if you don't NEED a port open, don't open it.

Re:Does this mean..

On: Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows

Windows crashes all the time without informing you anyway...

Recommend Perl: The Complete Reference

On: Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules

Perl: The Complete Reference is a very good and easy to read and understand perl book. Its somewhat old but still a great book.

Embrace and extend

On: Inkblot Passwords

So do we get to embrace and extend this into something useful instead of the usual vice versa?

hardware issues due to distributed clients

On: Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work

A while back I ran the distributed.net client on a number of machines. I noticed the machines that ran the client suffered significantly more hardware failures than the machines that were not running it. I removed the client from all machines and noticed the relibility of those machines increased.

Has anyone else seen similar? Have their been any studies on this?

disappointed

On: Scenes From Bob Young's New Tech Circus

I was very disappointed in the event. If you were interested in any of the speaking tracks it would have been worthwhile, however I didn't have a need for most of presentations.

There were more people there working Saturday afternoon than there were people in attendance.

This was only the first one so hopefully the shows will come around.