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Around here we know of the ColoCrossing spoofable network and the interest such attracts from HackF*rums.   In a similar spoof, someone on HF has created or renamed an account to promote ColoCrossing:     This should get interesting as a takedown isn't going to happen with HF.

eBay account security communication partner warning I logged into Ebay (where I buy a good amount of random stuff regularly) to find a love letter from Ebay.  The letter copied below says about a 'hack' of a member's account.  It fails to mention which account was compromised or what...

US based office equipment retailer Staples has agreed to buy rival Office Depot for $6.3 billion. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/officedepot-ma-staples-idUSL4N0VD5RW20150204 In other news, my local Office Depot long ago closed. My local Staples is randomly shopped in at best.  ...

source: https://documentation.solusvm.com/display/DOCS/v1.16#v1.16-1.16.05 1.16.05 Released: 02 February 2015 SolusVM version 1.16.05 is a maintenance release primarily to improve the current feature set of the 1.x branch. Ongoing information on the 2.x branch can be found here. 1.16.05...

HIRING: Systems Administrator – REMOTE WORKER I have a remote worker position available for a native English speaker or someone with high level comprehension English reading and writing. The position is paid monthly, and compensation will depend on your experience. This is a general purpose...

Deal done on January 16th.  Press announced then: PENTON ACQUIRES iNET INTERACTIVE, A LEADING EVENT AND DIGITAL INFORMATION COMPANY SERVING THE CLOUD, HOSTING AND DATA CENTER SEGMENTS   Acquisition continues strategy of growing leading event and digital/data-anchored positions Over 80% of...

Anyone here using a satellite internet provider currently or recently? Looking around for options / alternatives.  Appears the providers have stepped things up quite a bit with more speeds and larger use on plans.   Exede most notably. I don't expect fiber-like latency and quality, just an...

Adobe, Autodesk and Corel have filed a lawsuit against mall clothing retailer Forever 21. The suit is over rampant software piracy and use of unlicensed software at Forever 21. https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3357050/adobevsforever21.0.pdf Good to see corporate America...

Had someone ask me about domain registration and registrars that offer free email with the domain registration. Anyone using a domain registrar or reseller that offers free email account(s) with the domain?  Real email here, not simple forwarding.

Many of us spend too many hours in semi isolation working from home.   With that comes all sorts of downsides, the lack of exercise, lack of social in real life, lack of well, generally the outside world. How about if your life wasn't so strange (well it is becoming more of the norm with fewer...

Over the course of four months, threat actors managed to make tens of thousands of dollars by redirecting the connections of cryptocurrency miners to mining pools they control, the research team at Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit reported on Thursday. According to researchers, the...

Someone was poking around Vultr tonight and looking at CPU related info.   Reason why?   Hardware builds there are clouded in mystery. cat /proc/cpuinfo outputs semi-vague info.... there at Vultr... The Storage VPS offering is a match on output for:  Intel® Xeon® CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz [Family 6...

Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. Turn’s services are used by everyone from Google to Facebook. An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by...

Anyone here using WHMCS live chat feature? Wondering how the notifications with it / apps for it are - if it has continuous notification sound/other alerts. Other stuff looking at hasn't been real good about operator nagging / easy to just miss.

I have a VPS out there which over time has become a repetitive problem with hack / something getting into container / misuse thereafter.   Big picture unsure why.  Previously isolated post-event to PHP compromise.  Scrapped PHP and went different direction and months later, a second compromise...

Fun thread on LET right now with humans amassing to teach ChicagoVPS about spamming and this incessant emailing of CRAZY OFFERS --- even LET mods are in on it: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/40680/chicagovps-spammers If you ever made the mistake of buying from CVPS or they somehow opted you...

I have someone in my network of folks that is a Level 3 Linux Admin who is for hire currently. Remote worker, English speaker, good experience. If you are hiring and are receptive to remote workers, send me a PM and I'll put the two of you together.

Lots of gamers around vpsBoard. Archive.org the site best known perhaps for the Wayback Machine has released a collection of over 2000 games originally developed to run in DOS.  "... EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable. "...

Been a number of years since I last had a nice open source gateway device in place.    Used IPCOP prior and really liked it.  Was good for segmenting LAN, like throwing insecure stuff in a VLAN, wifi on another VLAN, etc. Going back to using something similar since time to segment experiments...