Will Your Internet Work Monday? Run This Test to See

Hundreds of thousands of computer users infected by the DNSChanger computer viruscould lose Internet access on Monday.

The Huffington Post reported in April that the problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers.

The FBI responded with a safety net using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions.

"But that safety net is going offline next Monday meaning that anyone who is still infected with the virus will lose access to the Internet unless they remove it from their machine," writes Hayley Tsukayama in the Washington Post.

To find out whether a computer is infected, U.S. users can run a simple online test at www.dns-ok.us.

The problem arises during the process of shutting down the computer. Once the shutdown is complete, computers infected by DNSChanger could lose access to the Internet on Monday.

According to CBS News, about 277,000 computers worldwide—64,000 of them in the United States—could still be infected.

After Monday, any computers still infected will not be able to access the Internet.

Read More Add Your Opinion

NMAP Installation and Usage Procedure

NMAP is an open source application and may be downloaded for free from insecure.org. Installation is straight forward. To install on Windows using the executable package:

1. Double click the installer file
2. Click the ‘I Agree’ button to accept the licensing term

Read More Add Your Opinion

NMap a free security scanner

• The security community has spoken! 3,000 of you shared favorite security tools for our relaunched SecTools.Org. It is sort of like Yelp for security tools. Are you familiar with all of the 49 new tools in this edition?
• Nmap 5.50 Released: Now with Gopher protocol support! Our first stable release in a year includes 177 NSE scripts, 2,982 OS fingerprints, and 7,319 version detection signatures. Release focuses were the Nmap Scripting Engine, performance, Zenmap GUI, and the Nping packet analysis tool. [Download page | Release notes]

Read More Add Your Opinion

Secure Shell (SSH)

Secure Shell (SSH) is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client (running SSH server and SSH client programs, respectively). The protocol specification distinguishes two major versions that are referred to as SSH-1 and SSH-2.

The best-known application of the protocol is for access to shell accounts on Unix-like operating systems. It was designed as a replacement for Telnet and other insecure remote shell protocols such as the Berkeley rsh and rexec protocols, which send information, notablypasswords, in plaintext, rendering them susceptible to interception and disclosure using packet analysis. The encryption used by SSH is intended to provide confidentiality and integrity of data over an unsecured network, such as the Internet.

Read More Add Your Opinion

Gammu

Gammu is the name of the project as well as name of command line utility, which you can use to control your phone. It is written in C and built on top of libGammu.

Gammu command line utility provides access to wide range of phone features, however support level differs from phone to phone and you might want to check Gammu Phone Database for user experiences with various phones. Generally following features are supported:

• Call listing, initiating and handling
• SMS retrieval, backup and sending
• MMS retrieval
• Phonebook listing, export and import (also from standard formats such as vCard)
• Calendar and tasks listing, export and import (also from standard formats such as vCalendar or iCalendar)
• Retrieval of phone and network information
• Access to phone file system (note that some phones work also as USB storage devices and those are not accessible through Gammu)

Read More Add Your Opinion

.tk free domain

.tk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau, a territory of New Zealandlocated in the South Pacific.

Tokelau allows any individual to register domain names. Users and small businesses may register up to 3 domain names free of charge (with some restrictions). In addition to the name itself, users can opt to forward their web traffic using HTML frames and their email traffic, with a maximum of 250 addresses per user log in, or use full DNS nameservice, either via their own or third-party servers, or by using Dot TK's servers. In order to ensure that names are being used, there is a minimum usage policy of 25 hits in 90 days, for both forwarded and DNS only domains, or 10 emails in 90 days for those domains that use only email forwarding. There are also content restrictions for free domains, banning sites containing sexual content, drug use,hate speech, firearms, and spam or copyright infringement. Also if a domain's redirect target doesn't work (even temporarily) the domain is taken offline. If a domain violates any of these terms, it is replaced by a SEDO add page, and no beforehand warning is given. Expired pages (except for those that received complaints of content violations) can be reclaimed by contacting their support system.

Read More Add Your Opinion