Garrett Kelley » Security http://garrettkelley.com Technology Aficionado Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:10:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Microsoft Security Essentials http://garrettkelley.com/archives/442 http://garrettkelley.com/archives/442#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:22:26 +0000 garrett http://garrettkelley.com/?p=442 If you haven’t already, check out Microsoft’s new anti-virus and anti-malware protection. It is free for genuine Windows users and available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 in both 32-bit and 64-bit varieties. Be sure to uninstall your current anti-virus solution first.  I have it installed on my notebook and I’ll be giving MSE a thorough test drive. If you’d like to learn more Ars Technica has a nice review of MSE here. Alternatively, if you’d like to jump right in you can get Security Essentials here.

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]]> http://garrettkelley.com/archives/442/feed 0 Revision3 hit with DoS attack. http://garrettkelley.com/archives/10 http://garrettkelley.com/archives/10#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 17:36:38 +0000 garrett http://garrettkelley.com/?p=18 The short version: Revision3 uses BitTorrent to distribute their media. Media Defender, who’s mission is to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer networks, were using a back door into Revision3′s BitTorrent server to inject torrents into their tracking server. Revision3 noticed the unauthorized torrents and took measures to de-authorize those torrents. This is where things become a bit sticky. Apparently because Media Defender’s servers were no longer receiving replies from Revision3′s tracking server, “traffic piled up”, according to Media Defender. The effect of this: Revision3 was hit with 8,000 packets per second sourced from Media Defender. Was it: intentional, malicious, down-right-dirty? I think so. The FBI is investigating and it is my hope that the FBI and Revision3 will take the appropriate steps to ensure Media Defender ceases their operations.

Full story at Revision3

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