Tom Olzak

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WordPress DDoS Attacks Mostly Came from China News

In Uncategorized on March 6, 2011 at 20:26

China, LEAVE MY BLOG ALONE…   From WordPress DDoS Attacks Mostly Came from China News:

“WordPress.com was hit with another wave of attacks today (the fourth in two days) that caused issues again,” he said. “This time we were able to recover more quickly, and also determined one of the targets to be a Chinese-language site which appears to be also blocked on Baidu [China’s largest search engine]. The vast majority of the attacks were coming from China (98%) with a little bit of Japan and Korea mixed in.”

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The Kinect Hack Compendium

In Hacking, Hardware, Microsoft on March 6, 2011 at 20:16

See The Kinect Hack Compendium! – Yahoo! News.  Maybe this is a reason for Microsoft to try some approach to open-source for these products.  The base technology seems capable of so much more…

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Android security…?

In Application Security, Certificates, Cybercrime, Data Security, Hacking, malware, Mobile Device Security, security, Security Management on March 6, 2011 at 20:09

A recent blog, Frequency X Blog, examines the latest Android malware, DroidDream.  The hole that allowed this is as big as they get.