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Terrapin Networks - Moving IT Forward Archives: July 2008

30 July 2008

FBI warns of new Storm worm variant

Be on the lookout for email with the subject line“F.B.I vs. Facebook“…
CNet has this story here; my post below is directly from CNet.
For the FBI link, go here.________________________________________________________

FBI warns of new Storm worm variantPosted by Robert Vamosi

On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new [...]

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25 July 2008

Dancing!

One of my favorite sites on the Internet is the Astronomy Picture of the Day site. This is another little gift NASA gives us. (Or, we give ourselves, I guess…tax dollars and all, of course.)
They had a terrific video the other day, about humans and dancing - this is a must see about this Matt [...]

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25 July 2008

Northern Lights Explained by NASA

Admit it - you always wondered what caused Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis. Now NASA has nailed it down - it mainly revolves around magnetic fields getting stretched and then snapping. That was always my theory, but now it is definite. (!)

Here is how NASA describes it:
The key to the auroras is magnetic reconnection, which NASA [...]

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21 July 2008

UPS email virus: Do not open the email from UPS about your "shipment"

Yes, this one is a virus. You get an email, it claims to be from UPS about a shipment, and there is an attachment. Do not open either the email or the attachment - it’s a virus, and it does do some damage.
When UPS does send you an email, it won’t have an attachment.
UPS has [...]

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15 July 2008

Be nice to your IT Administrator (with updates)

Here is a sorta scary story: an IT admin in San Francisco has locked the City out of its own network, and won’t reveal the passwords. Currently, he has set it up so there is limited access to the network.
Not sure the real issue here; in most any network the admin password can be broken, [...]

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