Support information and alerts for NVDi customers and friends
Apr 09 2009
The now-infamous Conficker botnet has been showing some signs of activity over the last couple of days. It appears that it is trying to update itself to a different command and control technique, possibly in response to all the unwelcome attention it has been receiving from security researchers over the past few months. Some of [...]
Apr 09 2009
An overwrought piece by the Wall Street Journal about spies penetrating the U.S. electricity grid generated a great deal of coverage in the press over the last day or so. Given the noise level, I expected a multi-page, tell-all analysis. Instead, when I actually read the story, it turned out to be a fairly brief [...]
Apr 05 2009
“WhertRA,” the companion web log to “NVDi News & Alerts,” is now available. Rather than the shorter, time-sensitive items covered here, WhertRA will concentrate on general material about day-to-day computing tasks. Mostly, these articles will be written in response to customer questions and problems. Why the funny name? Well, it all started with a dumb [...]
Apr 04 2009
I know, I know. Yet another Conficker post. Don’t roll your eyes at me, this is pretty slick. The Conficker Working Group has posted the “Conficker Eye Chart.” They’ve created a clever diagnostic by taking advantage of the fact that Conficker blocks access to many security-related web sites. If you can’t “see” certain parts of [...]
Mar 23 2009
NVDi Support News & Alerts is officially on the air. We’re still arranging furniture and unpacking boxes, but the site is functional. See the “About” page for more details, as well as ways to monitor this blog.