Fedora's Cobbler project to automate Linux deployments Oct 29, 2008
While most members of the open source community have begun to develop new features for the next version of , over the past two years some have worked to simplify everyday systems administration tasks such as installing and provisioning servers over a network ... It's a lightweight, extensible installation engine that abstracts the differences between installation methods and helps systems administrators be more productive instead of wasting time on details, he said ... Hyclak chose Cobbler... (Search Enterprise Linux)
10/16: FakeAV-ET Trojan Creates Files Upon Installation Oct 17, 2008
exe System\dllcache\beep. sys System\dllcache\figaro ... sys are detected as Mal/FakeAle-C.. (eSecurityPlanet)
10/14: FakeAle-IJ Trojan Creates Files, Registry Entries Oct 15, 2008
exe System\dllcache\beep. sys System\dllcache\figaro ... sys are detected as Mal/FakeAle-C. The file brastk. (eSecurityPlanet)
10/13: BackDoor-BAC.gen Trojan Drops, Execute Content Oct 14, 2008
WINDIR%\system32\gzipmod ... WINDIR%\system32\vbagz ... WINDIR%\system32\k86. (eSecurityPlanet)
Reflections on the Big Owe of '08 Oct 11, 2008
If you ask him what pleasures he remembers best, he cites "a day back in England, when I was a teenager. I drove a team of horses, turning a field of spring wheat, all day. I walked 14 miles behind those horses. I ate my lunch on the side of the field, the sun coming down. It was glorious, the happiest day of my life.") He hopes the crisis ends up purging the financial system of the dubious instruments, among other things, that produced the crisis in the first place. "In a way, if everything... (Globe and Mail -- Business)
EnableTS Sees Spammers Using Automated Systems To Their Advantage, Again Oct 6, 2008
Anti-spam providers who operate unintelligent automated reporting systems have been hit hard by the spammers that generate the 'falsepositive@' spam ... Today, EnableTS spoke out against Vendors who rely on quota based listing systems that work in favour of the spammers ... Anti-spam providers who operate unintelligent automated reporting systems have been hit hard by the spammers that generate the 'falsepositive@' spam. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Awarded $10.3 Million Prime Contract for Future Force, Wireless, Satcom Experimentation and Engineering Support Oct 6, 2008
Kratos will provide network systems engineering and experimentation support for the U.S. Army Signal Center's EXP DIV. Experimentation support will include both analytical and systems engineering support in the planning, setup, design, accreditation, execution, data collection and formal written analysis of a variety of communications experiments ... Principle services include C5ISR, weapon systems lifecycle support, military weapon range and technical services, network engineering services,... (Primezone Releases)
NW Stock Report Oct 3, 2008
Local experts provide the latest information on Healthcare issues that matter to you. Fresh Ideas with Leigh Ann. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR -- Business)
Excel version Oct 3, 2008
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9/24: Sality-AM Virus Infects Executables in Root Folder Sep 25, 2008
E-Security Planet Webcasts. Search EarthWeb Network. (eSecurityPlanet)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Awarded $2.9 Million Integrated Logistics/Field Engineering Technical Support Task Order Sep 24, 2008
9 million, 12-month contract from the U.S. Army on behalf of the Short Range Land Combat (SHORLAC) Systems Division of the Integrated Material Management Center (IMMC), Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division. Kratos has the lead responsibility to provide continued technical and field engineering support in the operation of the Maintenance, Operations, Procedures, and Prototype (MOPP) Shop, Fire Support Team Vehicle (FISTVA) Turret, FIST Mission Equipment, Ground Vehicle Laser Locator... (Primezone Releases)
Anonymous donor helps city with playground equipment Sep 23, 2008
LITTLE TIKES COMMERCIAL PLAY SYS. INC.1 IRON MOUNTAIN DR., FARMINGTON, MO. 2002 TRI Pollution Releases Sorted by Health Effect. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Rocket Support Services Sector Awarded $3 Million Navy AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense Support Task Sep 22, 2008
This award is for the next series of ARAV targets that will support a ballistic target scenario for AEGIS BMD. ARAVs have been successfully used in Weapon System upgrade test events and have evolved into usage as targets for Aegis BMD. This is part of an ongoing requirement to provide ARAVs for Aegis BMD events ... Principle services include C5ISR, weapon systems lifecycle support, military weapon range and technical services, network engineering services, advanced IT services, security and... (Primezone Releases)
The Slump Hits the Gulf: No More Palm Islands? Sep 18, 2008
"No one's got cash in their account," sys Khan ... "Today, there are not as many projects in the system.". (Time.com)
Twenty more IT mistakes to avoid Sep 16, 2008
Mismanaging the datacenter Sys admins aren't exactly known for their neatness, but in the datacenter, order is essential ... Good systems housekeeping also means getting production servers off engineers' desks and out of their ... Treating "legacy" as a dirty word Eager young techies may hate the idea that mission-critical processes are still running on systems their grandparents' age, but there's often good reason for IT to value age over beauty. (InfoWorld)
For Lehman Staffers, A Long Walk Home Sep 16, 2008
A man leaning against the building's facade held aloft a printed sign on white letter-sized paper: LOOKING TO HIRE SYS ADMIN. Most employees passed through the scrum without acknowledging it. The few who did talk seemed unable to summon much emotion, saying they remained in the dark about the firm's future. (Time.com)
Rogue Sys Admin Still Haunts San Francisco Sep 13, 2008
Terry Childs, the system administrator who is in jail awaiting trial for, in effect, holding San Francisco's fiber-optic wide area network hostage back in July, continues to darken the lives of members of the city's IT department ... Why did a trusted systems administrator such as Childs suddenly turn rogue ... The fiber-optic WAN he was working with connects all of San Francisco's computers, and also handles some of the systems of the city's police department, and it would make sense to only... (eSecurityPlanet)
Mergent, Inc. Announces Quarterly Rebalancing of HealthShares(TM) Indexes Sep 13, 2008
(Logo: ) HealthShares(TM) Cancer Index (HHK) Drop CHUGAI PHARM CO (Tokyo SE: 4519) IMCLONE SYSTEMS (NASDAQ: ) Add COUGAR BIOTECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ: ) NEUROSEARCH A/S (OMX Nordic Exchange Copenhagen: NEUR) HealthShares(TM) Diagnostics Index (HHD) Drop HAEMONETICS CORP (NYSE: ) MDS INC (NYSE: ) MOOG INC (NYSE: A) MYRIAD GENETICS INC (NASDAQ: ) NUVASIVE INC (NASDAQ: ) VARIAN INC (NASDAQ: ) VARIAN MED SYS INC (NYSE: ) Add ANALOGIC CORP. (NASDAQ: ) CARL ZEISS MEDITEC (Frankfurt, Germany: AFX)... (PR Newswire)
Apple re-releases iTunes 8 to fix Vista 'blue screen of death' Sep 13, 2008
Users running Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system had reported problems almost as soon as the updated iTunes 8 was posted for download Tuesday ... The BSOD message fingered an Apple-provided USB driver -- "usbaapl.sys" in the 32-bit version of Vista, "usbaapl64.sys" in the 64-bit edition of the operating system -- as the culprit ... sys, and swapped in older editions from a July iTunes update. (Computerworld)
Fixing the iTunes 8/iPhone blue screen of death Sep 12, 2008
Several users have reported an issue in which connection of an iPhone or iPod touch to a Windows Vista system running iTunes 8 results in a blue screen of death (BSOD) ... sys from system32\drivers to the same location on your desktop ... sys on your machine first. (CNET News)
9/10: OnLineG-BC Trojan Copies Itself, Creates Files Sep 11, 2008
When first run Troj/OnLineG-BC copies itself to System\ckvo ... dll System\drivers\klif ... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run kamsoft System\ckvo. (eSecurityPlanet)
9/8: Agent-HPH Trojan Contacts Remote Server Sep 9, 2008
sys is detected as Troj/Rootkit-DK.. More information can be found at Sophos page. (eSecurityPlanet)
Doctor opposes new law on organ donors Sep 6, 2008
Saturday September 6 2008. One of Europe's leading authorities on organ transplants has warned that changing the law in Britain to "presumed consent" for donation would not save lives. (guardian.co.uk)
NorthWestern CEO: Sioux Falls good for business Sep 4, 2008
S o u t h Da k o t a Pu b l i c Utilities Commission chairman Gary Hanson said Rowe "will make an excellent CEO. I appreciate that he has reached out immediately to all of the commissioners and has met with us." Rowe said NorthWestern is expanding its natural gas dist r ibut ion sys t em, adding about 300 homes in the Tea area near Sioux Falls. (AP). (Havre Daily News, MT)
Q & A: Spore creator Will Wright Aug 31, 2008
It wasn't really the intent on the software, again the intent was to make a toy that people could play with and come to understand the way all of these sciences are really all part of the same sys 00004000 tem. There are certainly a lot of things on the algorithmic levels that will probably find uses in other places, especially the stuff we're doing with procedural content. (CBC.ca)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Announces New Strategic Contracts Valued At Approximately $2.2 Million Aug 28, 2008
The first contract supports the Marine Corps Systems Command's contracting environment called Commercial Enterprise Omnibus support services (CEOss). The Company will provide on-going analytical, programmatic, technical planning and logistics support to the Marine Corps Systems Command Common Computer Resources, Base Telecommunications Infrastructure program ... Both of these opportunities demonstrate the synergies we are experiencing as a result of the recent mergers with Haverstick Consulting... (Primezone Releases)
8/25: Agent-HMP Trojan Drops Files from Preconfigured URLs Aug 26, 2008
When first run,Troj/Agent-HMP creates: System32\oembios ... System32\sysproc64\sysproc32 ... sys System32\sysproc64\sysproc64. (eSecurityPlanet)
8/22: Small-EMA Trojan Runs Exported Code Aug 23, 2008
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run sys. (pathname of the Trojan executable). (eSecurityPlanet)
8/21: Mdrop-BUW Trojan Creates Randomly Named .Sys File Aug 22, 2008
Sys File August 21, 2008 ... sys file System\drivers\randomname ... sys is detected as Troj/Pushdo-Q.. (eSecurityPlanet)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Awarded Systems Architecture Development and Integration (SADIE) Support Services (WCF) Contract Valued At Approximately $8.9 Million Aug 21, 2008
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Awarded Systems Architecture Development and Integration (SADIE) Support Services (WCF) Contract Valued At Approximately $8 ... Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Awarded Systems Architecture Development and Integration (SADIE) Support Services (WCF) Contract Valued At Approximately $8 ... 9 MillionThursday August 21, 8:30 am ET Contract is a Continuation of Support Currently Being Provided to Department of the Navy, SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston. (Primezone Releases)
DEATH RATES: Highest, lowest Aug 20, 2008
CHRISTUS SCHUMPERT HEALTH SYSTEM ... MEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ... BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEM. (USA Today)
Taiwan hopes to force Microsoft into selling XP forever Aug 19, 2008
system 7 may be OK as MS is opening dialogue Oct. 08 to discuss new OS. it seems that they have learned that you cant impose your way on the consumer if the product causes more problems than the switch is worth ... a stripped and beefed up sys 7 may do the job. (CNET News)
Hub stuck shuttling juvenile suspects Aug 12, 2008
Meanwhile, the city's new dependence on the state for beds is another burden for a state system that faces its own budgetary problems ... "There's no question the whole sys tem is strained, and underfunded," said Mary Beth Heffernan, undersecretary for criminal justice in the Executive Office of Public Safety. (Boston Globe)
8/6: Drop-AL Trojan Copies Itself, Creates Registry Entries Aug 7, 2008
sys is registered as a new system driver service named "GSNXDrv", with a display name of "GSNXDrv Device Driver" ... HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GSNXDrv. (eSecurityPlanet)
7/25: FakeAle-DN Trojan Creates Files, Registry Entries Jul 26, 2008
exe System\dllcache\beep. sys System\dllcache\figaro ... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run braviax System\braviax. (eSecurityPlanet)
Existing Home Sales Drop Jul 25, 2008
REALTOR Magazine Online: The real estate professional's business support tool. YOUR INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE REALTOR.ORG/realtormag. (Realtor Magazine Online)
7/22: Zhelatin.ZI Worm Creates File, Adds Registry Key Jul 24, 2008
HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Services\glok+b89-6227 %WINDIR%\glok+b89-6227. sys. (eSecurityPlanet)
Cuomo strong-arms Comcast over Usenet images Jul 23, 2008
July 22, 2008 6:30 PM PDT. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has found a novel way to shake down law-abiding broadband companies: accuse them of harboring child pornography and threaten to prosecute them unless they do what he wants. (CNET News)
7/21: Inject.ACI Trojan Drops Files, Modifies Registry Jul 22, 2008
This white paper defines the framework to launch e-learning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or learning management system ... ACI is a Windows system Trojan that drops files in the Windows System folder. (eSecurityPlanet)
Man Hurt In Camper Explosion Jul 22, 2008
Ida County Sheriff's Office Sys Patrick Streiff Jr. Hurt. POSTED: 9:04 am CDT July 21, 2008UPDATED: 9:05 am CDT July 21, 2008. (7 KETV Omaha)
Maniacal' computer engineer Terry Childs Jul 18, 2008
A disgruntled computer engineer has been sitting in a prison cell for four days after locking out everyone but himself from a city computer system ... The city says that fixing the system, which hosts 60 per cent of the city government's data, and determining whether the alleged tampering led to a security breach could cost millions of dollars ... At a news conference announcing Mr Childs' arrest, Kamala Harris, the district attorney, said: "This involves compromising a public system that we... (Times Online)
FEARLESS FACTOR: A surprise title game tops CFB picks Jul 17, 2008
I predict that Florida's crack sports info staff will compile a new statistic -- to be named "SYs" (as in SEE Ya. or "PHMs" (as in, "Percy, Have Mercy!") to keep track of the number of defenders juked off their feet by Percy Harvin, who, I also predict, will suffer dehydration and require intravenous fluids after piling up 450 yards of total offense in the first half against The Citadel on November 22. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
WSJ: Tips for Switching from Windows to Mac Jul 4, 2008
As a result, he gets a lot of e-mail with questions about the differences between the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems ... One just has to enable that and other methods in the System Preferences ... For the most part, apps that are pretty much useless w/out an open window, yet boast relatively short launch times (Address Book, Sys Prefs, etc. (The Mac Observer)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Completes Merger With SYS Technologies Jun 30, 2008
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Completes Merger With SYS Technologies: Financial News - Yahoo ... Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Completes Merger With SYS TechnologiesMonday June 30, 8:30 am ET Kratos Expects to Realize Financial Leverage and Enhanced Competitive Opportunities as It Grows to Approximately 2,000 Employees, the Majority of Which Hold National Security Clearances ... SAN DIEGO, June 30, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NasdaqGS: - )... (Primezone Releases)
6/24: Mal/BVSysmm-A Worm Family Spreads Via Removable Media Jun 25, 2008
Mal/VBSysmm-A is a family of worms that spread using removable media. Mal/VBSysmm-A worms typically create the following registry entry ... HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Sys. (eSecurityPlanet)
6/24: Pushu-Gen Trojan Family Creates Files Jun 25, 2008
These include (but are not limited to): physical capacity relative to physical space requirements, performance capacity for data transfer and system reaction time, software maintenance and updates, expandability and flexibility, and much more ... sys \system32\drivers\netdtect ... sys \system32\drivers\secdrv. (eSecurityPlanet)
Keros Capital Report: HAVOC Secures Largest Purchase Order To Date Jun 19, 2008
9 million shares, Spongtech Delivery Sys (OCTBB: SPNG) down 2% on 4. 6 million shares. (Canada Newswire)
6/16: Xpaj Virus Infects Several FIle Extensions Jun 17, 2008
sys files on the compromised computer. More information can be found at Symantec page. (eSecurityPlanet)
Her argument for amputation Jun 16, 2008
Denis was only 3 years old when a rare virus, transverse myelitis, attacked her central nervous sys tem, leaving her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She adapted quickly: "By 5 I was doing handstands on my walker," she remembered. (Boston Globe)
TN: Police booths turn storage kiosks Jun 14, 2008
A rival to these kiosks is a tea shop that offers the same service with a token system ... "We started this service as there are people coming from neighbouring states for visa interviews. They cant avoid bringing their mobile phones. They plead with us to store it here. To avoid confusion we began the token sys 00004000 tem. We store at least 500 mobiles a day," he said. (India Times, India)
San Diego Executive Pay Jun 13, 2008
Dot Hill Systems (12). Dana W. Kammersgard. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Ndiswrapper Wireless Card Install Jun 10, 2008
The more popular Linux distributions, such as Redhat, Slackware, Debian and Ubuntu, come with many native drivers, but not every networking card will work out of the box on a system running Linux ... Although it is the same operating system, every distributon does not implement things in the same way ... Getting help for the Linux operating system is easy and cheap. (Suite101.com)
6/6: Delf-EZZ Trojan Contacts Remote Server Via Http Jun 7, 2008
When first run Troj/Delf-EZZ copies itself to (System)\qtplugin ... sys, which also is detected as Troj/Delf-EZZ System\hdport ... sys, which is detected as Troj/Delf-EZY. (eSecurityPlanet)
Cork pops on Dutrow tote board Jun 7, 2008
Associate Health Care Management Sys. Company seeks Foreman, Roofing Mecha. (Albany Times Union)
Wyo. festival to offer chances to dunk a Democrat Jun 7, 2008
Associate Health Care Management Sys. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. (Albany Times Union)
Oil's biggest day yet drags down stocks Jun 7, 2008
Associate Health Care Management Sys. Oppty. (Albany Times Union)
6/5: Cutwail Trojan Downloads, Runs Arbitrary Files Jun 6, 2008
It copies itself to the %WINDIR%\System32 directory and can drop a kernel rootkit. sys; file) to %WINDIR%\System32\drivers with different names ... dll; in the %WINDIR%\System32 directory. (eSecurityPlanet)
Higher tax burns up smokers Jun 4, 2008
Associate Health Care Management Sys. eering, a full service Archit. (Albany Times Union)
A family feud over property offers lessons for others Jun 2, 2008
Associate Health Care Management Sys. Tech Services seeks a customer servi. (Albany Times Union)
Putting chips on the table Jun 1, 2008
Associate Health Care Management Sys. Albany Area Experience in large offi. (Albany Times Union)
5/28: Autorun-EL Worm Copies Itself to Available Drives May 29, 2008
W32/Autorun-EL is a worm that when run, copies itself to (System)/sys. vbs and also copies itself to all available drives to the file (Root)/sys ... inf file that will autorun sys. (eSecurityPlanet)
BUSINESS BRIEFS May 22, 2008
JetBlue namesJetBlue Airways chose Joel Peterson as chair man to succeed founder David Neeleman, who left to create a new car rier in Brazil. Peterson has been vice chairman since June. (New York Post -- Business)
5/20: Baklajan Parasitic Virus Infects PE Executable Files May 21, 2008
It will then not infect other PE files like DLL, SYS or SCR files. W32/Baklajan searches local drives (from the letter D: onwards) for Windows PE executable files to infect. (eSecurityPlanet)
5/19: Agent-GYS Trojan Drops Files in Temp Folder May 20, 2008
It also overwrites (System)\Drivers\Beep ... HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop sysfile Infected filename ... exe "(System)\shell32.dll,"Control_RunDLL (infected file). (eSecurityPlanet)
5/15: Dloadr-BLS Trojan Downloads Malware to Various Files May 17, 2008
exe Windows\Sistema System\cservice System\removegb. sys. (eSecurityPlanet)
