Since we last spoke, Vaughn has seen very little action. The problem is not the week or so of down-time he’s experienced, but the fact that his virtual environment lives inside my computer. While the virtual PC itself is about as safe as a chainsaw-piñata, the internet connection to which it is bridged is protected [...]
There’s something uncomfortable about setting up a machine to be as insecure as possible, but that’s what I’ve been doing today. Not being the sort to have sacrificial computers lying around, I settled for a virtual machine. So after a quick and easy installation of the VMare Workstation trial, I got straight to setting up [...]
While universally troublesome and inherently evil, there’s something exciting, even sexy, about zombie networks. The idea that somewhere out there is a global army of dormant computers, their owners blissfully unaware, which could spring to life at the whim of a bedroom hacker and coordinate DDoS attacks to take down a country’s internet presence, distribute [...]