Archive for August, 2008

System Host File locations

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

The hosts file is a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a computer network. This file maps hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is used as a supplement to (or instead of) the domain name system on networks of varying sizes. Unlike DNS, the hosts file is [...]

Linux Server Hacked

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Linux Mint Server Hacked last August 15th, the server of the Linux Mint distribution was hacked and code was injected to install a trojan called JS/Tenia.d If you visited linuxmint.com between August 13-15 they recommend you to scan your computer to make sure this trojan isn’t present. As this attack exploited vulnerabilities within linuxmint’s PHP [...]