Matthew's Weblog

I’m going to have to try out dar sometime in the future.  The author gives good reasoning behind the think-first perspective of his article.  When I read the intro, I thought I was doomed for what I do.  Apparently I’m OK but not great… so one more area where I can improve…

Technorati Tags: linux, backup

In an interesting move that I’m surprised took this long, botnet masters are moving their zombie communications channels to HTTP instead of IRC.  The unfortunate part of this is that now I have to get even more rigorous on what URLs will be allowed through the firewall/proxies I maintain and it will probably impact people.  Blocking IRC was easier… oh well, the good old days never last.

Technorati Tags: botnet, security