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co.za and whois.co.za updates on server recovery

They’ve been working hard! Well done!! 🙂 Function Status Comments CAPTCHA whois Not affected http://captcha.coza.net.za Port 43 whois Not affected whois://whois.coza.net.za Primary Database Not affected Name Servers Not affected CO.ZA zone integrity unaffected Incoming and Outgoing email Not affected Applications queuing on incoming mail server RT Ticket system Not affected Network Partiall ...

iPad vs the HP Slate

With the iPad having sold its first 300 000 units, some of which, according to Core, are being imported as grey products into South Africa as we speak, the HP Slate priced at around $550 makes its cautious appearance. With a 1.6GHz processor, a USB port, built-in webcam, optional 3G, 5hrs runtime, and graphics playback at 1080p, it looks like quite a good contender for the — uhm – iPa ...

Update on .co.za and whois.co.za outages

There’s an update on www.coza.net.za on the system outages they’ve experienced: CO.ZA Service Outage Status 07 Apr 2010 Original announcement here Current Status of co.za services. Function Status Comments CAPTCHA whois Not affected http://captcha.coza.net.za Port 43 whois Not affected whois://whois.coza.net.za Primary Database Not affected Name Servers Not affected CO.ZA zone integri ...

.co.za and whois.co.za offline

[South Africa – Apr 8. 2010] Both www.co.za (South African co.za Domain Registry) and whois.co.za (The .co.za Domain homepage and the co.za Whois Server (Registration Details)) are offline (at least on port 80, for normal web traffic) — here’s hoping it’s just a reboot / upgrade! Aaaaaaaaaanyway… whois.co.za.   86400   IN      CNAME   co.za. co.za.         86400   IN ...

synch.cc has just launched systemsaudit.co.za

It’s up – the full network and business system audit and asset tracking service by synch.cc, tracking hardware, software and assets using a background scheduler – more at systemsaudit.co.za! A systems auditing service with clean reporting and charts like this has never been easier! Had to just add a plug for it here, too 🙂 And the picture of the puppy was just too cool to resist ...

Clamav errors on upgrade to 0.96 clamd and clamav-milter

Some updates to the yum-sent clamav-milter.conf and (to a lesser extent) clamd.conf may be necessary. After an automatic yum-update of the clamd family on RHEL, there’s a disparity in the way clamav-milter listens and clamd services the socket or port connection — clamav-milter doesn’t know what to go with (local socket on unix:/tmp/clamav.socket or tcp:127.0.0.1) – so you ...

Step-by-step virus disassembly

Over at SkullSecurity they’ve done a great job of a step-by-step disassembly of the Energizer Trojan using IDA. Using a sterile/insight environment, they go through the code to give you an insight into the workings of “obfuscation” (or lack thereof), backdoor management (on port 7777) and more. Good beginner’s intro with pretty pictures 🙂 ...

OpenSSL v1 released after 11 years of development

After a long, hard struggle of 11 years, which started with these two entries: 23-Dec-1998: Released OpenSSL 0.9.1c 23-Dec-1998: Official start of the OpenSSL project we are now at the point of “a major release” with v1.0.0 being made available. Fighting tooth and nail not to be a 1.0.0, we’ve seen iterations such as 0.9.8d to 0.9.8n (taking a page out of Google’s book of ...