Smithsonian Channel: System Crash

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January 28, 2010
by Michael McNamara in

The Smithsonian Channel has put together a very insightful show entitled System Crash chronicling the dangers of our growing digital world.

Unbelievable…and unstable. Unlimited…and unreliable. See how our growing dependence on modern technology, now running everything from transportation to energy to finance to communications, has made life a whole lot easier…and infinitely, sometimes tragically, more complicated.

Take a disturbing trip to the dark side of the Internet, where cyber crooks pose a constant threat to our finances, privacy, even our national security. Discover how hackers can attack major corporations and bring entire countries to a standstill, and what, if anything, we can do to stop them.

It’s intend audience is the every day casual Internet user, not the security or network engineer. I thought it did a very good job of articulating the dangers that are growing and the peril that many Internet users are completely unaware of today.

Here’s a brief excerpt from the show;

Cheers!

Nortel IP Phone 1200 Series

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January 26, 2010
by Michael McNamara in , ,

Nortel 1220 IP PhoneWe recently purchased two Avaya/Nortel 1220 IP phones for testing in our environment as a possible replacement to the manufacture discontinued i2002/i2004 IP phones. We’re evaluating whether we should purchase the 1120e/1140e or the 1220/1230 as our standard IP phone going forward. An obvious concern going forward is that the phone support the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) so that it will be potentially capable of inter-operating with whatever soft switch or PBX we might have in the backend, be it the Avaya Aura or the legacy Avaya/Nortel Call Server 1000.

I should warn folks that the phone is sold with different SKUs depending if you want it running the UNIStim or SIP protocol. Upgrading the phone between the UNIStim and SIP firmwares is not supported by Avaya/Nortel. With that said I was successful in upgrading/converting a UNIStim SKU’d phone with the SIP firmware available from Avaya/Nortel’s Software Communication System (SCS). I did have some issues downgrading/converting the same set back to UNIStim, although I eventually found the workaround that was needed to trick the SIP firmware into believing I had newer firmware. I can share that with anyone that is interested or if anyone is stuck in a similar position.

The default configuration password is:

26567*738

Cheers!

Update: Monday February 22, 2010

It might be easier to remember the password as follows:

COLOR*SET

Kaspersky Antivirus – Google Adsense – Trojan

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January 25, 2010
by Michael McNamara in

It was like deja vu, only a few months ago I wrote about an issue with Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and Google Adsense. So you can imagine my surprise this morning when our Blue Coat ProxyAV appliances started sending out hundreds of alarms that URLs associated with Google Adsense were infected with a Trojan. After looking at the Javascript it was pretty clear that this was a false positive result.

2010-01-25 12:04:25-05:00EST
Hardware serial number: 3806111111
ProxyAV (Version 3.2.4.1(43261)) – http://www.BlueCoat.com/ Antivirus
Vendor: Kaspersky Labs Scan Engine Version: 8.0.1.23
Pattern File Version: 100125.095500.3363319 (Timestamp: 2010.01.25 09:55:00)

Machine name: ProxyAV-gosford
Machine IP address: 10.1.1.45
Server: 64.233.169.165
Client: 10.1.1.100

Protocol: ICAP
Virus/PUS: “Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar” found!
URL: http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js

There was quite a thread over on the support forums at Kaspersky on the subject.

Cheers!

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