Outsourced Clue Blog

So I bought a Logitech MX 1000 mouse.  To my horror, middle-clicking on a link in Firefox no longer opens the link in a new tab.  When I asked Logitech support about this, they said they only support the browsers in this page.
So, basically they don’t support the Mac.  Of those browsers, only IE is [...]

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What non-brain dead individual would sucumb to this blackmail?  I recommend all Bell South customers look for alternate broadband access.
Good for google, they aren’t biting.
[tags]Google, Broadband, Blackmail[/tags]

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The founder of the site is now blogging about the issue.
[tags]DDOS,Denial of Service Attack[/tags]

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Interesting. Generally there isn’t much coverage about a DDoS/Blackmail attempt while it’s going on (most target companies don’t reveal to the public they are under attack. I guess when you make a million dollars, others are always going to try and take a piece of it.
Million Dollar Homepage under DDoS Attack.
[tags]DDOS, Denial of [...]

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It always amazes me how many open recursive DNS servers there are in the world. An open recursive server is a DNS server that does recursive queries for ANYONE that queries them. Why is this bad? Well, for one they open you up to DNS reflector attacks (more on those in another [...]

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Generally, you would think a RAID monitoring solution would be a good thing. Well, sometimes good things can go VERY bad.
I was working on trouble shooting a performance problem with high traffic Oracle server. Every 8-10 seconds, I/O wait on the machine would spike to about 90-95%, causing all the Oracle processes to [...]

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I saw a post on The Planet’s forums about the user getting shut down because he was a target and participant of a DDOS attack. He couldn’t understand how that could be the case. There are two big possibilities as I see it:
1) You are in the middle of a game of cracker [...]

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