Archive for April, 2008

Domain-name based ssh login attempts

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The last few weeks I have noticed some illicit ssh login attempts that uses parts of the reverse DNS domain name as user name when it tries to login. The last attempt looked like this in my LogWatch summary: Illegal users from these:     195.38.107.55 (aquila.euroexpert.tvnet.hu): 9 times        root/password: 4 times        ...

Only two days left until Hardy Heron is released!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008



The WLAN router as a development platform?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I have a Fonera WLAN router (unfortunately it has been offline for a while now, but nevertheless) and I really like their thing. In their blog I read that their next generation WLAN router will be an open platform for developers. Interested developers will be able to join Fonosfera: The ...

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky joint venture

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Programming bloggers Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) and Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) plans to use the stackoverflow.com domain to provide a competitor to experts-exhange. It sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately their podcast had weird noises when I played it (in XMMS on Sun Solaris 10 — don't ask), so ...

WordPress crack attempt this morning!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

When I got to work and viewed this blog I noticed that Sidebar Widgets was disabled. I thought "That's weird!" When I tried to login to the administration interface I was told that my WordPress database needed upgrading. I thought "That's weird!" Some further investigation revealed that someone managed to upload a ...

The Scandinavian SCM day on May 28th, 2008

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

From the Scandinavian SCM day web page: The Scandinavian SCM day is an opportunity for people from academia and industry with a passion for Software Configuration Management to get together once a year to discuss SCM, exchange ideas and share problems. The reason I tag this post with "Agile" and "Scrum" is ...