ISP : Another name of client harassments

Its been a long time since I wrote my last blog. Actually , my tremendous pressure of study and other affairs (!!) didn’t give me much room to write some craps here.

Well , for last few days , I am in serious trouble with my ISP. Those who knows me , has experienced the pain of chatting with me in MSN or anywhere else ( IRC ) , knows much better than me about my connection.

What’s the main problem with my line ? Well , it’s the same problem which are you facing more or less with your isp , if you are living in Bangladesh and using some $hit named Broadband. Actually, all ISPs start their business with a decent bandwidth, early customers think that their ISP is awesome and they are gonna rock forever. But situation seems to turn around when ISP becomes more familiar in the territory. A great number of people starts to take connection from them and all on a sudden those bunch of “intelligent” people got that , they are earning great money. Those idiots doesn’t seem to realize that , they need increasing b/w for their increasing amount of clients. They are trying to reach 200 clients with the b/w they bought for 20 clients. Besides, most of the isp setup are actually done by some free lancer network engineer or someone who is not 24 hrs dedicated to that ISP business. So you cant expect anything named service from them. Right now , my ISP hasn’t any network specialist with them. So a quack “network engineer (as he claims himself)” is trying to set things up. He’s facing the hurdles of running Linux server without proper knowledge. So , one very nice evening he requested me to set his linux gateway server up. And I deny that proposal at once obviously with great decency.

Actually the core reasons behind all these problems are same. It’s lack of regulation in this business from GOVT. Its true that , we have a very costly b/w infrastructure because of foolish acts did by previous Govt. regarding submarine cable. But beside that , ISP s are doing there business according to their own wish. They are selling the same amount of b/w for the same price where as b/w cost is reduced ( though not abruptly as it should ). So all the ISP authorities are just looking their own benefit. They are taking the reduction in b/w price as their scope for earning much profit. and we , the end users are totally messed up.

People in Bangladesh think that Internet means only VoIP. No one seems to bother about the low b/w at end users for which we cant browse properly, can’t download anything bigger and specially can’t upload anything.

Sorry to say , sometimes I feel cursed while surfing internet as a Bangldeshi citizen. I know it would be too much ridiculous to expect that C G will give a look to this sector , and we will get a fair enough connection in next 6 months.

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New Worm Exploits Latest Windows Vulnerability

By Aelphaeis Mangarae

SecureZone Admin

efnet user 

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A new worm, or should I say worms as variants have been released, exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows just like the msblast.a worm.
This worm has been dubbed Cuebot by Anti-Virus vendors.

After infection the worm will turn off security controls in the Windows firewall and open a
backdoor that will allow a remote attacker to have control over the machine.
Last week Microsoft released a patch for the Windows server flaw (MS06-040) exploited by Cuebot.
The Department of Home Land Security in the US last week released a warning of the
potential danger of the vulnerability.

It would seem that this worm, is actually just an IRC bot that spreads through exploit this
new vulnerability. Although it has been dubbed a worm by some virus Anti-Virus firms.

A link on information relating to the vulnerability can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/…n/MS06-040.mspx

An analysis of the worm dubbed WORM_IRCBOT.JL by Trend Micro can be found here:

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyc…=WORM_IRCBOT.JL

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Dinky Pluto loses its status as planet

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Pluto, beloved by some as a cosmic underdog but scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.

The International Astronomical Union, dramatically reversing course just a week after floating the idea of reaffirming Pluto’s planethood and adding three new planets to Earth’s neighborhood, downgraded the ninth rock from the sun in historic new galactic guidelines.

The shift will have the world’s teachers scrambling to alter lesson plans just as schools open for the fall term.

“It will all take some explanation, but it is really just a reclassification and I can’t see that it will cause any problems,” said Neil Crumpton, who teaches science at a high school north of London. “Science is an evolving subject and always will be.”

Powerful new telescopes, experts said, are changing the way they size up the mysteries of the solar system and beyond. But the scientists at the conference showed a soft side, waving plush toys of the Walt Disney character Pluto the dog — and insisting that Pluto’s spirit will live on in the exciting discoveries yet to come.

“The word ‘planet’ and the idea of planets can be emotional because they’re something we learn as children,” said Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who helped hammer out the new definition.

“This is really all about science, which is all about getting new facts,” he said. “Science has marched on. … Many more Plutos wait to be discovered.”

Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn’t meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must “clear the neighborhood around its orbit.” That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune’s, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.

Astronomers have labored without a universal definition of a planet since well before the time of Copernicus, who proved that the Earth revolves around the sun, and the experts gathered in Prague burst into applause when the guidelines were passed.

Predictably, Pluto’s demotion provoked plenty of wistful nostalgia.

“It’s disappointing in a way, and confusing,” said Patricia Tombaugh, the 93-year-old widow of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh.

“I don’t know just how you handle it. It kind of sounds like I just lost my job,” she said from Las Cruces, N.M. “But I understand science is not something that just sits there. It goes on. Clyde finally said before he died, ‘It’s there. Whatever it is. It is there.'”

The decision by the IAU, the official arbiter of heavenly objects, restricts membership in the elite cosmic club to the eight classical planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Pluto and objects like it will be known as “dwarf planets,” which raised some thorny questions about semantics: If a raincoat is still a coat, and a cell phone is still a phone, why isn’t a dwarf planet still a planet?

NASA said Pluto’s downgrade would not affect its $700 million New Horizons spacecraft mission, which this year began a 9 1/2-year journey to the oddball object to unearth more of its secrets.

But mission head Alan Stern said he was “embarrassed” by Pluto’s undoing and predicted that Thursday’s vote would not end the debate. Although 2,500 astronomers from 75 nations attended the conference, only about 300 showed up to vote.

“It’s a sloppy definition. It’s bad science,” he said. “It ain’t over.”

Under the new rules, two of the three objects that came tantalizingly close to planethood will join Pluto as dwarfs: the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before it got demoted, and 2003 UB313, an icy object slightly larger than Pluto whose discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology, has nicknamed “Xena.” The third object, Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, isn’t in line for any special designation.

Brown, whose Xena find rekindled calls for Pluto’s demise because it showed it isn’t nearly as unique as it once seemed, waxed philosophical.

“Eight is enough,” he said, jokingly adding: “I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.”

Demoting the icy orb named for the Roman god of the underworld isn’t personal — it’s just business — said Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of the PBS show “Star Gazer.”

“It’s like an amicable divorce,” he said. “The legal status has changed but the person really hasn’t. It’s just single again.”

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AP Science Writers Alicia Chang in Los Angeles and Seth Borenstein in Washington, and correspondents Sue Leeman in London and Mike Schneider in Cape Canaveral, Fla., contributed to this story.

Source : Yahoo! Online News

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Securing your Windows PC

Firstly install Win XP with the latest Service pack. Run Windows update (START, ALL PROGRAMS, WINDOWS UPDATE) and update Windows and all your device drivers. Go download all the latest versions of applications you use like FTP server or proxy or so, old versions of programs is insecure and you could be hacked that way..

Disable the “guest” account on your PC and rename your “administrator” account. Right click My Computer and choose Manage.

Stop any services you don’t use, but be careful not to stop something that u use ( RIGHT CLICK MY COMPUTER, CHOOSE MANAGE, SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS, SERVICES). Stop the MESSENGER and REMOTE REGISTERY services.

Delete the admin shares, share it as something else and then stop sharing it. Then when u reboot it will not share it automatically again. With these admin shares domain admin’s and hackers can access your PC. Make sure to put a complex password on all your accounts.

Make your hard drive NTFS, or just put a password on your BIOS and make sure you change the boot order to boot first with the hard drive, so someone cannot boot up with a CD, delete your SAM file, or crack its password and gain administrator access to your PC..

Make sure the built in firewall is enabled. Check in control panel for Windows firewall. This firewall may be the cause that some of your hacking applications and tools will stop working, so if you have a problem with an application make sure to add this program to your windows firewall exceptions.

Install some kind of anti virus program, Norton Anti Virus works good, but remember that alot of hacking tools are picked up by Anti Virus, so disable your Anti Virus before running those tools.

Also install a Spyware removal tools like Spyware Doctor

source : Hackers Guide for better Protection

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BTTB Pain !!

By the time I am writing [ July 26 , 7:08 BDT], me and other users like me using bttb service [directly or indirectly , actually I want to mean using submarince cable facility],have just passed through a hell.

i cant clearly state from when it starts , but yesterday at night 10 pm , when I opened My pc, I have found that there was no active net connection.Then at around 11 pm , I we have got the line for 20-30 minz. Then it went again. And I have got the line next day @ approximately 12 pm.

I Guess ISPs having Vsat backup hadnt suffered this. Now just imagine what the hell is this ?

Countrys leading provider and only authorized provider has lost it link for such a long time ! Is this desirable?

actually Govt. Just wanted so show that they bring the submarine cable and blah blah… but they failed manage enough alternatives. They dont have enough backups.

so , bttb ppl , go hell with your submarine ….. try to back when you have stability….till that Vsat is OK.

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