Work is busy, and work sometimes sucks. Today was a mixed day...
Things started briskly and turned into harrowing. Around 8:30am a worm-laden email passed by my Outlook, addressed to the entire company. I immediately went into mitigation and investigative mode and in a few hours had narrowed the incident down to one machine, and a vector as to how it got in there in the first place.
The fun came when attempting to diagnose the worm. After some playing, I was eventually able to identify the mutex as being characteristic of a Bagel variant. Weirdly enough, though, my report had to conclude that this was a new, undiscovered variant due to some differences. Not an hour after I made my report to my team/manager, that I read an update on McAfee (the first one to publish it) about a new Bagel.AI version...the one I had found.
It is nice to know that it didn't do something else that I had missed, and was a largely benign worm. The worst thing about a worm outbreak is that if it does an unknown amount of damage, you pretty much have no choice but to format, just to keep the company safe.
Anyway, I purchased another round of books today and yesterday, revolving around my desire to learn database-driven web design, namely in ColdFusion, SQL Server 2000 and MySQL. I can think of many projects I could apply such skills to in my networking/administration area alone...for instance, I badly need a hardware/software inventory system that is more robust than my current Excel spreadsheets. This would be the perfect initial project I think.
If anyone knows if any resources with applying ColdFusion with MySQL, let me know. I'd love to see if there is any more magic to it than just assigning the ODBC in the CF admin...
Things started briskly and turned into harrowing. Around 8:30am a worm-laden email passed by my Outlook, addressed to the entire company. I immediately went into mitigation and investigative mode and in a few hours had narrowed the incident down to one machine, and a vector as to how it got in there in the first place.
The fun came when attempting to diagnose the worm. After some playing, I was eventually able to identify the mutex as being characteristic of a Bagel variant. Weirdly enough, though, my report had to conclude that this was a new, undiscovered variant due to some differences. Not an hour after I made my report to my team/manager, that I read an update on McAfee (the first one to publish it) about a new Bagel.AI version...the one I had found.
It is nice to know that it didn't do something else that I had missed, and was a largely benign worm. The worst thing about a worm outbreak is that if it does an unknown amount of damage, you pretty much have no choice but to format, just to keep the company safe.
Anyway, I purchased another round of books today and yesterday, revolving around my desire to learn database-driven web design, namely in ColdFusion, SQL Server 2000 and MySQL. I can think of many projects I could apply such skills to in my networking/administration area alone...for instance, I badly need a hardware/software inventory system that is more robust than my current Excel spreadsheets. This would be the perfect initial project I think.
If anyone knows if any resources with applying ColdFusion with MySQL, let me know. I'd love to see if there is any more magic to it than just assigning the ODBC in the CF admin...
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rebeldaisy:
splashing is ok, as long as you don't splash in my eyes.
psychicgoldfish:
Yep. 2 roommates. A male chem engineering major, and a female zoology major. Male is attractive to me, but he has a gf and i think she is peachy. The girl just broke up with her bf. I work with both of them.