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Top Articles
City System Admin Locks Out Everyone
[2008-07-17] Terry Childs is cooling his jets in jail, while the city of San Francisco tries to get back control of its FiberWan network, this is why no one single person should ever have total access to anything.
Sys-Admin Services Lacking Social Software
[2008-06-25] Social Software technologies can improve collaboration and networking within and beyond the enterprise, but a general dearth of system and administrative services brings greater long-term risks as customers look to extend from workgroup installations to enterprise-wide deployments, according to research released today by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.
FXCop Checks the Coding Practices of Your Dot Net Assemblies
[2008-05-29] FXCop is one of the very few free tools you can use to check on the coding practices of a dot net assembly.
Understanding How Bitlocker Works
[2008-05-08] In an ongoing debate on if Bitlocker is truly secure, and if not what are the best ways to hack into the system, you need to understand how bitlocker works and what platforms it is used on.
Problems with Server Header Status Codes
[2008-04-16] Members at Webmaster World discusses about the problem of server header status codes. It is one of those topics that aren't touched often!
Windows Vista SP1 Warrants Caution
[2008-03-21] If you're thinking about upgrading to Windows Vista SP1, you may want to think again. Although it was supposed to address users' and administrators' complaints about Vista, SP1 is itself creating enough problems to cause the University of Pennsylvania to back away.
IP Address as Personal Information
[2008-01-23] In some very interesting news coming out of the European Union, the IP Address that you use should be regarded as "personal information" meaning it now has the potential to fall under the safeguards and provisions of the very stringent privacy directives that the EU has.
Router Down: Some Days You Just Can't Win
[2008-01-02] Some days you just can't win. One of my clients (you know who you are) had such a day yesterday.
We Need a More Flexible Sense of Ethics in Information Security
[2007-11-08] One of my greatest mentors in information security is the CISO of a major educational institution; he has served the information security community well, with honor and with distinction over his many years in information security.
Talking with Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer Simo Sorce
[2007-10-25] Simo Sorce is the Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer, hired by Red Hat in 2007 where he is a Senior Software Engineer, maintainer of Samba and expert on Windows Integration and Identity Management.
SharePoint: Back Door Storage Play
[2007-10-19] We've been a SharePoint user, of sorts anyway, since the original beta. I didn't think much of it, to be honest, as eventually it became a giant pain in the rump just like every other tree oriented file system - once you put a zillion things in it, and you can't find anything.
Lazy DNS
[2007-10-04] I had a call this morning from a customer who wanted me to come down because their mail server was broken.
Apache Geronimo Should be Included in BEA's Future
[2007-09-19] I just read that Carl Icahn owns a 8.5% stake, worth $426.5M, in BEA. He wants to see BEA sold in order to maximize shareholder value.
Will Solaris Go After Low Hanging Fruit?
[2007-09-06] There's more noise about Solaris competing with Linux over at slashdot.
Server & Data Center Energy Efficiency
[2007-08-09] Slashdot reported that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivered a study on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency.
Do you Trust Your Vendor?
[2007-07-19] One of the things that I get to do in my new job with VMC is find out what people's pain points are and as I was doing research yesterday on vendors, what has been traditionally outsourced, and who has written authoritatively on it some interesting trends show up in the list.
Do You Really Need a Domain Controller?
[2007-07-10] Let's start out with the good points: there are advantages to a Microsoft Domain Controller model. Centralized user control, fine grained resource access control: these are often useful and very helpful.
Ops Mgr 2007: Certificate-based Authorization Across Internet
[2007-06-27] Certificate-based authorization scenarios in Operations Manager 2007 are something we've tested and documented, but there is one question that's been raised a few times we have yet to address:
The 802.1X Supplicant Initiative
[2007-05-17] First let me state that those are words I barely understand, and until recently have never even used the word "supplicant", correctly or otherwise.
We Don't Need an Information Security Industry
[2007-04-30] As much as I respect Bruce Schneier, and usually follow what he says with few if any questions, I think what he is missing with his speech in London is the Human Element.
Fortinet Firewall Transparent Mode
[2007-04-19] The Fortinet 50A is a firewall router designed for 10 users or less (this is an older model, now replaced by the 50B).
Security Pen Testing - Google Hacking
[2007-04-12] If you are a security pen tester, you should know about the Google Hacking Database over at Johnny I Hack Stuff.
Information Security Leaders
[2007-04-05] This was written soon after having listened to both the CISO of Cisco, and one of the primary think tank leaders from Gartner Group in December of 2005.
The Passive Interface Command And OSPF
[2007-03-23] To pass the BSCI exam and become a CCNP, you have to be aware of the proper use of passive interfaces.
IGRP And Equal Cost Load Balancing
[2007-03-05] To pass the CCNA exam, you've got to know the role of the bandwidth command with IGRP and EIGRP and when to use it.
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