I’ve been messing around a bit with the Hawking PN9245F router that I’ve got the home network and cable modem running through. I put it through some firewall tests and port scans, and it’s got me running in full stealth mode for the moment. Gotta’ love that! It wasn’t even all that difficult to setup…
BadTrans is out there and looking quite active, at least based on the number of infected emails I’ve seen come bouncing into our network here at work. We did have one person get infected, two days after I posted a warning about it, and instructions on dealing with it, which is quite frustrating. Turns out…
Users are the weakest link, security experts warn | Computerworld News & Features Story This is pretty good stuff. This article really shows the things you need your senior management folks to know and buy into. It took me a long time to get folks here to buy into security, and since it’s still in…
Sort of a slow day today, which is ok, since I forgot to write about the seminar I was at yesterday! It was Are you Vulnerable? Wireless, Worms & CyberThreats put on by ISS . This turned out to actually be pretty good. I was expecting a big scare tactic followed by a sales pitch…
New DIMM arrived this morning, bright and early. 🙂 (Get it?? ok it was dumb, I know) Got it installed on the machine and tried restoring with the new restore CD. Still crashed! Went back to using the old CD, and it restored fine and dandy. So much for the guy who told me that…
File-swapping case may break new ground They may have a case, Napster did have a central server and was designed to share MP3’s, many of which they knew would be copyrighted. These guys are simply distributing software that can be used to share copyrighted materials, but can be used for many other things as well….