I read with interest the post by Security Monkey today about swatting flies, not because I don’t agree with him about his point, but his example really brought to mind another of my pet peeves about working in IT generally, but Help Desk specifically. Let’s start with his example: Your help desk reports to you…
When I first read about G.ho.st the other day, the system admin part of me wondered if an on-line virtual computer could be the end of blocking IM, web-mail and social networking, because anyone with a little smarts could figure out to go to the VM, login, and use that to “browse” to all the…
When I got caught by a train on the way to work, and the gate on my side of the road didn’t go back up after the train went by, I should have known it was not going to be a good day. Sure enough, my boss was out sick, leaving a bunch of extra…
While I didn’t make any new year’s resolutions, I did have one particular goal for 2007, and that was increasing my network of friends/peers/readers, etc. In effect, I’m going to be spending 2007 trying to market myself better by reaching out to readers on both sites, fellow photography buffs, other technology professionals, or even just…
As a quick update to the post about Internet bottlenecks. Our networking folks spent a couple of weeks doing random traffic captures, both inside the firewall and having the ISP do it outside the firewall. Nothing really significant was found, no malware tying up bandwidth, no one streaming video all day long, nothing at all…
You have a medium-sized network, say 350 machines spread over 3 locations. You’ve suddenly, in the last week or so, noticed that your Internet connection has gotten a whole lot slower! Where would you start to look for what’s causing the bottleneck? In the last week we’ve found one machine with a trojan, gotten it…