Found this link over at Scoble’s today: Blogs: Another Tool in the Security Pro’s Toolkit This article gets into one of the first things I noticed about blogs, the potential to process more useful information. By that I mean when I first started this blog way back in Oct. 2001, one of the first things…
Saw this over at PocketPC Thoughts this morning. An article about the Air Marshals use of PDA’s: “The Transportation Security Administration spent $6.9 million to outfit the federal air marshal corps with voice-capable wireless handheld computers for in-flight use and then subsequently banned any voice usage because of potential interference with cockpit functions, according to…
Bits of news to bookmark for myself: Messenger Plus bundling spyware in it’s install. Microsoft introducing security certifications. -Like there aren’t enough certs to choose from? 🙂 MS looking to simplify patch management. Dell drops prices on Axims -The Axim is a really good PocketPC for the price and the price keeps getting better. Looks…
As someone who still works with NT 4.0 servers in my professional life, I wasn’t thrilled when MS didn’t come up with a patch for an RPC vulnerability. On the other hand, I already have our NT 4.0 server behind a firewall with port 135 blocked, so it’s really not that big a deal. I…
Finally a little extra time to catch up on blog/tech news reading. Just saw over at Doc’s that Mike Sanders has returned to blogging. Sounds like his next blogging phase will be an interesting thing to keep up with. Chad has an interesting story about cleaning up after the so-called expert consultants. I think everyone…
Some more random thoughts on workplace monitoring: – Your relationship with your employees shouldn’t be antagonistic. They aren’t “out to get you”. They should have a vested interest in helping the company succeed, after all the company pays their salary too. At the same time understand that what is bad for the company is bad…