If you’ve been following the last few days of posts, I’ve been thinking about security from a more general level. I’ve been wondering how we can mitigate risks in a digital world where the following features are appearing in nearly every digital device.
Think about digital devices in your possession and see if you agree with [...]
Risk Mitigation
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Virus onslaught sickens smartphones
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
By the time you read this, there could very well be 200 mobile viruses in the wild waiting to latch onto your company’s devices and wreak some major havoc. As of yesterday, the number of mobile-specific viruses teetered at 199 — and that figure is low, according to some — but mobile virus expert and [...]
Deploy updates to Windows 2000 Server with Windows Server Update Services
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Ensuring that your Windows 2000 Server is up-to-date with patches is a critical step to ensuring reliability and availability. Automating and streamlining patch application not only helps relieve administrative overhead but helps ensure that patches are applied regularly.
Top 10 Windows XP Tips Of All Time
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Despite all the hoopla about the introduction of Windows Vista, the truth of the matter is that the new OS isn’t due for at least another seven to nine months — and it will probably be even longer before most of us start adopting it. Meanwhile, we’ve still got to deal with Win XP.
In order [...]
Spam King Alan Ralsky rumored to be in jail
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
The spamming underworld is freaking out on the rumor that Ralsky is going to cough up some sort of plea bargain that involves ratting just about everyone out. Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag has an unconfirmed report from someone saying that Alan Ralsky is currently being held by the feds and his file is sealed [...]
Registry Key to disable USB Storage devices
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Once in a while I have a friend, or customer that needs to keep people from using the USB ports to copy data off of a system. It is easy to lock a machine down, disable the floppy, and cdrom in the bios. Many times when you try to disable USB - it disables it [...]
Bugs in OS X leave an open door for malware
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
There’s a rule of thumb to avoid pickpocketing that is simply, "Don’t be the easiest target." You don’t have to be nigh invincible, just more trouble than the guy standing next to you. It’s a rule of thumb that actually applies to a surprising number of other scenarios as well, and for a few years [...]
Theoretical Hacking for IT Managers
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Not everyone has "l33t skilz" or mass amounts of hardened TCP/IP stack programming experience. When I’m at work, I don’t look at logs all day long, nor do I run security audits every five minutes. I do my job, which takes all of my time. This is the situation for most small to medium sized [...]
All in One Guides: Windows backup and recovery
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
This All-in-One Guide is a collection of resources to help you protect data in Windows servers, desktops and mission-critical applications. The guide is organized into four chapters on Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Exchange Server and SQL Server. Each chapter includes segments with strategies, tools, best practices and troubleshooting advice. We introduce Chapter 4: Active [...]
Will Intels new vPro business PC help to reverse the companys misfortunes?
April 30th, 2006 · No Comments
This week, Intel headed into slightly uncharted waters when it announced a new brand for its business desktops call called vPro. The company also took such a terrible tumble on Wall Street that it has announced a major restructuring. Will vPro help with the revival?