This report from SANS was an eye-opener for me:
http://www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/
Waves of targeted email attacks, often called spear phishing, are exploiting client-side vulnerabilities in commonly used programs such as Adobe PDF Reader, QuickTime, …
Don’t ever re-use passwords between sites. Here is an article about high-profile security sites getting hacked:
Day in and day out, I cannot imagine doing my job without the internet, and specifically Google searches, to find those obscure solutions to all manner of technical problems. Here are some links to improve your own Google searching experience:…
Gartner is recommending that enterprises not deeply into a Vista roll-out should wait for Windows 7. It’s no secret that a majority of companies surveyed are keeping XP rather than deploy Windows Vista to the desktop. Common complaints include performance, …
I’ve been wondering why there aren’t more free internet remote support solutions given that there is very good open source code out there to accomplish this (i.e. VNC). Using VNC requires knowing the host IP and having TCP 5900 open …
What should we do about Vista? The major hardware vendors are making it harder to get XP pre-installed, so licensing will begin to get dodgy. Also Microsoft will end “Mainstream support” of XP on 4/14/09 http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&C2=1173&x=13&y=13
I went to my first SF Tech Meetup today and learned a little bit about widgets. These are little chunks of content that you can embed in a webpage or blog and e-mail around. Widget people like to use the …
I am starting to get into things like Technorati and Digg and Reddit.
ASR Backups are a cool way to get system state backups of Windows 2003 server. They are cooler than regular NTBackup system state backups, because you can do a “bare metal” restore by booting a system with no OS to …
Here are the main problem I see with rolling Google Apps out to Outlook users who are used to Exchange: