by wwarren | Nov 23, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Security, Server 2008, Sophos, Vendors, Windows
I got Hyper-v working finally here at my office. I now have one box hosting 3 virtual mahcines. VM 1 is my Astaro firewall. VM 2 is my main AD file/print/authentication server. VM 3 is my Astaro Command Center which aggregates status and updates from my astaro and...
by wwarren | Nov 19, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
SCADA systems and their ilk simply aren’t designed for security. You do ont want these systems to be acessible by the internet…it is just too easy to take control of them. Get ALL infrastructure systems completely OFF the Internet. Second water utility...
by wwarren | Nov 15, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security
In a statement, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes acknowledged that the site was the target of a coordinated spam attack and explained how it went down. “During this spam attack, users were tricked into pasting and executing malicious javascript in their browser...
by wwarren | Nov 15, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security
Read the earlier article i posted about this. It is not a Facebook issue but the ease of which browsers can be comprised. Facebook explained in a statement that the spam attack was the result of a browser vulnerability that tricked users into running malicious...
by wwarren | Nov 15, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet
Graham Cluely, a senior technology consultant from Internet security firm Sophos, said it was not yet clear how the malicious content was being spread, but added that the website could face long term consequences.”Its precisely this kind of problem which is...
by wwarren | Nov 5, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Server 2008, Sophos, Vendors, Windows
I currently have two virtualization projects going. One is to convert 3 physical server to hyper-v and one is to convert 3 physical servers to KVM. Unfortunately p2v on a domain controller is not only not recommended, it doesn’t work well. Also there is no...
