by wwarren | Jul 18, 2013 | Cloud Computing, Security, Security Alerts
I have said over and over third party trust on security certificates is stupid. I’ve never really been able to articulate in a simple way why it is stupid. Read below and Karl articulates this beautifully. This should be a wakeup call to EVERYONE in the wake...
by wwarren | Feb 18, 2013 | Linux, Open Source, Security, Security Alerts
HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE BEEN ROOTED: ls -la /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9 rpm -qf /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9 ls -la /lib/libkeyutils.so.1.9 rpm -qf /lib/libkeyutils.so.1.9 If you find the file and RPM shows “is not owned by any package” you have been rooted. Currently...
by wwarren | Jan 29, 2013 | Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts
As the world’s various media outlets start talking breathlessly about how dangerous UPNP is anyone who has talked to me(every one of my clients knows about this) I’ve always maintained UPNP was a huge security hole. I’ve seen Microsoft among others...
by wwarren | Jan 24, 2013 | Security, Security Alerts
How lovely. It is one thing to leave backdoors but to make them so insecure is inexcusable. If you value security yank these devices and start hammering barracuda to fix their vulnerabilities. A variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances...
by wwarren | Jan 14, 2013 | Security, Security Alerts
I’m going to watch this to see if it is really something to be concerned about or not. However the e-mail re-infection component has me a bit concerned. If that’s the case anyone who thinks ANY machine with malware can be cleaned is foolish. I may have...
by wwarren | Dec 15, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
Folks…a firewall isn’t enough. You should not even leave the ports open for these devices. the only way to have a remote chance of doing this safely is to use a vpn so your connection is encrypted then you can get it. Honestly for these systems that are...
