by wwarren | Sep 19, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security
Current ssl secured traffic relies on “third Party” trust. Frankly I think it is stupid. You are going to put your trust in security in a central location and tell others that that third party is better at your security than you are? NO thanks. Comodo...
by wwarren | Sep 19, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
In order to execute their attack, Rizzo and Duong use BEAST Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS against a victim who is on a network on which they have a man-in-the-middle position. So in order to “break” the AES component of SSL 3.0...
by wwarren | Sep 13, 2011 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 8
This isn’t even a beta so if it breaks..burps..acts up..etc etc this is not the completed product. The core is basically done which is why developers are getting this. ECC’s testing of this begins immediately after I finish downloading the file. Watch...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2011 | Hardware, Linux, Swift Systems, Vendors
Ecc’s site(among others hosted here) has been spontaneously rebooting randomly over the past couple of days. The server is hosted by Swift Systems in Frederick and finally ECC and Swift personnel had to swap the drives into another identically configured server...
by wwarren | Aug 20, 2011 | AMD, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source
Vmware is really easy but it doesn’t work with machines that do not have hardware assisted RAID. Most of my clients(including myself) don’t have enough I/O demands tht a hardware accelerated card is required. This is when the beauties of Linux MD(NOT DM)...
by wwarren | Jul 16, 2011 | AMD, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
While “clouds” on the internet are a terrible idea they do have their place INSIDE the building. I am currently building and researching exactly this type of internal cloud. In my shop I have two servers. At idle(which is where most of them spend their...
by wwarren | Jul 16, 2011 | Cloud Computing
Not if this trend by just about every internet provider type continues….at least not in the United States. Frankly given the rash of security problems and the fact this is old technology wrapped up into a new term it really needs to be scaled back anyway....
by wwarren | Jul 13, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Office, Windows, Windows 8
Listen to the podcast either at the linked article or download the mp3 here. Rumor has it that Windows 8 – the first version of Windows for ARM as well as x86 and billed as Microsoft’s answer for the PC to iOS and the iPad – will actually ship early: next April....
by wwarren | Jul 12, 2011 | Hardware, Microsoft, Windows 8
The Microsoft Partner Conference is always a good source of information. This makes things intriguing for Win8. If it truly runs on vista class machines then it’ll run on my 5 year old notebook(which currently run win7) just fine. Worried that you’ll...
by wwarren | Jul 9, 2011 | Internet, Security
Unless you have a good product like Astaro protecting your edge i would highly suggest NOT running open wifi. However with the proper precautions in place it is possible to mitigate the possibility of getting tangled up in this. Under the new voluntary...
