by wwarren | Feb 22, 2011 | Security
It’s funny to me that folks seemed shocked at the latest treasure trove of goodies from the HBGary email spool. Basically these folks built custom malware on behalf of their government clients. ARSTechnica digs in (with pretty impressive technical depth, I might add)...
by wwarren | Feb 19, 2011 | Internet
Ask Ars: How should my organization approach the IPv6 transition?.
by wwarren | Feb 19, 2011 | Security
I had to get this link posted. I will comment once i have a chance to fully read this article. Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government.
by wwarren | Feb 15, 2011 | Security, Security Alerts
very very deep. There has GOT to be criminal charges against the companies involved….of course with the blatant stealing the banks are doing who knows? Folks wonder I see paranoid…if the good guys are willing to break whatever law they have to for...
by wwarren | Feb 14, 2011 | Security, Security Alerts
Read this…people like this are worse than the “bad” guys. Also keep in mind all of the stuff you are putting out there on Facebook and other sites. It’s not hard to build a scarily detailed profile of you no matter “careful” you...
by wwarren | Feb 14, 2011 | Hardware, Printers
It’s apparently a known issue. I had to Google it to find this as this is NOT on Canon’s site.
by wwarren | Feb 13, 2011 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
An IE problem IS a windows problem due to how ie/windows is architected. You cannot remotely take over a machine with firefox unless you are running as admin. You CAN take a over a machine if you are running IE even in non-admin mode due to IE being directly...
by wwarren | Feb 13, 2011 | Hardware, Intel
So Intel is going to continue to sell defective products. The new fixed parts won’t be out until Apr-June timeframe. Yes you can work around the defect by not using the sata-2 ports…why should we have to do this? If anyone buys a sandy bridge part...
by wwarren | Feb 12, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, SBS 2008, Server 2008, Windows
I tire of the MS lockin. What I’ve done is begun to build another deployment option for my clients( all of which are under 10 users. For now i’ll user server 2008 for authentication and file/print sharing…in a vm. Another vm holds a vmware...
by wwarren | Feb 11, 2011 | Security, Security Alerts, Vendors
So the list grows. Started by a law firm..at the request of BofA. Unless this was gov’t sanctioned there’s already tons of folks needing to get irons. So far there’s been zero mention of a court order so this is all an illegal attempt. So the...
