In this sequel to last month’s blog, A Week of Attack Stats, we are expanding our stat survey using the same data collection methods while excluding the original week’s stats. Let’s see if our assertion of a causal relationship between social isolation and cyber attacks remains true.
Read MoreThe new version of Zoom will be mandatory on May 30th. It has been available since April 27th as an optional upgrade but users running older versions will not be able to join calls after the 30th. Many very good enhancements have been added to client: SSH uses GCM encryption, IPsec, OpenVPN, TLS, and others as well.
Read MoreWe ran into a unique problem last month - we had a small console server to install at a colo facility for out-of-band console access. Unfortunately our gear is sandwiched between other equipment and is in a two post rack so we couldn’t easily put the console server nearby. What to do?! 3D-print a bracket to attach to the back of the existing equipment and mount the console server, obviously!
Read MoreThe whole system needs an overhaul: encryption is generally not recommended or tacked on as an afterthought, UIDs are ancient and unneeded, and everyone tacks on their own implementations haphazardly leading to accounts-daemon or pam_limits or even ldap/active directory configuration.
Read MoreQueue the sequel: The Unicorn Project was published last year. The story is set during the same time period as the Phoenix Project but this time it’s from a software developer’s perspective. Maxine is scapegoated for an outage she could not have caused; an example of a 4th ideal violation (more on this later). Her punishment is reassignment to the Phoenix Project but her work ethic enables her to spearhead vast improvements through rebellion and direct subversion of ITIL processes.
Read MoreI recently broke into an Active Directory domain controller service account. They were running old software that was both publicly accessible and vulnerable. I’ll take this moment to remind everyone about the importance of patching your software!
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