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Sunday, March 16th, 2008An interesting report from TechWeb, regarding a test by AvanteGarde, a marketing-communications firm. Seems AvanteGarde wanted to test the security of “out of the box” operating systems to see how soon they would be compromised. Included in the test were machines “equipped with Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 [...]
Excellent Security Tip With A Twist
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I’m not sure who to credit this to exactly, but I discovered this tip on the Hsphere Control Panel message board. The person who posted the tip goes by the nickname of “WebDude.”
It was one of those, “Why didn’t I think of that?!?” moments when I read this tip, involving the command ‘chattr’ that comes [...]
Hunting Out Rootkits
Sunday, March 16th, 2008For a long time, I have been using a tool called chkrootkit that I use on a daily basis for checking my servers and linux PC’s for the possibility of a root kit being installed. Obviously, this is just one tool in a whole security system.
Recently I was made aware of another similar tool that [...]
Protect Your Ports
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Port scanners are great little tools for an administrator to have. I regularly port scan my boxes to see what ports are listening for connections. There shouldn’t be anything open that I don’t know about – if there is, then I’d be doing some really quick checking to see what was going on, and I’d [...]
Buy A Better Lock, Right? No… Not Always!
Sunday, March 16th, 2008It amuses me sometimes to hear about the security practices of individuals, trying to protect their “stuff.” Take a look at some back yard sheds sometime. Often, you’ll find their owners have decorated with some ultra-expensive, hardened steel, guaranteed to be unpickable or some such thing, in order to protect a 100.00 lawnmower, some cheap [...]
Mac GNU Privacy Guard
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Want to install GPG on your Mac? Here’s the place to start.
Link to: http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/