Category: Security

2008 Server to the Core

One of my favorite websites in the days of Windows 2000 Server was a project from a group of system managers from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; it was titled “Real Men Don’t Click”, and it was dedicated to accomplishing tasks solely using the command line interface (CLI). [...]

Who’s Being Promiscuous in Your Active Directory?

I’m always a fan of more queries and peaks at what is going on in my AD domain, especially at what is happening on the workstations. I was working on some WMI queries to get information about network interfaces using the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class, and thought about promqry.exe. Promqry is a tool provided by Microsoft to [...]

Why former criminals aren’t always the best experts

The Onion reminds us why former criminals don’t always make the best “experts”. I hope information security conference organizers are watching. Bear with the Onion’s silly advertising in the beginning. Ex-Pedophile Shares Tips On How To Make Your Kids Less Attractive Related Posts: Security and IT Pros, I need your help iPhone 4 Ordering and [...]

Warnings Ignored, Thousands of Websites Suffer

“We have been working diligently to recover the information that we can. Currently if your VPS is not responding it is best to consider that all data and information is lost…” This is the start of a message posted on VAServ’s website, a UK-based provider of virtual private servers.  VAServ uses HyperVM,  a virtualization application [...]

CollegeHumor explores the concept of real life tweeting

What if you walked through life providing twarcissistic updates as some are wont to do on Twitter. CollegeHumor.com explores what this might look like.

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