Security
The Kiosk Series - Part Three - Microsoft SteadyState vs Group Policies
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The Kiosk Series - Part Two - Management Considerations For Your Environment
Recently I’ve been put forth to design a kiosk solution for our internal environment. This is the second part of my kiosk series which is going to examine testing and deployment of such a system. To read the first section go to Part One - Choices For Your Environment...... Read More
The Kiosk Series - Part One - Choices For Your Environment
Recently I’ve been put forth to design a kiosk solution for our internal environment. This is the first part of my kiosk series which is going to examine testing and deployment of such a system...... Read More
Virtualizing Your Training Environment For Quick Restoration With VMware
This was a persuasion piece I wrote for work on how to quicker deployments and restores in the training lab. It seems we had employees several times a week had hours of their time taken up by reloading PC’s in the training rooms or in the testing labs. I wrote up this piece which is unfortunately light on detail (if you have questions post them here I’ll answer) for management to look at what we could do to script this solution out. Because of work security requirements I did make some modification to the information listed here, I kept the changes to a minimum though. I actually will be doing a follow up ot this article which will contain the reload scripts and technical nitty gritty. My idea has been at least going so far as to be tested (I have VMware workstation on my work PC now). ..... Read More
Bypassing Your Corporate Firewall Filtering or How to Torture The Firewall Admin
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Internet Protocols That Need To Die - My Top 3
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NFS - Oh I Hate You
Lately we’ve had a security product at work that allows for secure end to end file sharing via NFS. That is about the best thing I can say about NFS at this point. For those not familiar with NFS wikipedia has this description:..... Read More
Why I Hate MD5 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Misconceptions
Most people in the technical field that have delved into cryptographic, public keys, or file authenticity has at one time or another at least heard of MD5. MD5 is a fingerprint that is unique to a file. It is that signature line that is included at most reputable Linux download site to make sure the file you downloaded is not corrupt. It is the thing that is the current bane of my existence...... Read More
Cheap and Dirty Windows Log File Archiving
So your company has a requirement to maintain log files for a year?..... Read More
Life Caching is better then Life Streams
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Spokeo - The Interesting, Exciting, and Scary
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Netflix privacy issues - The Government Knows Your Rentals
My previous post about Palantir Technologies intelligence sorting tool brought up the fact that they used netflix’s data as part of their dataset analysis. Further research shows that netflix routinely releases their full dataset with the user’s private information scrubbed. So for a brief minute here Netflix is in the clear. This goes on further though from issues that have been discovered about this. Netflix didn’t stay clear very long...... Read More
Palantir Technologies -The Intelligence Community’s New Analysis Platform
The Intelligence Community’s New Analysis Platform is the webinar I am attending today. It is hosted by Carahsoft - the same people that hosted the Symantec Webinar I attended. The company whose products this is about is called Palantir Technologies. They have wide spread financial and government data analysis tools. Todays webinar focuses on the government sectors...... Read More
Failing my Civic Duty
The gentleman who runs The Public Ballot IMed me last night to see if I voted and if the way the ballots were handled had changed in my area. I had completely spaced and with real life being hectic the last seven days i had completely spaced and forgot or didn’t take notice. ..... Read More
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0
I’m currently in a webex seminar for Symantec Endpoint Security - the moderator has not joined yet. I thought I would share thoughts and ideas as this went along - and for reference to myself at a later date. I realize this is no apple speech or Nintendo launch - but we all have to get our real time blogging skills up to date somehow. I signed and view no disclosure agreement in the invitation that was given to me and I would not have violated it if I did. This is not specific to my job or company so I don’t feel I’m violating any trust...... Read More
FBI Gets Conviction in Computer Hacking??? Case
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Someone thinks Grandcentral should be criminalized
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Review: Paper Titled "Security Document Theory" by James Moyer
Someone accidentally sent em a link yesterday to a security document that I was meant to read. I read the document (located here) and later discovered he sent me the wrong link. Over all the paper is well written and has some strong theory behind it. I did have some concerns over this paper which I can address here...... Read More
Vulnerabilities in the Ohio Voting system
One of my readers (yes I actually have at least one that’s not related or an outside friend) pointed out an article that he was working that has been picked up by the media...... Read More
PhreakNIC Technology and Hacker Culture Convention
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