A recent Threatpost article http://threatpost.com/en_us/a3t where Greg Hoglund comes pretty close to ranting about the actions of Anon and that they did not “hack” HBGary – they just weaseled their way into the HBGary Google account – does illuminate some of the issues with using Cloud services. You see, Greg tried to do some damage …
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Replicate Me!
One thing I deal with all too frequently these days, is a rather unique and overly testy MSSQL db server. I have the distinct displeasure of being thrown to the lions as the resident pseudo-DBA, since there is a lack of a real DBA. Unfortunately, my years of MySQL experience didn’t prepare me for the …
*Sigh* What’s ‘Google’ for BS?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39745736/ns/technology_and_science-security/ This stuff just won’t die – but what is even more annoying than the never-ending banality of this journalistic tripe, is the mind-numbing notion that Google does anything inadvertently. In the words of Johnny Rotten ‘Bollocks!”. You don’t inadventently War-Drive custom network-sniffin’, gas-sippin’, picture snappin’, Google-mappin’ vehicles through 100-some-odd countries by accident folks. How …
Why SORBS sucks.
I like RDNSBLs – they are extremely useful, and when used properly, they can reduce your SPAM intake by 90% or more easily. When they don’t work well though, they kind of suck. No, actually, they really suck. One big problem with SORBS is it’s overly aggressively blacklist of supposed dynamic IP addresses – many …
Making the web work for you – Part 1
The Working Web I’m going to do a series on leveraging web technologies to compliment your marketing strategies, promote your products and services, and communicate with your clients. It all starts with your website – which for some is merely a billboard or worse yet, a business card – those days are far behind us …
NO IP for you
http://technology.canoe.ca/2010/07/26/14833401.html 340 days worth of IPv4 address space left – can IPv6 save the day? Gone will be the familiar 4 octet (32-bit) addresses like 123.123.123.123, replaced instead with something like 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334 – hexadecimal 128-bit. Will certainly take some getting use to. IPv4 address space exhaustion can be blamed on many factors, the exploding accessibility …
Auto Application Changes Could Spell Trouble
Changes to the auto application mandated by the Ontario government poses some serious repercussions for Ontario brokerages. From the looks of things the new app will be part of the TAM 10.5 upgrade due out in August. As already discussed in the appliedusers forums we are already seeing issues with the 10.x TAM versions and …
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RU listening?
Russia to try to clean-up it’s .ru TLD. I mean – file this under “about time” – that top level domain has become synonymous with malware, spam and criminal activity. It’s a great concept if put into action and enforced, so we will have to wait and see. read the article
A Diatribe on Dilution
Some have voiced concerns that having AppliedUsers as well as ASCnet threatens to dilute either the pool of knowledge or ASCnet membership and will have a negative impact on the support system for Applied products. I do not buy into that line of thinking, AppliedUsers may provide some friendly competition (OK perhaps the friendly is …
ASCnet Goes Walkabout
Looks like ASCnet has had enough with the gators and hurricanes and is opting instead for snow and Oprah. More details here…