Some (more) Shared Items
DalePrevious post -> Some shared IT items Today's Front (Newspaper) Pages - 609 front pages from 58 countries (and growing) Every morning, more than 500 newspapers from around the world…
‘Plan now to eliminate “power users”; from your domains’ – or face the consequences.
Saw this today over at Steve Riley's blog Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains ... That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can…
Operating ROBBAS
ROBBAS was the Retail Online Branch Banking Alarm System which State Bank Victoria used. It supported approx. 550 bank branches in Victoria. It ran on an old Perkin-Elmer system. The…
Some shared IT items.
The Athens Affair By Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever Social Engineering, the USB Way Those thumb drives…
Surfing the seedy side – Part 2
Back in February 2006 I wrote about Internet Explorer and the index.dat file. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has a "Delete Browsing History" option which leads to the screen on the…
MS06-049 for Windows 2000 SP4 causes data lost.
From Slashbot: "It looks like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958 patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the compressed data is…
Surfing the seedy side…
So you're surfed the seedy side of the 'net and you want to remove the evidence. This means you would have done at least the following with Internet Explorer: Delete…
Patching 10,000 PCs – How I used to do it.
One of my job functions is IT Security, and patch deployment. Actually, I don't do much IT Security these days, for which I'm glad. Security patch deployment is something I…
Mailinator – a website which gives you a free registration email address
No, not Arnold sending email... Mailinator is a free server which allows you to have a personal disposable email account. Ideal for when you need to register on a website…