FFTF’s Net neutrality campaign against big media appears to be paying off – according to them. As a collective group, we “The Internet” have fought off corporate mongers before. Can we do it again and permanently institute fair bandwidth allocation for…
After a long hiatus, I’m finally going to post a blog entry! Yeah me!
Just when you were running around looking for something…ANYTHING…to do, three major IT vendors release a crapton of patches.
Just came across the new zero-day in Windows which affects all versions. The patch should be available today under MS14-060, but I haven’t seen it yet to link it. It’s also not showing in WSUS.
Boredom and too many “junk” computers scattered around my home finally congealed into a small-scale IDS system. I’ve been toying with the idea of setting up Suricata to see how it compares to Snort, but I wanted to prototype a…
Nessus just released a plugin to scan for the lastest Cisco ASA vulnerabilities. I haven’t yet heard of any IDS rules for this. I also have yet to try the plugin.
Looks like cybercrooks planted malware on Dairy Queen and Kmart’s point of sale systems. Kmart customers are at risk of having their cards clone, but the company assured customers no personal information was at risk. Dairy Queen did not specify…
Microsoft release the advanced notification today for October 2014, which includes three critical vulnerabilities for Windows, Internet Explorer and .NET. Other patches for Microsoft Office and MSDN will be released as well. Brace for impact.
Two methods, which I’m posting here for my own sanity next time I need them: Recovery Mode Changing the Grub Linux INIT String I’ve used the init string method a few times without bothering to check the recovery console. Hopefully…
Updates to my post from yesterday on the ASA vulnerabilities: