I’m out on the road this week, right now spending two days at a strategic planning session with a large energy company. This is the kind of trip I actually enjoy- working with an end-user on strategic issues at the executive level where they really want to solve the problem.
A few months ago I picked up a Western Digital external hard drive at Costco since my MacBook’s internal drive was a bit stuffed with digital photos. The WD drive is a pretty nice USB drive and really portable.
I have a love-hate relationship with Vegas.
As someone who’s not the biggest fan of crowds (after way too many years of events security) this isn’t exactly the most relaxing environment. As someone who hates to lose… well, if you think you can win here you’re fooling yourself.
I’m heading out to Vegas tomorrow morning to speak at the Data Center conference.
If any readers are there and want to meet up, just email… *[Email:]: Email *[Twitter:]: Twitter *[Phone:]: Phone
For some reason I think I often end up the middle on some of these vulnerability issues; trying to bring reasonable advice to both technical and less-technical users on hyped security issues.
There’s a new bug, which can reveal your password to any other page on the same domain. Even if you have a master password set, you should clear out all your Firefox stored passwords until this is fixed. There are a lot of ways to take advantage of this, especially on Web 2.14.168.42 sites.
Jim at DCS has this post on scanning SCADA networks.
Here’s the thing. If you’re so scared you’ll break your stuff by running a simple Nessus scan with safe settings, you have a serious problem. Just imagine how screwed you’ll be the first time an attacker decides to scan your systems for you.
Today is the last day some of you will be in front of your computers before the horror of Black Friday. Thus, we are reposting our safe holiday shopping advice.
I’m about to tread, yet again, on religious ground.
John Gruber, attacking an eWeek article, incited a response by Tom Ptacek over at Matasano. I suggest you read those articles, especially the Matasano response, because they highlight very clearly some of the technical differences between OS X and Windows Vista.
Author’s Note: This was originally posted last year, but nothing ever changes:
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Did I say backup yet?