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Category Archives: Tech Zone

Technical info for IT professional and network administrators.

Did the FBI plant backdoor vulnerabilities in OpenBSD IPSEC?

Did the FBI plant backdoor vulnerabilities in OpenBSD IPSEC?

on January 14, 2011

Recently an interesting story broke out where Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD project Manager) received an email from Gregory Perry, former CTO of NETSEC claiming that about 10 years ago the FBI paid developers working on the IPSEC implementation of OpenBSD …

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Are you being watched?

Are you being watched?

on December 29, 2010

Following a comment by one of our valued readers, Patrick, I decided to write an article about Sniffing because the subject is way too broad to discuss via comments. Patrick mentioned an event which happened recently. A Chinese Telecommunications company …

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5 Benefits of switching to Virtualization Technology

5 Benefits of switching to Virtualization Technology

on December 24, 2010

In today’s world, the main reason why IT organizations are considering virtualization of some, or all, of their computing infrastructures is that the technology helps reduce costs drastically. Consider, for example, the case of the server infrastructure where you would …

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Why can’t I access the DSN I just created?

Why can’t I access the DSN I just created?

on December 20, 2010

The switch to 64 bit was an essential step for computing; however, the bliss of having the extra addressing space was not all that we got unfortunately. The mixture of 32 bit and 64 bit environments has been a source …

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Patching Season?

Patching Season?

on December 16, 2010

The holidays are coming with a large number of security updates releases from vendors. So far this month we already have the following important updates: Google Chrome version 8.0.552.215 was released on 2nd December with 13 security fixes, 4 of …

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Why being Proactive in Security is Essential

Why being Proactive in Security is Essential

on December 9, 2010

We have always been taught that once your system is compromised you need to either restore a clean backup or re-install the system in order to be safe. This is because the person who compromised the machine might have installed …

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5 Popular Hacking Techniques – Do you know your enemies? (Part 2)

5 Popular Hacking Techniques – Do you know your enemies? (Part 2)

on November 30, 2010

Welcome back. In part one, we explained the importance of understanding the threats against your network and looked at three common hacking techniques that the bad guys might use against you. They included Attacking Defaults, SQL Injection, and Exploiting Unpatched …

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5 Popular Hacking Techniques – Do you know your enemies?

5 Popular Hacking Techniques – Do you know your enemies?

on November 29, 2010

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” – Sun Tzu While the famous Chinese general may not have had hacking techniques in mind when he penned The Art of War some 2500 …

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5 Benefits of Automating Patch Management

5 Benefits of Automating Patch Management

on November 25, 2010

In a previous article I wrote about software patches and why relying on auto updating systems of individual applications is not a practical solution for corporate networks. You need a patch management solution for proper patch management. But what are …

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8 Steps to Securing a Public Machine

8 Steps to Securing a Public Machine

on November 23, 2010

Mohammed S Ali, wrote an interesting article about the dangers of using public PCs, so to continue with the topic I’ll be explaining what you need to do to secure a machine for public use. 1. Physical Security The first …

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