-
Actively working against security…
Not only isn’t security the first priority for people, some make a selling point of being able to defeat it! Does the following type of phrase sound familiar to you? Our product uses HTTP, so there will be no problem traversing those pesky firewalls. The solution is of course in the middle (making admins realize…
-
Note to self
A Dell Optiplex (755 if I recall correctly) is refusing to start from time to time. Unplugging it and replugging it after ~10 seconds helps, but I would like to get to the bottom of the problem. I made sure that all the extension cards and memory modules are properly seated. Now it actually gave…
-
Stepping beyond the vendor-centric security solution
Even these days too many organisations have a “one silver bullet solution” mentality when it comes to IT security. Most often the software presented as solution is an AV package. However, I argue, this is far from sufficient and the better solution would be to have experienced and knowledgeable people implement and maintain a multi-layered…
-
Reboot Windows – the hard way
I was clicking around via an RDP session on a Windows server and managed to kill the LSASS process (note to myself: next time pause the view of ProcessExplorer before killing processes!). The one minute till reboot screen promptly appeared and my first reflex was to stop the countdown (this is a trick which came…