Posts Tagged ‘Security’

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In: Security| SysAdmin

2 Jan 2010

We launched our Hosted Exchange 2007 Product just over a year ago. And for the most part, things have gone great.
One of our early decisions was to balance the security of the system while making the system as user friendly as possible. Originally, we had a pretty strict password policy. [...]

WordPress Security Concern

In: Security| SysAdmin

13 Sep 2009

I’m not sure if you’ve applied the latest updates for wordpress but I did last week. However, it appears that someone got in to one of the blogs that I manage and created an account for themselves. They didn’t do anything with it, but they DID have full admin access. I’m assuming [...]

Business as usual

In: Micro$oft| Security

31 May 2009

Over the past couple of years, I have been able to tolerate Microsoft a bit more than I used to. When your primary income relies on people purchasing Exchange and OCS accounts that you provide the back end provisioning and automation for, you quickly realize where your bread is buttered. [...]

Some people need a beating…

In: Politics

18 Apr 2009

OK, I get people wanting to stand up for their rights, but from the very beginning, this guy was an arrogant asshole. He has no respect for authority. He was abusive and non cooperative when asked simple questions. He deserved to be detained.
Now, the person stating he has no [...]

How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse

In: Security

5 Apr 2009

On the surface, April 1 came and went without a peep from the dreaded Conficker megaworm. But security experts see a frightening reality, one where Conficker is now more powerful and more dangerous than ever.
In the first minute of April 1, Conficker did exactly what everyone knew it was going to do: It successfully phoned [...]

Airline Security

In: In the news

3 Jun 2008

Are you freaking kidding me?
A man wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon character holding a gun was stopped from boarding a flight by the security at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, said he was “stumped” at the objection to his Transformers T-shirt.
Mr Jayakody said he had to change before boarding as security [...]

Air Marshals

In: Security

28 Mar 2008

Recently CNN ran an article called Air marshals missing from almost all flights.
In it they have stated that:
Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.
SO WHAT?!?
Honestly, [...]


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