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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. [...]
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- Tags: Hosted Exchange, Policy, Security
WordPress Security Concern
13 Sep 2009I’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 [...]
Verisign Spam
21 Jul 2009Some people never learn. If you spam me, there is a good chance that I WILL mock you on the internet. Sure my site gets all of 2 readers a week, but they will know how big of a jackass you are.
Here is the spam that I got from Verisign:
—— Forwarded Message
From: “Borgches, [...]
Is there really that much money in it?
9 Jun 2009Disclaimer: I’m not a Comcast subscriber, but I play one on TV
Comcast has me scratching my head. A friend of mine pointed out the following post on the Comcast goofiness. For a long time now they have been messing with DNS and if you happen to screw up and look up a site [...]
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- Tags: Ads, Cheap Bastards, DNS, Internet
Business as usual
31 May 2009Over 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. [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Security, Stupid People
Every once in a while one of the LUG lists that I am on decides to have a big dick contest and everyone shows off who has the better uptime. Its actually a way of generating traffic on mailing lists that have greatly suffered any sort of reasonable traffic in a while. [...]
How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse
In: Security
5 Apr 2009On 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 [...]
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- Tags: Security
Your privacy at stake…
In: In the news| Politics| Security
26 Mar 2009Looks like it might be time to install TrueCrypt for all of my files.
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- Tags: Encryption, Privacy, Your Rights
Spam Drop!
In: In the news| Security| Spam
22 Nov 2008Normally when I see articles such as this where spam volumes have dropped between 40-75%, my BS meter starts to peg on high. But more articles are coming out stating that 500,000 bots have been bagged.
Surprisingly, we have seen the drop here at the office. We have a store and forward [...]
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- Tags: Spam, Spam Volume Drop
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