Any half decent sysadmin will routinely test the security of his or her own systems. A good, and sensible, sysadmin will follow up those tests with an independent security audit by a professional company – preferably one which is a member of a recognised industry body (such as CREST). Finding the holes in your security …
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the latest from El Reg
- Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping 2012/05/19
- SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second 2012/05/19
- Ten... Qwerty mobiles 2012/05/19
- Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code 2012/05/18
- Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge 2012/05/18
- Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade 2012/05/18
- What's on the cards at EMC's casino royale next week? 2012/05/18
- Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary 2012/05/18
- Next UK gov CloudStore lumbers online 2012/05/18
- Does Britain really need a space port? 2012/05/18
- HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost 2012/05/18
- RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering 2012/05/18
- Ethernet sales slump punches Brocade in the wallet 2012/05/18
- ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action' 2012/05/18
- UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting 2012/05/18
- UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping 2012/05/18
Monthly Archive: June 2008
Jun 19 2008
dental dos
On Tuesday 17 June, Craig Wright, supposedly “Manager of Risk Advisory Services” in an Australian Company called “BDO Kendalls”, posted a rather odd note to Bugtraq and a few other security related lists titled “Hacking Coffee Makers”. In that posting he said that the Jura F90 Coffee maker (which can apparently be networked) was vulnerable …
Jun 05 2008
xkcd on the openssl fiasco
I’ve had my attention drawn to Randall Munroe’s take on the openssl coding change problem. Beautiful.
Jun 02 2008
debian and the openssl flaw
Ben Laurie wrote about the Debian SSL problem a couple of weeks ago. That particular post has attracted a huge response which is well worth reading if you care about free open source software and/or privacy/security issues (or even if you don’t). The key point to take from the discussion is that about two years …
Jun 02 2008
recursion: see recursion
I have written about how I use one of my slugs to backup my internal files via rsync over ssh. Well it turns out I made a pretty silly mistake in my rsync options. I thought I’d been careful in specifying the files I specifically wanted excluded from the backup (ephemeral stuff, thumbnail images, some …
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