My staging servers cannot boot from CD-ROM, therefore I use a boot disk. For this reason alone, I have floppy drives in all my systems. I also save time by booting from floppy disk and installing operating systems over the network. A tip for anyone who’s looking to become RHCE certified: install RHEL using a [...]

When contracted to perform a network security evaluation or penetration test, one of the most important stages is the pre-evaluation phase. During this phase, you develop contacts and gather information about the company. It’s important to determine the scope of your efforts with your customer and sign an engagement agreement. In your contract, you square [...]

Literally right after RSA, SCALE is happening February 10th and 11th. I plan on making the drive out with several other friends from school.
The presentations I’m looking forward to:

New & Improved: How a More Modern IT Security Model Can Better Protect Enterprise Data on Linux Systems
Proving End-to-End Security in a Linux Environment
Web [...]

Guy Kawasaki has a very interesting blog and today posted “The top 10 stupid ways to hinder market adoption.”
14. Supporting only Windows Internet Explorer.
What Guy fails to mention, is having a website that’s always available to its users. Supporting only IE makes websites unavailable to many users who use other browsers. It’s part of the [...]

I am not 100% positive or if this just merely coincidence, but I have a feeling my sister has fallen victim to the TJX security breach reported last week. Fraudulent transactions originating in France (of all places) began January 10th, comprosing four withdrawls: $3.90, $1.30, $.04, and $.01. Finally, $120 was debited and my sister [...]