Today we had a really bad thing that happened, but it ended up not mattering at all. One of my clients was busy doing some work and accidentally deleted a directory with about 1 GB of data in it. I got a very worried email from them and if it could be restored. Fortunately, we [...]
Tags: backups, business continuity, restore data
Last month I sent the Utah Open Source Conference a proposal for a presentation on “Building an Open Source Security Tool Set“. Presentations are voted on by the registered attendees and the other folks who have submitted a presentation. When I was making my votes, I saw that there were a lot of great abstracts. [...]
Tags: open source, security tool, speaking, tech conference
I was working on a PC for someone that had some real issues with spyware on his system. The main symptom that he found was that his computer would hang after boot up. The mouse could move around, but you couldn’t do anything with the Start Menu, desktop icons, or the keyboard. My task was [...]
Tags: combofix, malwarebytes, spyware removal
Tonight the new look for the website went live! Major thanks to Denise Smith for her work on the graphics. Everything she’s done for the business has come out great looking. I’m really excited to have this done. I hope you all enjoy it as well. Technorati Tags: new website
Tags: new website
A while back I wrote a post on how to create a Certificate Authority on Linux, import the CA certificate into Active Directory and use it as an internal CA for your organization. Then I went silent for a while on the subject. Here is the follow up on how to sign SSL certs. We [...]
Tags: bsd, IIS, linux, sign certificate, ssl
Introduction This document contains basic instructions on building a system using FreeBSD 7.0. This covers security standards, configuration options, networking configuration, etc. The information used in this example probably doesn’t match your environment or hardware exactly. Verify your network, hardware and other internal system build standards before using the information contained here. Use this document [...]
Introduction This document contains basic instructions on building a system using FreeBSD 6.3. This covers security standards, configuration options, networking configuration, etc. The information used in this example probably doesn’t match your environment or hardware exactly. Verify your network, hardware and other internal system build standards before using the information contained here. Use this document [...]