After upgrading check for new services as the Internet Storm Center noted after a firewall operator noted new streaming data coming to/through firewall. Upgrading the NAS server caused a media streaming service to turn on. And that is how it starts. After an upgrade some months ago a service is turned on, even though … Read more
Patch your Google Chrome – From cve.mitre.org Why would a Google Chrome vulnerability be important? because if you happen to bump into a nefarious website (unbeknown to you) it will affect your Google Chrome and then little by little the hacker will gain more information. Pretty soon there will be open ports that you may … Read more
We are all busy – the department is smaller, as we lost Jim, he retired. John was fired in the last layoffs. But what happened – we soldiered on. We have gotten new servers installed, systems retired taught the users a new program. It is as if we had Jim and John still here. But … Read more
System admin Jim is sitting in a café getting his favorite cappuccino, while waiting for the drink to be prepared he flips open the notebook computer and goes to his favorite website – checking on sports and news. Then of course checks his email with outlook on his desktop. What he did not realize is … Read more
Our Linux admin is a pretty sharp guy, he is working on updating website technology (php version). We have to keep up with patches and new technical abilities. Unbeknownst to him, a hacker somehow placed a “crontab” entry which will run every 60 minutes shutting down defenses and opening other attack avenues. The hacker used … Read more
