Working as a Security Consultant, I’m less involved in Solaris administration tasks. Anyway, for some customers, I still need to manage servers running Solaris 10. One of the greatest features Solaris 10 introduced is the “zones” concept (to keep things easy, it’s the virtualization mechanism introduced by SUN). I already
Month: May 2007
Pay your bill or die!
In New-Zealand, a women under oxygen assistance died… She did not pay the bill from her local electricity provider. So they cutted the power!
Belgacom ADSL Quota suxx!
When Belgacom will realize that quota fixed on their ADSL offers are not relevant anymore! When the ever-growing offer of online *legal* services (video on demand, streaming, collaborating tools, …) and the remote office (VPN) users, quotas must be adapted! Working from home today, my Internet connectivity is rate-limited to
*shing
The IT professionals are addicted to new terms and abbreviations. In security too. New terms are invented to describe new technics or potential issues. Everybody know “phishing” This time, I found those: Pharming – is the manipulation of DNS records to redirect victims. Smishing – uses SMS (Short Message Service)
I got my eID!
Finally, I got my eID! To be honest, I don’t use systems which require an eID right now but, I’ve got mine! That’s really cool to have a state-of-the-art ID card. Really? When I picked up the card to my local administration, the employer printed a dump of the data
Google Belgian Site
Google announced a few weeks ago their intention to install a Belgian site. It seems that their project is ongoing for a while. My father works for a company which has a site just next the future Google implantation in Baudour. As for every new implantation in a industrial zones,
word_press_upgrade_count++;
One more time, it was time to upgrade my wordpress instances… Who said that computer security was exciting? forever() { if (security_issue_fount) { wait_patch(); install_path(); congratulate_yourself(); } } According to this blog, the WordPress community is vulnerable! Soon, a MoWB [1] ? [1] “Month of WordPress Bugs”
A new movement against politics
Federal elections are planned in Belgium. On June 10th, we are invited to elect our new political leaders. As usual, there are the classical movements (the Blue one, the Red one or the the Green one) [1]. But there are always nice protest movements against them… This time, it’s NEE,
Symantec Threatcon
The Symantec threatcon is a measurement of the global threat exposure, delivered as part of Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System (as defined on their website). I added a small PHP hack which grab the current status. Check on the right frame –>
How to define effective security policies?
Security policies are mandatory in all organizations. Your users must known what they can or can’t do, when and how. They must describe how security incidents are handled. Security policies can also be used in case of litigation and must avoid all ambiguity! I found a nice white-paper about this