If You Use A Baby Monitor.......
Then you may want to watch this and consider mitigating yet another threat on your home...
View ArticleBrute force attempts on server-through Terminal Services
Today I discovered someone using a bot to brute force into one of my servers. The server has a public IP and Terminal services is open on the firewall to this server. Two IP addresses were spamming...
View ArticleSubverting System Monitoring
Not sure which group this best fits into:We have a small number of students who feel it is their right to use school equipment for game play. In some cases, if we attempt to lock their machines, they...
View ArticleIs it me or has the IT world become a bad movie?
Heratbleed, Java exploits, end of life for XP and now another longstanding issue with IE that has everyone running about in a panic.I feel like a cow in the presence of a cattle prod- even though...
View ArticleZero Day Flaw Mitigation
So we have all heard about the Zero Day flaw IE has, and XP users are out in the cold (despite plenty of warning that support would not be forthcoming). We can tell our users not to use IE, and delete...
View ArticleSubverting System Monitoring
Not sure which group this best fits into:We have a small number of students who feel it is their right to use school equipment for game play. In some cases, if we attempt to lock their machines, they...
View ArticleWhat are you doing to protect your users against the latest IE 0Day?
Just generally, what, if anything, are you doing to mitigate the risk of the latest zero day in IE? Are you doing anything differently from the February 0 Day that was discovered? Is it worth spending...
View ArticleTracking down a login event
Ok, so for the last couple of weeks I have noticed that my account shows logging into a specific server at around the same time every day. I see this via the Lansweeper tool, which is actually hosted...
View ArticleWebcast: The Evolution of Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
Arctic Wolf has just released a new educational, on-demand webcast“The Evolution of Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)” In it, Tom Clare of the Arctic Wolf product team will discuss the...
View ArticleZero Day Flaw Mitigation
So we have all heard about the Zero Day flaw IE has, and XP users are out in the cold (despite plenty of warning that support would not be forthcoming). We can tell our users not to use IE, and delete...
View ArticleCameras switching from NTSC to PAL and back randomly
We have 2 TruVision TVN20's and ~20 Interlogix IP Dome cameras - UVD-IP-EVRDNR-VA2's (not the -P versions). Plus 2 bullet cameras - GES TVC-M1245E-2M-NThe cameras are set to record continuously 6am-9pm...
View ArticleMake PDF "copy protected" to avoid duplication?
OK, so I know this may sound like a somewhat unusual question. I also know that "trying to keep bits from being copied is like trying to keep water from getting wet". But we have a request here at...
View ArticleNasty IE 0 day effects IE 6 - IE 11
Microsoft has no fix, just work arounds such as a software package that only makes it harder to exploit the vulnerability.News article on...
View ArticleIf You Use A Baby Monitor.......
Then you may want to watch this and consider mitigating yet another threat on your home...
View ArticleKaspersky reports system disconnected from network during network agent deployme
So far the new rollout of Kaspersky v10 has been painless but I have run into an issue. I am trying to deploy the network agent to the owners laptop and every time it returns an error saying that the...
View ArticleCrypto Defense
One of my user's PCs infected her computer with the new ransomware:http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/cryptodefense-cryptolocker-imitator-makes-over-34000-one-monthHere, Symantec says that the...
View ArticleFavorite NVR for IP Cams
Whatsurveillancesoftware is your favorite?I've tried a number of IP cam NVR software packages. Most of the free/cheap ones seem to lack in the playback department.NUUO:I have an old NUUO analog dvr...
View ArticleDongle to login to computer remotely
Is there such thing where if I want to be able to connect to my work computer from home I am required to have a physical dongle plugged into my home computer? This would make things much more...
View Articleaward winning stupidity
The other day I found out one of our clients has been using outlook contacts as a password manager.They win the dumbest user of the year award from my perspective, anyone have some comparable cascading...
View ArticleMy little security story
This happened over the weekend. I'm visiting my parents when I go down into the basement where my father is at the computer. He calls me over to check something out, and shows me this "neat" thing...
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