I previously posted a defense of password expiration on this blog. Since that time, my perspective has changed and I no longer consider password expiration to be a useful security measure. Here is my reasoning, reposted from my current blog: Password Expiration One common bit of advice with respect to security is to require frequent…
Just got e-mail from Netsol (headers check out as actually from them):
Customized email for your business. Get Philip@DOMAIN.I.ALREADY.OWN [domain name replaced] and start transforming your business with a more professional online image.
Seriously? I already one the domain name and run the e-mail servers that answer for it. And you're suggesting to pay you to do something I already do. Just wow.
I'm currently in the process of getting a new chapter up and running in our nation's capital: LOPSA DC. All of the details are still tentative (as we've not yet been officially approved) but right now we have this information available: Meeting Date: Last Tuesday of each month Meeting Time: 7-9pm Location: Office…
I hit a bug on my openldap server (a virtual machine) that ate up almost all the ram and even though I restarted the openldap (a 30 second process) would only free up a bit of ram. So now the server is running in 300KB of memory and swapping with high load averages and wait…
I needed to upgrade our 3 copies of VMware Workstation for work today. I purchase these using a corporate credit card that is managed by our administrative assistant and is in her name. In the past this has never been a problem but today… I log on to the site, go to the store, select…
As many folks know, vi is a pretty cryptic editor to learn. Here is a fun way to learn the commands. http://vim-adventures.com/
Carolyn Rowland is seeking an intermediate UNIX sysadmin for her team at NIST. Highly recommended! Carolyn rocks! http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/nist.txt
As a Solutions Architect for Red Hat, I have access to very nice internal lab. This lab is great for giving demo’s but it is not set-up for personal use. As such, almost all of the Solutions Architects set up their own lab environments. Since, I recently came from working at a data center, my lab is…
My lab environment is supported by a KVM virtual network at each site. It includes four datacenters, more than a handful of physical machines and tens of KVM based virtual machines. http://crunchtools.com/kvm-virtual-network/
There are several main factors in maintaining password security. When you store your passwords in an encrypted data store, also called a blob, whether it is online or not, there are two factors which need satisfied for a hacker to get your passwords. First, the hacker must gain access to your password data. Second, they must decrypt your…