Editorial: Study provides insight into hacks, 02/09/07
A new study by the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering shows the Internet wilds are still teeming with hordes of good old-fashioned brute-force attacks and quantifies how frequently machines are attacked and the methods used.
Bradner: Passwords and the limitations of people, 02/08/07
One of the biggest impediments to good security is an understanding of what people can and cannot do. Consider passwords.
Nutter’s Help Desk: NAS: Roll your own or turnkey? 02/05/07
Periodically we have different “special” projects come up where additional storage would be handy to have. Somethimes we are doing mass upgrades of workstations as new ones arrive. Other times we are doing data recovery from a suspect hard drive that …
Insider Threat: Getting started with content monitoring, 02/05/07
When I think about content monitoring, it seems like a daunting task, because there is so much information going in and out of my network. What’s the best way to get started?
Johnson: Technology and the power of pain, 02/08/07
There’s a geek version of the question, “What is the meaning of life?” It’s this: “Why do some technologies take off while others fail?”
Dr. Internet: Getting systems ready for daylight-saving changes, 02/09/07
Daylight-saving time starts on the second Sunday in March this year instead of on the first Sunday in April as it used to. What steps do we need to take to avoid trouble with our computers and networks because of this change?
Cool Tools: Fujitsu expands ultraportable notebook line, 02/09/07
Just when I thought I was happy with my new notebook, along comes Fujitsu with another ultraportable model to make my shoulders jealous.
Gearhead: AppLogic: Enterprise Infrastructure, 02/09/07
Last week we began discussing 3tera’s AppLogic, an infrastructure virtualization system that we’re all kinds of excited about. This week we’ll take a detailed look at how AppLogic works its voodoo that it works so well.
