FIRE!

Many of you know my day job is that of a systems administrator. As one, I have to be concerned about things like data integrity, backups and disaster recovery. Somehow, while on one of my daily train rides, my mind wandered and hit on the fact that I really don’t perform these functions at home, […]

Ossec insmod error

Let me preface this by saying that if you are not running Ossec on at least your external facing machines, then you should be. It’s great software! The reason this post is here is for reference mostly and maybe to be able to help someone out later via their favorite search engine. I have been […]

Linux PPC and WPA

Crap. That’s my final thought on the subject. Last night I decided to finally update my wireless infrastructure and start using WPA instead of just using mac filtering. It’s not that I am uber concerned about the security aspect of it because, let’s face it, the only way to really have a secure box and […]

Port Scan Attack Detector

I mentioned on the show on it’s last go round that I was looking for a port scan detector for work. At least I think I mentioned it was for work…. Anyhow, long ago I used to use a program called Portsentry, which still appears to be around, but in disuse. So, I went looking […]