Oct 3 2008 7:59PM GMT
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
Networking,
Firewalls,
forensics,
Security,
tools,
Monitoring,
reporting,
internet,
IT education,
WAN,
LAN,
debugging,
Data security,
SSL,
performance monitoring,
blogging,
design,
anti-virus,
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Performance,
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network analysis,
Sandbox,
Metrics,
wireshark,
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If you are like me, you like those little goodie tools like nmap and wireshark that do something that is actually pretty complex but do it well and have a great following. I just came across this website that I am going to have to take some time to go through and find all of the nuggets it offers. Hope you get some use out of it too and let us know what you discover and how it made your job easier.
LoveMyTool
There are presentations on this site like the Wireshark IO Graph for Response Time Analysis (by Ray Tompkins).This should be a great online learning experience. You will find contributors like Sake Blok, a Wireshark Core Developer and Denny K Miu of StartupforLess.org - A Survival Guide for Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs
Jul 25 2008 12:58PM GMT
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
Security,
Microsoft Windows,
Database,
Development,
Browsers,
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internet,
DataCenter,
DataManagement,
WWW,
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wiki,
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Exchange,
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online identity,
research,
policy enforcement,
awareness,
subscriptions
If you read my previous post then you know we recently went through a major e-mail system migration. Part of that e-mail migration included moving from various naming conventions ( firstname at domain.com, firstname.lastname at domain.com, FirstInitialLastName at domain.com, etc.) to a single naming convention of firstname.lastname at domain.com. Of course this was a huge undertaking and also a political move. One thing I am sure of is that the users will never understand the discussions taking place behind the scenes and will continue to take place about names of other non-user specific mailboxes like a project engineering team or an application mailbox.
Another thing which struck me during this process is that we netizens are identified by our e-mail address in many places on the web. Have you ever looked to see how many places you are identified by your e-mail address? I had to take some time and go out and change my e-mail address wherever the old one was in use. That is not a easy task let me tell you! First of all I went through the mailing lists I subscribe to. I went to their websites and tried to find the area to change my profile’s e-mail address. There are some sites where I could never find this and/or could not change it. So, webmasters & publishers…. please make it easier for your subscribers to modify their e-mail address or credentials! There is this need for companies that may get purchased or change names. There is the need for the users who change names when getting married or divorced…. this should not be as difficult as I found it to be.
In the end, I’m not sure what I will be missing out on when we go back and clean out all of the non-standard names which we will likely do by the end of the year.
Thanks for your time. Let’s be good network citizens together & practice safe networking!
Jul 2 2008 1:57PM GMT
Posted by: Troy Tate
Development,
Browsers,
web,
CIO,
DataManagement,
WWW,
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Performance,
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I recently went to Target and was going to look at my daughter’s wedding registry to see what she and her fiance had selected. When I got to the registry kiosks, there was a Target team member and a customer having problems getting into the service. The Target team member was on the phone apparently with another store or technical support. I heard things like “This is happening at all of the stores.” “We can’t get it to work.” “How do you reset this thing?”
Since there was another open kiosk, I thought I would try my luck and see what errors may appear. The main kiosk user page is intuitive and I immediately found the wedding registry icon and clicked it as any customer would. The application immediately responded with an error page describing some issues with scripting or something. Ahhhh… so I was receiving the same error as the other customer.
Well, the IT detective side came out in me and I started back over at the kiosk home page. Target designed this page with lots of options and ways to get to information that a customer may be looking for. Along the side of this page I found another link to get into the various registry areas, baby, wedding, etc. I clicked on that topic, navigated my way to the wedding registry and lo and behold… I was able to print out my daughter’s wedding registry while the other customer and the Target team members were still grumbling about the other kiosk.
I want to commend Target for providing multiple navigation means around their website. I would hope this experience would encourage more of the same for other vendors. I know, in IT, we like to restrict how many paths a user can go through an application to get to the same information, but in this case, Target did the right thing and provided good customer service.
May 31 2008 2:28AM GMT
Posted by: Troy Tate
forensics,
Security,
Monitoring,
IT education,
antivirus,
Data security,
malware,
wiki,
Policy,
blogging,
humor,
anti-virus,
honeypot,
botnet,
online identity,
Metrics,
honeynet,
research,
policy enforcement,
awareness
Noticebored is a great resource for information security awareness. The blogs are timely and cover a great spectrum of topics with regards to this important topic.
Thanks for your time. Let’s be good network citizens together & practice safe networking!
Apr 10 2008 6:39PM GMT
Posted by: Troy Tate
Security,
Monitoring,
spam,
antivirus,
email,
malware,
blogging,
anti-virus,
online identity
McAfee, Inc. Launches Global S.P.A.M. Experiment
Fifty Volunteers around the World Say ‘Yes’ to a Diet of Spam for 30 Days - Started April 1, 2008
McAfee, Inc. announced the launch of its global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, 50 participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students to retirees - will surf the Web, make online purchases and register for promotions. Participants have been provided with a clean laptop without spam protection and a new email address. Beginning today, they will blog about their experiences daily at this website.
S.P.A.M. Experiment participants are from ten countries spanning the globe, including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Let’s be good network citizens together & practice safe networking!
