Viruses, trojans, malware, and other problems routinely crop up on Windows machines – they are a fact of life. I just refreshed my computer troubleshooting skills on a Windows 7 laptop that was unusable. It had been taken over by a fake computer security application that was demanding money to continue allow the PC to continue to work. I really did not want to go through and reimage the machine – I just wanted the … Read the rest
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Should I use Supernets and Secondary Address in my network ?
Friday, June 25th, 2010 at
3:23 pm
Many network administrators are using secondary addressing and supernets as a way to “simplify” their IP networks. While there was value in the early days of networking for this practice, many IT managers learned a painful lesson. To better understand why this should not be considered a best practice for IP networks, it is important to look at the underlying technology of most networks to understand the risks. That underlying technology is of course Ethenet.… Read the rest
Intrusion Prevention for the Core
Friday, May 14th, 2010 at
10:15 am
Many customers are taking advantage of Intrusion Prevention Systems at the edge of their network to protect their organizations from Internet based threats. These solutions are often integrated with the organizations firewall, mail and web security appliances. Many of these systems today have expanded beyond signature based solutions to include the concept of reputation based filtering.
While edge network IPS solutions have proved to be an effect means of mitigating threats, the increase in threat … Read the rest
Mebroot and Torpig
Monday, April 5th, 2010 at
1:14 pm
Botnets are becoming more prevalent as malware technology becomes more sophisticated. One of the more diabolical pieces of Malware that hit the scene back in 2008 is called Mebroot. Mebroot is a rootkit that replaces a machines master boot record allowing it to install even before the operating system of the machine installs effectively protecting it from desktop protection software. Mebroot alone is rather benign in that it does not contain any specific applications but … Read the rest
