The first half of 2012 was pretty bad — from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches — and the second half wasn’t much better, with events including Symantec’s antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.
Barry Hesk
Intrinsic Network Solutions
Most people are familiar with interacting with the ASA over HTTPS to get captures off the box, but every CLI mode is available using a browser. There are a lot of handy practical situations where you’d want to do this, including simply avoiding using a steaming pile of Java. Below is the simplest way to […]
Interacting With the Cisco ASA CLI Using the HTTPS Interface
iggdawg
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:02:50 GMT
Barry Hesk
Intrinsic Network Solutions
A zero-day Java exploit found for sale in the criminal underground has renewed calls to disable the cross-platform runtime environment in Web browsers.
Latest Java zero-day exploit renews calls to disable it
Barry Hesk
Intrinsic Network Solutions
EE and Vodafone customers get free Wi-Fi access on the London Underground tube network when Virgin Media starts charging in 2013
Virgin Media signs Tube Wi-Fi deal with EE and Vodafone
Jennifer Scott(#
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:32:38 GMT
I wrote an earlier blog article about using the reload command. The reload command used to be the only tool to recover from configuration errors when working on a device remotely. You would save your configuration and issue the ‘reload in’ command, giving yourself enough time to make your changes. If you finished in time […]
Cisco Configuration Archive & Rollback: Using ‘Revert’ Instead of ‘Reload’
Charles Galler
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:00:49 GMT
Resubmitted by Barry Hesk
Intrinsic Network Solutions
Hackers have compromised two servers used by the FreeBSD Project to build third-party software packages. Anyone who has installed such packages since Sept. 19 should completely reinstall their machines, the project’s security team warned.
Hackers break into two FreeBSD Project servers using stolen SSH keys
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council today issued guidelines on how businesses storing, processing or transmitting payment-card information should look at doing an annual risk assessment.
PCI Council publishes risk-assessment rules for card-processing networks
Three researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a software protocol that better manages high traffic loads on a Wi-Fi router when too many users connect, the university said on Tuesday.
Microsoft users – time to run Windows Update again…. lnkd.in/2vh3nD
Cisco reports an 18% rise in profits, hitting $2.1bn for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013, on the back of its integrated datacentre systems
Cisco profits jump 18% thanks to datacentre strategy
Jennifer Scott(#
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:45:18 GMT
