What is FreeNAS ?
FreeNAS is a small (less than 32Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).
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September 07, 2006
September 01, 2006
Wormy bots exploiting Windows Server flaw: "It took less than a week for underground programmers to modify their bot software to take advantage of the latest Windows flaw, described in security bulletin MS06-040."
August 23, 2006
"Here are some drawings I did to better understand the structure of the headers for IP, TCP, UDP and ICMP. Please feel free to used them for personal uses. If you would like to include them in a publication, please contact me at the address in the drawings. I created the drawings in OmniGraffle on a Mac."
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August 11, 2006
As the spotlight on a dangerous Windows vulnerability grows brighter by the hour, security analysts Thursday said that it's not hype driving the alarms, but genuine fear that a major worm attack is just days away. This is no drill. Thursday's deepening concern was fueled by several releases of new exploit code.
A lot of exploit code activity over this one. See yesterday's post about eEye's scanner for help identifying systems that haven't been patched.
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August 10, 2006
eEye Digital Security Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner: "The Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner is being made available free of charge by eEye. The tool will scan multiple addresses at once to determine if any are vulnerable to the Server Service flaw reported in the Microsoft Bulletin MS06-040. If an IP address is found to be vulnerable, the Retina MS06-040 NetApi32 Scanner will flag that IP address.
This tool does not require administrative privileges on the scanned machines in order to determine if the systems are vulnerable."
Much props to Marc Maiffret, the Chief Hacking Officer at eEye Digital Security. I applaud his company's community involvement.. It's nice to see a company ask the community if they have a need for a product and then go out of their way to deliver, free of charge.
August 06, 2006
A Linux boot diagnostic CD that has many different anti virus,hard disk,networking,bios,system info, and benchmarking apps
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July 19, 2006
here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."
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One in The Hand: "Weekly video cast that promotes knowledge in the handheld arena specifically treos which also contributes to the destruction of the digital divide between the have(knowledge) and have nots."
If you have to reinstall Win XP on the same equipment, you know what a pain it is to reactivate XP. This simple guide tells how to backup and restore two small files so you can avoid reactivation.
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July 18, 2006
ISO Recorder v 2: "ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder."
July 13, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis (Level 400): "Learn to analyze Microsoft Windows crash dumps, diagnose the cause, pinpoint a solution, and resolve the problem. Intended for system administrators, this webcast explains how system crashes occur and what happens when you reboot a crashed system. We lead you through the crash dump analysis process step by step, introducing the latest tools from Microsoft and handy tricks for isolating the cause of a crash.
Presenter: Mark Russinovich, Chief Software Architect and Cofounder, Winternals Software"
Over the past 16 years of being paid to make computers and people work together in perfect harmony, I have collected a number of incidents that make me wince and blush in embarrassment when I think of them. The mistakes I've made fall roughly into three categories: technical, political, and career management.
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July 12, 2006
This post contains some of the RSS feeds I subscribe to:
Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/index.ars/rss
CNET News.com - Security
http://news.com.com/2547-1009_3-0-10.xml
Digg.com
http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml
k-otik Exploits
http://www.k-otik.com/exploits.xml
Help Net Security - News
http://www.net-security.org/dl/bck/news.rss
IronGeek's Security Site
http://www.irongeek.com/irongeek.rss
Lockergnome's IT Professionals
http://feeds.lockergnome.com/rss/it.xml
Microsoft Security Bulletins
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx
Schneier on Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf
SecurityFocus News
http://www.securityfocus.com/rss/news.xml
Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss
Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News
http://www.slipstick.com/rssnews/rssnews.aspx
SysAdminHell
http://sysadminhell.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/sysinternals.xml
Techdirt
http://www.techdirt.com/techdirt_rss.xml
TechNet Events (Texas)
http://www.technetbriefings.com/public/RSS/TX.xml
TechNet Magazine
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/rss/recent.xml
The Blogcast Repository
http://blogcastrepository.com/roller/rss.ashx
Wired News: Top Stories
http://www.wired.com/rss//index.xml
I use RSS Popper: http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/. It integrates into Outlook. Others that I've used are FeedReader www.feedreader.com (standalone) and Wizz RSS Reader https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/424/ (Firefox extension).
Part of being a SysAdmin is collecting information and staying on top of the change curve. Our industry is in constant change; things you learned a year ago can be obsolete now, and new products are introduced every day. Many issues affect the way things are done, and new concepts change the landscape of IT.
How do you stay on top of these changes? Stay informed. With the shear volume of information out there, it's not an easy task. Magazines, RSS feeds, Email lists are just some of the ways to stay informed.
This post focuses on Magazines. These are the ones I get:
Free (as in no money) Magazines
Network World
www.networkworld.com
InfoWorld
www.infoworld.com
Technet
www.technetmagazine.com
Computer World
www.computerworld.com
Information Week
www.nwc.com
eWeek
www.eweek.com
Information Security
www.infosecuritymag.com
SC Magazine
www.scmagazine.com
Network Computing
www.networkcomputing.com
InfoStor
www.infostor.com
Continuity Insights
www.continuityinsights.com
Most of the free magazines can be found at TradePub.com http://www.tradepub.com/ . They link to the subscription page for quick application.
Cost Magazines
Wired
www.wired.com
Windows IT Pro
www.windowsitpro.com/
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