Author Archives: biff

EMET or Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (someone in marketing needs fired) is an MS tool that adds some protections against attacks. It provides some advanced functionality. There are some nice defaults to protect the usual suspects (Like Internet Explorer, Java, and Adobe), but some more advanced options to protect other applications as well. You can […]

Another vulnerability has sprung up you should pay attention to as you need to make some changes to your web browser of choice likely. Read the link below Health Infosec web site Basically you should disable support for SSLv3 and the specifics for most browsers are below. Additionally if you run a web server or […]

Internet Storm Center handler diary notes that has a good bit of info and systems to consider. Shellshock Systems and next steps

I have had trouble emailing this information to some folks I work with, so I am posting here for reference and benefit for others. I am sending this out far and wide since I work with many places…so please stop and read for a moment if you have not been alerted. I am sure some […]

Or at least make it a little harder to be “out there” in the WWW naked. http://prism-break.org/en/ Good listing of all kinds of good software, and a lot of really good transparent technologies if you take a little time to get to know them.    

The more I use computers and specifically Linux, the more I enjoy the terminal. I can quickly get what I want and where I want. Additionally it allows me to see what is really happening under the shiny gloss of a UI and more effectively troubleshoot. I started in a terminal 35 years ago, and […]

A personal blog by a technologist and his observations. This site will have technical and non-technical information, and thoughts and information that I find helpful. Also need a place to put things I want to find later. If you happen to find it, I hope it helps you or amuses. If not, then you might […]