Lockergnome's IT
Professionals ~ September 20,
2004
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thawte Crypto Challenge VI and Lunch Hour
Challenge (Press Release)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Lockergnome
Cape Town, South Africa, 9 September, 2004: thawte consulting
(pty) ltd., the second largest digital trust service company
worldwide, is launching their Crypto Challenge VI and Lunch Hour
Challenge competitions on the 9 September. Both competitions are free
to enter and aimed at Cryptography hobbyists of all levels: from
beginners wanting to learn, to experts looking for a challenge.... [Continued]
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Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any
kind on your Windows networks . . . (Security)
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"So this is my first ever blog entry and seeing as how I'm a
senior member of the PSS Security Incident Response team, you may
think I've stopped taking my medication by opening with a title like
the one above! Medication issues notwithstanding, it's true - you
should NOT be using passwords of any kind. Why? For starters,
passwords are ridiculously easy to guess or crack. Worms like Agobot /
Phatbot / Polybot / SDBot... [Continued]
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Robert Hensing's Incident Response WebLog
(Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
I'm going to continue to read this guy. I suggest that - if you're
interested in security on Windows - you should, too. "Monday, August
09, 2004 # The silent war - combat evolved: Hacker Personas
"Information warfare" is a term I think about every day. It is very
much an applicable term for *businesses* (warfare, it's not just for
governments anymore ) to use when talking about their role in
*defending* their computer networks.... [Continued]
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Is it Time to Consider Another Web Browser?
(Download)
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The majority of the computer users in the world probably spend
more time considering which pair of shoes to wear to work than with
which browser to surf the World Wide Web. Most are content just using
the browser software that came with their system; after all, it gets
them where they want to go and typically handles the tasks that are
requested of it after arriving at their destination. Unlike typical
software, i.e. word... [Continued]
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Admin Guide to Patch Management
(Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Meryl Evans
New Boundary Technologies has published the third and final
chapter of "The Administrator Shortcut Guide to Patch Management." The
eBook takes a look at the challenges and benefits of automated
software patch management. Chapter 1 discusses the benefits of
automated patch management, Chapter 2 addresses methodologies for
achieving operational excellence in patch management, and Chapter 3 is
an overview of the available tools for automating and managing this
mission-critical IT function, and criteria for selecting... [Continued]
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PowerPoint For Techies: Animation triggers
(Office)
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I've been sending samples of the bullet-less presentation right
and left. Seems quite a few of the Lockergnome readers really want to
know how to do a better job with their presentations, but don't know
where to start.... [Continued]
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IPMonitor (Download)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeremy Cohn
I'm a freak for uptime, as any IT manager should be. I have looked
around the Net for quite some time looking for a good solution to
monitor the network, and let the IT admins know if there is a problem
of some sort. After looking and reading plenty of reviews, I found a
great program called IPMonitor... [Continued]
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Managing IM in an Enterprise (Network)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Meryl Evans
It's arguable that organizations are discovering instant messaging
(IM) the same way they "discovered" the PC and Internet �?? after a
significant percentage of their employees were already using it. IM is
akin to a text-based telephone conversation. Participants communicate
with each other by sending typed messages back and forth over the
Internet in real-time. In the past few years, this method of
communicating has jumped from obscurity to everyday practice for
millions of users.... [Continued]
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Backup Options (Backup)
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Small businesses can enjoy one benefit from all the wooing by
enterprise vendors: Some are actually doing a good job tailoring their
mature (and fairly bug free) products to fit SMBs. I know some of you
would rather floss than back up, but your backup options are
improving. Good tools need to make files easy to back up, restore and
move offsite, and between them, EVault and Phoenix Technologies
provide complimentary systems. EVault offers easy... [Continued]
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Building a 911 Rescue CD - Part 2
(Troubleshooting)
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In Part 1, I promised to give you a few tips on how to get started
building your 911 Rescue CD and how to avoid a couple of mistakes I
made while I was building mine. You'll save yourself some trouble (as
well as a few wasted CDs) if you read the documentation on the 911CD
site before you run the CD builder for the first time. You CAN just
run it without adding any... [Continued]
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