Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)

2012-11-03 Thread Mike Tavares
of it right now). I know some in the insurance industry and others are also in the same boat. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Mike Tavares [mailto:miketava...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, November

Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)

2012-11-01 Thread Mike Tavares
My guess is it is going to later rather sooner for most companies. I recently attended a CEO level conference and the question was posed to them if they were taking any precautions now for BYOD’s and of the 30 or so CEO’s that were in the room 2 raised their hands. Kinda scary when it stop and

Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)

2012-11-01 Thread Mike Tavares
For me, my list comes for almost 20 years of IT related experience, along with several dozen high profile consulting gigs I have done in that timeframe, talking with other admins, and just keeping up with the day to day security issues that arise. From: Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, October 31

Re: 7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked (huh?)

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Tavares
1. Listening to Management tell you that security is inconvenience to the end users and keep it as simple as possible. 2. All new users being created with a generic password. 3. Letting users run as Admins (see #1) 4. Letting users BYOD with absolutely no policies in place to control them 5. A fai

Re: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread Mike Tavares
On the subject of mobile malware, it maybe over exaggerated at the moment, but it only takes 1 instance for a mobile device to be infected. Depending on the type of malware it could be more than the users contacts that get sent back to the malware authors. Then it becomes an issue of why weren

Re: AT&T & iPhone

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Tavares
Just AT&T users? it appears that Verizon is having issues today http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/report-verizon-wireless-data-outage-20111221-KC From: Cesare' A. Ramos Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AT&T & iPhone Anyone seeing or experiencing an

Re: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Tavares
Its on by default in 2010 as well From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD +1 Is it still turned on by default in 2010? If so that isn’t a bug anymore, that is negligence.

Re: Blackberry having issues or just me

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Tavares
my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: Mike Tavares Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:15:44 + (UTC) To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" Subject: Blackberry having issues or just me Got several reports from my users saying that they are not receiving emails on the

Re: Blackberry having issues or just me

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Tavares
ere… Sprint.  No problems. Quick fix is usually to restart the “BB Synchronization service” on the BES. From: Mike Tavares [mailto:miketava...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Blackberry having issues or just me Got seve

Blackberry having issues or just me

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Tavares
Got several reports from my users saying that they are not receiving emails on their blackberries.  However they can send from them.  I have verified this on my blackberry as well.  Not seeing anything on my BES server that would indicate a problem multiple carriers (vz, at&t, t-mobile)

Re: Verizon Data Services down

2011-01-25 Thread Mike Tavares
http://www.inquisitr.com/96530/verizon-extended-blackberry-outage-due-to-system-update/ I have several users that are affected by this as well. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Brown" <2jbr...@gmail.com> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 11:42:23 PM

Re: Windows 95.

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Tavares
it is seems like yesterday that I was invited to the 95 (Chicago) beta. If I remember correctly the first 2 or 3 beta versions were shipped to us on Floppies, and then by the final they were shipping CD's to those of us that could afford cd rom drives. How times have changed. - Original

Re: BES Express

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Tavares
Exchange and Lotus Notes are the 2 supported platforms. - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 3:38 PM Subject: BES Express Anyone know if BES Express can work if you DON'T have an Exchange server? I was under the im

Re: Where's my disk space gone ?

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Tavares
Oliver, Did you check the size of the WINSXS folder (in the C:\windows\ directory). You may need to show hidden files and protected operating system files to see it. I know on all my 2008 boxes this is where the diskspace appears to dissapear into. - Original Message - From: "O

Re: How to block, but not block?!

2010-06-16 Thread Mike Tavares
behavioral problems. - Original Message - From: "Carl Houseman" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 1:14:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: How to block, but not block?! Quiz time!  There are seldom technological solutions to .

Re: How to block, but not block?!

2010-06-16 Thread Mike Tavares
then there is always the Camera in their cell phones as well. - Original Message - From: gro...@beachcomp.com To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:37:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: How to block, but not block?! Good stuff but I did

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-14 Thread Mike Tavares
I would make the AD its own VM. On the off chance that you need to do something with AD that requires a reboot you don't have to reboot everything (also makes life easier in the future) The one caveat to this is you want to set the priority so AD boots before Exchange (I assume hyper-v gives y

Re: ISA 2004 in a 2008 network

2010-06-14 Thread Mike Tavares
I have been running an ISA 2004 server running in a 2008 based domain with no issues. - Original Message - From: "Oliver Marshall" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:04 AM Subject: ISA 2004 in a 2008 network Does anyone know if ISA 2004 will work in a Windo

Re: Exchange TLS (ssl) cert ???

2009-07-29 Thread Mike Tavares
self signed cert, it is free. - Original Message - From: "Erik Goldoff" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:19 PM Subject: Exchange TLS (ssl) cert ??? I've got a law office client ( cheap ) that needs to have TLS setup for secure email with a european col

Re: iPhone and battery life

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Tavares
with the exception of the blackberry storms which make the iPhones battery life good. - Original Message - From: "Micheal Espinola Jr" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 6:50 PM Subject: Re: iPhone and battery life No doubt. And the BB is exceptional for that -

Re: Barracuda stuff?

2009-04-17 Thread Mike Tavares
So some where in Canada a system that is using the barracuda software is blocking you. It could be that barracuda as evaluated the emails you are sending and decided it didn't like them for whatever reason. If that is the case then following the link they provided and appealing the listing sho

Re: OT Texas Hold'em Money on BB's

2008-10-15 Thread Mike Tavares
As with any BB application, if you use the desktop software to do a back of the device (or at least the Texas hold'em app) you should be able to restore it in full. - Original Message - From: "Stefan Jafs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, October 15,

Re: Postini & RBL?

2008-08-29 Thread Mike Tavares
they use there own RBL to block balant spam (you can choose to enable this or not). IF you do, it gets blackholed. IF you don't then most of it ends up in the users quarantine. - Original Message - From: "Roger Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday,

Re: Perhaps a bit OT - mail bouncing

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Tavares
My first thoughts on this. 1. from the smtp server sending the emails can you do an NSLOOKUP (set type=mx) of company.com and see what it resolves to. 2. once you have the IP address can you TELNET to that ip address on port 25 (you should get a banner of some type). Almost willing to bet y

Re: Lotus Notes Help

2008-07-22 Thread Mike Tavares
any idea what version of notes the server is running? - Original Message - From: "Bob Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:58 AM Subject: Lotus Notes Help Good morning, A little background, this company had a outside firm doing all t