Archive for March, 2006:
Book: Time Management for Systems Administrators
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The key message of this book is that appropriate planning and prioritisation is the key to managing time effectively.
Limoncelli offers a system called ‘The Cycle’ which is simple to implement straight away and tune to your workplace and methods. Small changes to your daily plan will result in more time to finish [...]
Vulnerabilities in Desktop OSes
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A close colleague of mine forwarded me an article (in jest – I am the departmental Apple advocate) citing information that a defacement attempt on a website served by a Mac Mini running OS X was successful after around thirty minutes.
Today, his Operating System of Choice should have been patched twice. Once because a [...]
Open DNS servers to go the way of the open mail relay.
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Paul Estes writes to Nanog recently,
We have recently noticed a deluge of DNS requests for “ANYANY” records of x.p.ctrc.cc. The requests are coming from thousands of sources, mostly our own customers. [...] It would appear that ctrc.cc was the victim of some DNS hijacking. Whatever malware is attempting to lookup this name, however, is [...]