Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Security
Mac Users, Stop Exposing Yourself to other Hotel Guests
Posted by on March 3, 2011
If you use an Apple Mac (like I do), then maybe you’re happy not to have to be too bothered about all those virii, malware, worms and hackers attacks so don’t bother spending too long on your personal IT security like you did in the Windows days. However, please think about this – I’m currently [...]
VMWare Vulnerability during VMotion.. is it really?
Posted by on February 27, 2008
As the Hoff posts here and on VMTN here. the proposed vulnerability that you can manipulate and possibly compromise a VM during a VMotion process isn’t exactly major, it’s clever.. but – like anything if you don’t follow the best-practice recommendations then you expose yourself to these risks… same reason they recommend you lock [...]
Problems Restoring a non-SysPrep Vista Image Using DiskPart & ImageX
Posted by on February 3, 2008
Goal: keep a single .WIM file, Multiple instances of the same build in the .WIM file Build001 non-sysprep’d version for maintenence with all latest patches and corp apps Build002 sysprep but no domain for home workers/3rd party Build003 sysprep + domain joining and scripted OOBE for corp machines Build004…etc. tweaks to the sysprep – [...]
When Web 2.0 Goes Bad…
Posted by on February 1, 2008
Interesting article here and here on “side-jacking”; discussing people snooping session ID’s from URL strings to possibly bypass SSL security which is normally only applied at logon and then content typically reverts to non-SSL. I’ve seen similar issues several times at airport or public Internet “Kiosks” and have accidentally walked into people’s airline reservations, [...]
Where There’s Blame, There’s a ….
Posted by on January 24, 2008
Argh, I hate this kind of thing .. give us £5.99 and we’ll send you some PDFs to allow you to claim compensation from the govt. for identity fraud arising from the loss of confidential data, if you read around a little bit I doubt they’ll be paying much out unless something serious really [...]
