Log Aggregation & Management

The top question asked by customers and students is how to effectlvely manage Windows logs in an enterprise. Read on for a free (as in beer) solution to this problem!

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Writing Policies

Writing effective policy requires more than simply stating what employees are not permitted to do. This article tries to explain some good strategies for creating effective poliicies in your enterprise.

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Zone Transfer without the AXFR

Zone Transfers are the quick and easy way to figure out what’s what during a pen-test but these days they almost never work. This article explains how to get the same data without tripping the alarms!

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PCI/DSS Section 6

The PCI Data Security Standard has some interesting requirements regarding secure coding of applications, particularly web applications. What are your responsibilities? How can your organization satisfy the requirements for training your programmers? Read on!

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Keeping Cool

What’s the story with all of this talk of freezing memory chips and then extracting RAM after power off? Read on for more information!

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Magstripe Magic!

Have you ever wondered what exactly is on those magnetic stripes? This article includes some useful information on how the stripes are encoded, examples of how they can be read and, if you’re willing to make the effort, enough information to reconstruct a do-it-yourself card reader!

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Driving a Hitachi 4x20 LCD

Trying to drive a Hitachi based LCD for the first time through a PIC or similar processor? Look no further!

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The Dangers of Source Routing

Source routing has been around for a very long time. Even so, many network engineers fail to understand the potential dangers in allowing source routed packets to pass through internal routers.

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Networking Basics

Are you missing some of the basic fundamentals of how computers and networks work? This is true for many people who are transitioning into IT from other roles, especially in the audit disciplines.

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Poor Passwords - The Real Risk!

Think your password policy is good enough? Find out about the vulnerability that almost everybody has but almost nobody fixes!

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