Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure book series? They were certainly one of my favorites growing up. Many years later, I am pleasantly surprised to find Palo Alto Networks has a new one published called Data Center of Doom. The book reads through a network security architect working for an early-stage pharmaceutical company. As Choose Your Own Adventure books do, you get an … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
The Pirate Bay AFK Documentary
Apparently, it's the time for documentaries on file sharing services... The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard is a documentary on the filesharing site, The Pirate Bay which worked with torrents. The movie is to be released for download and a release date will be announced this month. The documentary should give an inside look at the trial that prosecuted the administrators of … [Read more...]
Downloaded – a documentary that looks back to Napster
The VH1 Rock Docs series is getting a documentary on the rise and fall of Napster. It is directed by Alex Winter and premieres this Spring with no definite air date yet. The new film, which premieres on VH1 later this spring, chronicles the way that Napster “changed everything,” from the way we get our music, to record labels, to the way that artists and fans interact. It might … [Read more...]
Massaging data to have usable information and save a few keystrokes
I needed to create and populate a security group in active directory so I could limit a group policy to only the relevant users. Those relevant users each had a folder under the server share with the folder name being their username. Given that there were several dozen users already in the directory, I was hoping to be able to get that data in the format I needed so I could do … [Read more...]
First Patch Tuesday of 2013 brings updates from Microsoft, Adobe, and Mozilla
Now with Adobe onboard to push updates the second Tuesday of the month, Patch Tuesdays have become even more fun. Microsoft deployed seven security bulletins while Adobe released updates yesterday to Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Adobe AIR. The Adobe Acrobat and Reader updates released included support for versions 9, 10, and 11. On top of that, Mozilla released … [Read more...]