Here's your public service announcement: Microsoft will be dropping extended support to Windows XP and Office 2003 April 8th, 2014. April 8th, 2014 will be the last Patch Tuesday for both of those products. After that date, there will be "no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates." … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012: Installing Active Directory Users and Computers and Group Policy Management Console
Managing Active Directory and Group Policy can be a little obscure due to the prerequisite of installing the Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7 and 8. In Server 2012, there is no separate install of the RSAT tools, you just have to know where to look. Fortunately, it proves consistent by being part of the Add/Remove Roles and Features part of the Windows Server … [Read more...]
Compromise of cPanel Support server leads to spread of Linux SSHd rootkit
A rootkit has been infecting a number of Linux servers through the month of February. An early trend indicated servers running RedHat/CentOS and CloudLinux as well as cPanel could be vulnerable to whatever exploit was being leveraged to access the servers. One of the tell-tale signs was the detection of /lib/libkeyutils.so.1.9 or /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9. The rootkit was … [Read more...]
In the wild exploit or Apple forces Oracle’s hand to release Java 7u13 early
I am going to need to start drinking coffee in order to deal with the issues Java is throwing. Of course, Java has been in the news recently since a vulnerability disclosed last August gained attention of the media and was finally (partially) patched with version Java 7u11. Following that, there are two separate issues; one on the Mac OS X side and one on the Windows side. The … [Read more...]
Windows 8: How to change your color scheme, lock screen image, Start Screen background, and desktop wallpaper
Windows 8 has a few more options for customization over Windows 7 but finding where to make those changes can be a little confusing. Here's a guide to changing your color scheme, your lock screen, the Start Screen background style, and your desktop's wallpaper. … [Read more...]