Tim Higgins
Last week’s Blackhat DC Briefings included a presentation by Errata Security on “Data Seepage”, most notably of the wireless kind. “Seepage” typically comes from chatty networking programs that broadcast information that can be used to launch exploits.
A slideshow of Errata’s presentation and a copy of their program, including source code and Windows exe file is available here.
Manufacturers continue to pump out more draft 802.11n products based on the current Draft 1.0 spec. They do this despite ...
In his CES keynote, Bill Gates introduced the Microsoft Home Server, but didn't provide many details. Thankfully, George Ou is also at CES and did a good drilldown with the Microsofties and spills some of the beans behind what makes the product tick.
The short story is that it is based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and has a "rich" admin GUI delivered to a Windows desktop and a not-so-fancy one for the riff-raff who choose to run another OS. Windows Server 2003 also powers some of Iomega's StorCenter Pro series NASes and they ain't cheap. And when Jim Buzbee looked at the StorCenter Pro NAS 200d/320GB with REV built-in, he found that some admin functions required dropping into Windows Remote Desktop.
I’ve been meaning to review backup software, but never seem to get around to it. So I’m turning to you ...
