Asset Inventory: Do you have yours?

by | Feb 2, 2015 | Asset Management

The year is hardly a month old and we have people racing around as if their hair is on fire, demanding to know if the GLibc vulnerability CVE-2015-0235 (aka GHOST) [1] affects them. It’s a reasonable certainty that this won’t be the only time this year someone will be...

HP Pavilion Mini and Stream Mini shrink the desktop PC

by | Jan 6, 2015 | CES, Computers

LAS VEGAS — You might think it’s a little last-minute to be coming out with a Mac mini clone, but HP thinks it’s better late than never. At CES 2015, the PC maker unveiled the Pavilion Mini and Stream Mini PCs, which shrink the desktop computer down to the...

To wash it all away

by | Jan 6, 2015 | Computers, Web

Describing why the Web is horrible is like describing why it’s horrible to drown in an ocean  composed of pufferfish that are pregnant with tiny Freddy Kruegers—each detail is horrendous in  isolation, but the aggregate sum is delightfully arranged into a hate flower...

An Argument for Moving Your SSH Port off 22

by | Jan 5, 2015 | Computers, Security

Whether or not one should move their SSH off port 22 is a hot discussion topic in security circles. The prevailing (and correct) belief is that changing the SSH port is a security by obscurity measure, because any attacker worth their weight in salt can just run a...