Don’t patch your workstations last

Last week, I heard a webcast in which the presenter repeated some advice from 2004: Patch things like your financial systems first, and your workstations last.

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Disabling WPS by upgrading to DD-WRT

Tom Gatermann told me he succeeded in disabling WPS by upgrading his Linksys router–I didn’t ask what model and probably shouldn’t post that anyway–with DD-WRT.

Explicitly disabling WPS in DD-WRT is unnecessary because DD-WRT doesn’t implement WPS at all–which is a good thing. There’s no setting to look for, it’s just automatic.

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