Whitelist vs blacklist

Whitelist vs blacklist

I’m not a big fan of the whitelist and blacklist terminology. The language is potentially harmful, but besides the racial implications, it’s also unclear. In this blog post, I’ll go over the traditional meaning of whitelist vs blacklist, and you’ll see why I say the alternative, dare I say progressive, terminology is also much more clear.

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Should you buy an IBM PS/2?

Should you buy an IBM PS/2?

At the dawn of October 1988, the IBM PS/2 was looking like a success. As it closed out its third quarter of 1988, IBM announced the PS/2 had sold 3 million units in its first year and a half on the market. The pace of 2 million units a year made it one of the best-selling machines in the world at the time. But it ultimately proved to be IBM’s downfall in the PC market. So it’s historically significant, however you feel about IBM. But should you buy an IBM PS/2? Is an IBM PS/2 a good retro computer?

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Force a Nessus agent scan on demand

Force a Nessus agent scan on demand

Tenable’s Nessus agent has a fair bit of underappreciated power. The ability to force a Nessus agent scan on demand is a feature I hear people ask for a lot, without knowing the capability already exists. There’s a bit of setup that needs to happen in the cloud, but once you do that, a sysadmin can perform scan on demand from the host.

You can force a Tenable Nessus Agent scan on demand by dropping a file into a user-specified location, or running the nessuscli command. Read more