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Job hunting on your own vs. using a recruiter

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:00:02 +0000

A former coworker contacted me last week. He’d been employed in the same place for the last 16 or 17 years and he couldn’t remember how to look for a job. Who better to ask than a guy who’s changed jobs

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Worried about the wrong things? It’s always the wrong thing.

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 06 May 2015 11:00:50 +0000

Guy Wright’s piece titled Internet Security: We were worried about the wrong things is a bit old but it’s an important point. Security is a moving target. It’s always a moving target. I disagree, however, with the assertion that SSL (and its

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Why the Target data breach news keeps getting worse, and what you need to do

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:00:35 +0000

As you probably know, last year some still-unknown criminals stole a whole bunch of credit and debit card data from Target. And the story keeps changing. First there weren’t any PINs. Then they got the PINs, but no personally identifiable

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CISSP vs. CASP vs. CEH

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:16:39 +0000

One of my coworkers invited me to watch a webinar with him today that promised to compare CompTIA’s new high-end certification with the CISSP. I was skeptical at first, especially when I heard it was an 80-question, 150-minute test. But

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And speaking of SSDs, here’s how Oracle performs on an SSD

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:25:48 +0000

Andy Black is a former colleague and an Oracle DBA. Several times in the last few years, I ran into problems where I wished he wasn’t a former colleague, because my team got into some jams that I was pretty

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How to start over with MySQL in Debian

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:31:48 +0000

I got my new 64-bit web server up and running today. Now the main task that remains is to get my data moved over to it. I talked myself into going with an Apache setup, since one program I want

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A cloud computing-related Security+ question

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:10:04 +0000

Someone tossed a Security+ study question my way this week. This is an example of Security+ trying to be CISSP Lite, but it’s still a valid question–probably for either test, and for SSCP and CISM too. A small not-for-profit organization

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