IM Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Mon, 25 May 2020 17:00:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 The ghost in the network https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-ghost-in-the-network/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ghost-in-the-network https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-ghost-in-the-network/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:00:19 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6954 My logging system died rather abruptly one week. It started with the Active Directory account some of our servers use locking. I got the account unlocked–someone else has those rights–and the system came back to life for a while, but

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-ghost-in-the-network/feed/ 1 6954 A war story in progress https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-war-story-in-progress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-war-story-in-progress Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:37:14 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6714 It was a long day at work yesterday. Some days things don’t go as planned, because something blows up, and that was the case yesterday. I’m sure I’ll write it up someday. Right now I fear it’s still in the

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]]> 6714 In defense of telework https://dfarq.homeip.net/in-defense-of-telework/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-defense-of-telework https://dfarq.homeip.net/in-defense-of-telework/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:00:46 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6394 I work from home one day a week. Most of my coworkers do as well. So I was interested when I read about Yahoo! doing! away! with! telecommuting! (with apologies to The Register. I couldn’t resist.) When I got this

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/in-defense-of-telework/feed/ 7 6394 We can’t give hackers anything else to work with https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2 https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:13:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137 Thanks to David Huff for pointing this link out to me (the good Dr. Keyboard also passed it along). Steve Gibson was hacked last month, and he wasn't very happy about it. So he set out to learn everything he could about l337 h4x0rs (elite hacker wannabes--script kiddies). What he found out bothers me a lot.

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