STIG Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 15 Apr 2017 16:36:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 How to patch less https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-patch-less/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-patch-less https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-patch-less/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:00:06 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=7103 One of my former supervisors now works for a security vendor. He told me the other day that someone asked him, “Does your company have anything so I don’t have to patch anymore?” The answer, of course, is that there’s

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-patch-less/feed/ 2 7103 How to get started in regulatory compliance https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-get-started-in-regulatory-compliance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-get-started-in-regulatory-compliance Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:00:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6933 I had a search query about getting started in regulatory compliance, which I’ve written about before, but more from an organizational perspective. That won’t help you much from a career perspective. I think most any CISSP will answer that question

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]]> 6933 Macintosh malware continues to evolve https://dfarq.homeip.net/macintosh-malware-continues-to-evolve/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=macintosh-malware-continues-to-evolve Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:19:48 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5261 Security experts have long warned that [Apple’s] delay in delivering Java patches on Mac OS could be used by malware writers to their advantage, and the new Flashback.K malware confirms that they were right. — PC World magazine Last week

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]]> 5261 How to secure a computer like a spook https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-secure-a-computer-like-a-spook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-secure-a-computer-like-a-spook Sat, 21 May 2011 01:30:22 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3456 A link to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) guidance on hardening operating systems has been floating around various blogs today. But the NSA’s guidance on configuring Windows 7 and other recent operating systems is, to put it mildly, a bit

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