In a comment on my previous post about SE Linux and worms/trojans [1] a user enquired about which methods of gaining local root are prevented by SE Linux. A local[...]
Paul Russell writes about his 3-yearly laptop replacement at IBM [1]. It probably makes some sense to replace laptops periodically for a large company, but if you are buying for[...]
Don Marti has written his own equivalent to Technorati based on links from blogs that he reads, and my blog comes in at #40 in the list (last place) [1].[...]
Bruce Schneier has just written about the Storm Worm [1] which has apparently been quietly 0wning some Windows machines for most of this year (see the Wikipedia page for more[...]
When running SE Linux you will notice that most applications are not permitted to run with an executable stack. One example of this is libsmpeg0 which is used by the[...]
I read the logs from my servers. The amount of time I spend reading log summaries is determined by how important the server is. On the machines that are most[...]
There is ongoing debate about the issue of security cameras, how many should there be, where should they be located, and who should be able to access the data. I[...]
There seems to be a recent trend towards home-schooling. The failures of the default school system in most countries are quite apparent and the violence alone is enough of a[...]
I am currently considering what to do regarding a Zope server that I have converted to Xen. To best manage the servers I want to split the Zope instances into[...]
Recently I was talking to an employee at Safeway (an Australian supermarket chain) about Linux etc. He seemed interested in attending a meeting of my local LUG (which incidentally happens[...]