Battles With Boredom

Medifast Progress, Below 170, Less Than 5# Away!

Weighed myself a couple of days ago, and I was 170#. Now I’m wearing size 32 pants for the first time in over a decade, if not two. Yowza!

Question for InfoSec Types: Is DHCP a Security Risk?

We recently had an IT audit at one of my clients’ locations. One of the issues raised by the auditor was that our DHCP server was a security risk because it would allow anyone to plug in to the LAN, get an IP address, and start browsing or scanning the network for vulnerabilities.  Continue reading Question for InfoSec Types: Is DHCP a Security Risk?…

WordPress 2.6.1 Upgrate

I just ugpraded to WordPress 2.6.1, following my usual procedure (backup, download, extract over existing blog). I got some errors when I clicked to update the database:

WordPress database error: [Duplicate key name 'comment_approved']
ALTER TABLE nikolaidis_wp_comments ADD KEY comment_approved (comment_approved)

WordPress database error: [Duplicate key name 'type_status_date']
ALTER TABLE nikolaidis_wp_posts ADD KEY type_status_date (post_type,post_status,post_date,ID)
Upgrade Complete

Your WordPress database has been successfully upgraded!

Given the last line, I’m inclined to think that these database upgrades may have been done in the 2.6 upgrade I did a while back.

At least, that’s my hope…

SANSFire 2008, Audit 507, Day 6 – Unix

Day 6, auditing Unix. By this time, most of the class was pretty wiped. With a few exceptions, (myself included) the bulk of the class had little or no Unix experience, so having to do stuff on the Unix command line was… well, eye-opening. Continue reading SANSFire 2008, Audit 507, Day 6 – Unix…

Apology to the Woman I Offended – Rescinded

In this week’s episode of the podcast, I made a comment which offended one of our listeners. She emailed us anonymously and stated she would be unsubscribing from our podcast.

After further consideration over the weekend, I decided that I was wrong, not in my initial comments to which she chose to be so offended by, but in the rendering of my apology. Continue reading Apology to the Woman I Offended – Rescinded…