10 Things I Don't Like About My iPhone
I finally went and bought an iPhone. I had a 4GB iPod nano for a while, but was running out of space (German audio lessons take up a lot of room). I decided to wait until a 16GB iPod/iPhone was...
View ArticleSome more things the iPhone is missing
To continue my topic from yesterday about things that need improving for the iPhone, here are a few more missing features:No VideoIf it has a digital camera, why doesn't it have a video recorder? The...
View ArticleGreat iPhone Puzzle Apps For Free
If there is one thing I love to put on any PDA I've owned it's puzzle games. They're great for when you have a few moments of spare time (i.e. your spouse is shopping and you've been dragged along, or...
View ArticleThe Disgusting Fact About Spam
The one thing I love about GMail is how wonderfully it handles spam. Every couple of days I'll pay attention to the spam it has collected in the Spam folder. This could be anywhere between 10-20 spam...
View ArticleReview of Password Safe Programs for iPhone
(As always, this article assumes a non-jail-broke iPhone 3G)There are a number of password safe programs in the Apps store nowadays. Picking the right one involves a lot of different criteria....
View ArticleChanging the Solaris root shell to bash
Bourne shell may be okay, but I'm a big bash fan myself. So I prefer using doing an "exec bash" after logging in as root. This can be a bit of a pain after a while though, so it would be great to have...
View ArticleUsing PFX key/cert on an F5
Well it's been too long since I've had a post so I figured I'd better get working. In this one, I go over the topic of bringing a PFX formatted key and certificate into an F5 Local Traffic Manager...
View ArticleFireEye: An helpful product that needs to grow up
When I first heard of FireEye I thought this was an ideal product to help combat zero-day malware infections. It takes a snapshot of user downloads such as applications, PDFs, and other things that...
View ArticleTippingPoint IPS: Yes, we've reached the tipping point
TippingPoint was once considered one of the best network IPS. Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Network IPS of 2008 and 2009 put it in the the top right quadrant, meaning the product was full of features...
View ArticleFireEye Update: A class act
Companies live and die by the customer base. Too many times I've seen a company with a great product but poor customer support, and eventually the product will just fade away. (See yesterday's post...
View ArticleQRadar detecting ZeroAccess Trojan
Many of my co-workers have been witness to my recent love affair with QRadar. It's an easy to use, yet powerful SIEM that allows a security team to operate very efficiently. When I first started...
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Fun with Gingerbread
Merry Christmas to all! Work recently sponsored a gingerbread contest. I was immediately interested in building a Cisco Nexus or a Juniper SRX. I was a little disappointed to find out the kits...
View ArticlePackets Don't Lie
My nickname was given to me a while back, thepacketmaster. It was because I love using packet tracers to solve problems. I sometimes wonder if I'm unique in this sense or if other network/security...
View ArticleIPv6: When will it really happen?
I was looking through some old drafts in this blog, stuff I had never posted, and noticed one I had written about IPv6 in 2010. I had started to learn about the details of IPv6 in 2010. I know it's...
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Home Wireless Networks
A question I get asked often is how to setup multiple wireless access points in a house to get better wireless coverage. When your Internet provider sets up your connection, it makes sense to put your...
View ArticleDexter: New Point-Of-Sale Malware
Seculert has discovered a new piece of malware called Dexter which is designed to infect retail sales workstations and steal credit card information. How it operates:It scans the process list of an...
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Detecting ZeroAccess Trojan with QRadar
Here's a quick way to detect the ZeroAccess trojan with your SIEM. Look for any traffic that is originating from your internal network and going to the Internet, on destination ports 16461, 16464,...
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Renaming F5 objects (in version 11)
You may have need to rename one or more objects in an F5 load balancer. Unfortunately this cannot be accomplished through the GUI, but there is a way to do it on the F5 command line. You'll need a...
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