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Dale Carnegie said that one of the best ways to get people to like you is to compliment them. Spammers seem to have read the book because not a week goes by that I don’t see a spear phishing spam that tells me how amazing I am and how lucky I am to be partRead more

Here are a few interesting and useful tools and information that I found while surfing: Four very interesting administration tools from Microsoft, available here: Network Monitor, Baseline Security Analyzer, IPSec Diagnostic tool and Windows SysInternals Suite. A shmorgasbord of security tools, available here from SecTools: warning, many of these can be used in very badRead more

I get a _lot_ of email. Managing it effectively is very important to me. I pay particular attention to how partners and vendors help me manage the stream of email I receive from their marketing departments, even (in fact, especially) when it is opt-in (otherwise it’s just spam, right?…). The other day I received anRead more

Warning: Lots of gushing in this blog post, author goes out of his way to thank a lot of people. Lots to be thankful for on this day, and it starts with our customers, our readers, and our blog contributors. Thank you! To our customers: for staying with us and renewing year after year, inRead more

The security battle today has two main fronts: the software vendors, who create the tools to protect our systems and infrastructure against ever-evolving threats, and the end-users, who need to be educated to avoid common mistakes that expose them to unecessary risk. Someone seems to have forgotten the admins in this equation. It is quiteRead more