After years of feeling overworked and underpaid, the temptation to launch a parting rant at the boss on your last day before starting a new job can be overwhelming. Thanks to email, the subject of one’s ire is now just the push of a button away – but the downside, as Paul Cosford discovered yesterday, [...]
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Sometimes, revenge is bitter. The reason for this is that sometimes you get your revenge and then you get, well, caught. Please consider the feelings of Walter Powell, a 52-year-old IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems. Actually, he became a former IT manager there. Which, perhaps stimulated a desire for a little revenge. I [...]
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I am clearly too paranoid to be considered normal, but lets imagine a scenario where one of your users decides to capture domain administrators password. How would your network and your staff deal with this? Would you detect this? would it be detected in time? How confident are you that you would find out about [...]
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If you’re a blogger or webmaster interested in link trading please let me know. I am interested in sites with similar topics, IT , security , white hat hacking related.
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Excellent blog for windows admins, many free tools and nice write ups on variety of tasks – www.4sysops.com
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This has been my favorite for a very long time, stop by and read some of Adrian’s articles. http://www.irongeek.com/
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/the_enemy_withi.html;jsessionid=H3SGNLAV5BDPYQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN Cliff notes: 1) employee is leaving the company, is instructed to fill out paperwork to receive his last paycheck and fails to do so 2) after he realizes the last paycheck will not be coming to him, he gains access and trashes payroll records While the cause for being disgruntled is clear, imagine the [...]
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/fannie_mae_sabotage_averted/ Cliff Notes: 1) Rajendrasinh Babubahai Makwana is terminated, or notified of being terminated that day but left alone with computer access. 2) his system access is not restricted until hours after. 3) Makwana immediately writes a script, does his best to hide it within another script and takes off 4) only by chance was his [...]
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