Articles Written by:    STEVE BLASS     

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Protect your Cisco router against IOS rootkit software

Data leak protection is more than keeping data under control. Listen now! Edison analysts put the management software of an HP EVA system through a series of typical day-to-day storage management tasks. The same tasks were also evaluated on similar ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  26 May 2008
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Freeware lets you make Windows screen-cast movies

OpenSolaris available for download; Top 10 network venture deals from Q1. Listen now! How open-source SugarCRM is competing with the big boys. Listen now! Discover how Wait-Time Analysis, a new approach to application and database performance ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  6 May 2008

Getting baseline records established with Tripwire 7

Bell Labs spin-off; NAC group expands its scope. Listen now! Extending configuration management into the virtual world. Listen now! The movement towards laptop computers has fueled an unprecedented number of data breaches. For IT and Information ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  28 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

An answer for wireless connection woes

We’re trying to connect a Pentium III computer running Windows 2000 to a wireless network using a USB wireless network adapter. The Linksys wireless router is set up to use WEP security and the USB adapter connection manager shows that we have a ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  9 Apr 2008

Double check your system clocks for daylight-saving time

CA adds life to BSM. Listen now! Cisco joins Windows Server 2008 train; Blogger says iPhone SDK may be delayed. Listen now! For 2005, the Computer Security Institute (CSI) reported that the top three types of security violations as measured in ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  11 Mar 2008

Getting to know Google Android

I’ve been hearing about the Google Android platform for mobile phones and I’d like to know more about how and where to get a phone that uses Android. Also, I’d like information about how to explore developing applications that can talk to our services ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  19 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Qualcomm

Choosing a rootkit scanner

We’re worried that one or more of our PCs are infected with malware, perhaps rootkits. We have scanned and cleaned with the latest antivirus definitions, and the machines are still running slow and behaving strangely. What kinds of rootkit scanners are ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  4 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Checking to see if SMTP server is legitimate for a domain

Is there a mechanism in place to authenticate an SMTP server as an authorized or legitimate sender of e-mail for a domain? Two mechanisms used to check if a mail-sending machine is legitimate for a domain are Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Sender-ID. ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  31 Jan 2008

Building presentations for any standard browser

We built some multimedia presentations with Microsoft Producer after reading your column about it in August and are now looking for a similar presentation builder that will publish files that can be viewed with browsers other than Internet Explorer. ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  7 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Preventing SSH break-ins

If possible, restrict SSH logins to specific user/host combinations. If you must leave an SSH login service open to the world then move the service to a nonstandard port. That won’t cure anything but it may slow the attackers down. The Internet Storm ...

From STEVE BLASS, NetworkWorld,  24 Oct 2007

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