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		<title>Are the clouds gone yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Microsoft ( and others ) is intent on validating my cynical view of clouds. The latest Microsoft outage ( last night and this morning again ) was caused by what the company vaguely called a “DNS issue” and affected not just Office 365 but also the consumer services Hotmail and SkyDrive. The [...]
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		<title>CA&#8217;s hacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it really has been a bad week for Certificate Authorities. First DigiNotar gets cracked by a seemingly insistent CA cracker called ComodoHacker; now GlobalSign has stopped processing certificate requests due to possible compromise by the same cracker. It all started in March this year with the Comodo CA breach. Next was StartCom the Israeli [...]
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		<title>The Cloud, Security and IT skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing as everyone is writing about Cloud Computing lately, I thought I&#8217;d rehash some of my concerns about this &#8216;new&#8217;  technology. New in parenthesis because the idea is actually quite old, coming from the time-sharing Unix systems of the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s. Cloud obviously takes this to a new level ( supposedly with non-stop availability [...]
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s PSN hacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have gauged from other posts, Sony has never been a favourite of mine. Their recent activity in suing George Hotz for hacking the Playstation  3 ( after they removed the OtherOS function ) means I’m even less enamoured with them. But the final nail may have just been struck: the Playstation Network [...]
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		<title>The BalanceNG Software Load Balancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing as Nic brought up the subject of LBs, I thought I would chime in with the BalanceNG product which is not currently certified for Exchange or any other MS products. However seeing as it&#8217;s probably one of the best LBs I&#8217;ve ever used ( and that includes Alteon and Zeus ZXTM ), it merits [...]
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		<title>Win 7 SP1 out soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 Service Pack 1 should be available soon and won&#8217;t have much new functionality, but will have the usual hot fixes and patches. 3 items that will make an appearance are: Advanced Vector Extensions ( AVX ) which will be available in forthcoming processors RemoteFX &#8211; an extension to RDP Dynamic Memory &#8211; intelligent [...]
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		<title>Security Policies in the organisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most organisations of a reasonable size, will today have at least some policies which integrate with HR to govern Internet and computer use within the company. However, the ability of these limited documents ( and sometimes procedures ) to protect the company is often minimal. With the extent to which malicious vectors are able to [...]
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		<title>New Microsoft Windows LNK exploit the most dangerous of all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new malicious attack has been spreading through the internet in the last few weeks, initially using USB memory sticks to propagate. Called, the LNK vulnerability, the attack uses specially crafted shortcut (.lnk) files, which trick Windows into running code of an attacker&#8217;s choosing. Any Windows application that tries to display the shortcut&#8217;s icon—including Explorer—will [...]
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		<title>Security, the employee and business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<title>Windows 7 SP1 due in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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