Savannah W-ITS

Some recent events illustrate current, seemingly innocuous examples of personal data collection. You don’t know or can’t imagine this being a problem – but it could be.   Examples:

Any commercial web site (where a product is being sold and data about your ‘web visit’ is being collected and maintained.)
Facebook privacy & security policies and practices.
Google Maps [...]

VirtualBox Security Tools – testing or installing Live CD images as virtual machines
I noted that this seems to be a popular approach for VMWare images and decided to try a few tools out using VirtualBox.   As with any such ’security solution’ you should carefully evaluate the tools that you allow (or the OS builds that you [...]

Your mileage should vary, but for me this device was both a poor/bad investment and a trouble-shooting time hog. I picked this up at Office Depot for $20 (regular price ~$50.)  While relatively simple to configure (via a web interface) the device seems to have performance issues (i.e. both dropping established wireless connections as well [...]

Are you looking for monitoring resources and the latest monitoring plugins?  Did you write a useful plugin/tool that you are interested in sharing?  While using search engine queries can provide useful results here is a new resource that may decrease your hunt for Open Source solutions.  [I am guessing that commercial solutions may eventually be [...]

I was quite surprised when my post about the July 2009 cyber attacks seemed to attract a bit of attention.  The post contains general commentary and some basic suggestions for steps that you can take to reduce impacts from such outbreaks.
Avoiding a cyber attack is simply impossible (unless you unplug the wires…) – creating a [...]

We have seen a flurry of news reports regarding a recent (weekend of July 4th, 2009 into the following week) cyber attack.  It is reported that it appears that this was a large scale attack that targetted public Internet sites for the US and South Korea; there have been insinuations that North Korea or supporters [...]

I have great admiration and respect for Open Source solutions, but as indicated in other posts I tend to be a disruptive user.  I typically start any software exploration in user-land (as opposed to SA-land with my PSH – problem solving hat), so, As usual, I will attempt an easy install (without any reading…)

• I downloaded the binary Zenoss install package – the