Tag: security

Practice Technology

The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date April 23, 2011

In short, if your systems failed in the Amazon cloud this week, it wasn’t Amazon’s fault. You either deemed an outage of this nature an acceptable risk or you failed to design for Amazon’s cloud computing model.

via The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment – O’Reilly Broadcast.

Tags foundation, performance, security

General

Oops, e-mail security?

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date July 30, 2009

In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor, McAfee, has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message.

via Oops, e-mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names – data leaks, data loss, Data Loss Prevention, e-mail – Computerworld.

Tags security

System Software Notes Unix Notes Web Serving

Making ipfw make them go away

Post author By Chris Janton
Post date May 27, 2008

sudo ipfw add deny src-ip 123.45.67.89, 127.0.0.1/8

That should do the trick.

Tags firewall, MacOSXw, security