Why Small and Medium Enterprises don’t use 802.1x

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

With JJ blogging about 802.1x, I thought it would be timely to talk about why I think small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) do not and probably never will deploy 802.1x for wired networks. I make a point of meeting with customers whenever I can. Amongst the small and medium ...

Researchers uncover undetectable chip hack

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorised access to computer systems, but now there's another way to break in: hack the microprocessor. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated how they altered a computer chip to grant attackers back-door access to ...

Quarterly VoIP Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

While most VoIP-related vulnerabilities are posted to the VOIPSA mailing list or blog, I thought it might be useful to have a informal quarterly summary of sorts among VoIP devices per searches from NIST.  I hope folks find it helpful, and of course post comments if I’ve overlooked anything from ...

Two Overclocked 9800 GTX Cards

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

By our count, Nvidia and its add-in board partners offer no less than five designs based around the company's G92 GPU: the 8800 GS, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512MB, 9800 GX2, and 9800 GTX—and that's not even counting memory variants. That's a lot of seemingly different products based on the ...

Dealing With Hard Drive Problems

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

It happens to all of us: You turn on your system and see the stomach-churning "disk not found" error. It's really not surprising considering hard drives fail--more often than you might think. You don't believe me, I know, so look at Study: Hard Drive Failure Rates Much Higher Than Makers Estimate. Some ...