If you were doing SMS based two factor you'd be right. We don't however.It's has an app on your phone that generates a new 6 digit code every 30 seconds. Each phone is unique, so the provider couldn't do anything to help the attacker. Even reinstalling the app generates a new instance of the app that needs to be registered with us.
Also in the above scenario, the thief still doesn't have the users password, so wouldn't get to the 2nd factor. User can call IT from another phone and we can lock down the account, and if phone still online, track, lock, or wipe it.
So it's similar to the many different SSO products on the market for corporate use, but made for personal use.
We implemented SSO at work earlier this year. Some of our apps are able to integrate directly into it (and it links back to Active Directory) like Google Apps and Salesforce. Other apps it just acts as a password manager and will paste in their login info for them once the user enters it once.
Having the same concerns about having all this accessible if you break one account, we made it harder to break into that one account. We enforce 2 factor authentication, so you need a mobile device linked to your account that sends a confirmation in. All mobile devices connecting to our systems have to have PIN's on them and wipe after 10 bad tries.
So for someone to break into a user account, even if they get the password, they still can't login online with it unless they physically also have the users phone, and have managed to unlock that as well. With the users password they could login to a workstation at the office, but they'd still get the 2FA prompt before they can get at e-mail or any other web based apps.
I got the 1511 ISO from or volume licensing site download. It's much nicer for us as we use PXE to install to clients. The old ISO wouldn't work for installing a clean install from PXE on a computer with Win 8 Pro licenses (in the BIOS).
The new one it installs and activates fine, grabbing that Win8 Pro key from the BIOS. So no need to do an in place upgrade first.
I'll keep using the 1511 ISO unless the block it somehow.
Almost always, but not always.
About 9 years ago I was on my motorcycle on a freeway. I was coming up to a split where you can exit onto another highway.
Traffic was coming to a stop on the first highway, and as my house was about middle distance between the two highways, I decided to switch to the other one.
So I did my lane change, and was happy approaching the split, at the posted 100kph for that ramp, when a car that was in the lane I had been in a moment earlier suddenly realized traffic was stopping in front of him.
He slammed on his brakes, locked up the wheels, and swerved into my lane to avoid the car in front of him.
I was going about 100Kph, he was likely down to 20kph. Having a transport beside me in the other exit lane, I grabbed the brakes so hard I almost got the back wheel off the ground but still hit the back of him. I went up over the bars, landed on his car, rolled off and onto the highway.
I got up and ran to the shoulder before I could get run over by someone else.
The driver came out to apologize, said he didn't see me. Then when the cops get there he changed his story and said I just hit the back of him. I pointed out the lockup streaks on the highway going from one lane into another and the cop agreed with me.
I took a bunch of pictures, which turned out to be very helpful as insurance also tried to automatically say it was my fault. I sent them the pics from the highway along with some drawings of what happened that I made, and they also agreed and went after his insurance.
Thankfully I had no major injures. I had been wearing my helmet, leather jacket, and gloves that day but only hkakis, not my riding pants. I had road rash on both legs but didn't go to the hospital. I had a sore ankle and shoulder for a few days but that was it.
When Android has the vast majority of the market, where do you think the majority of people "switching" to Apple are going to come from? The single digit % of users running Windows phone or Blackberry?
Yep, I've automated this so I have a PXE installer on our network that install Win8.1 Pro using the Microsoft key, then on first boot it installs all our apps, drivers, and retrieves the key from BIOS and activates with that. We end up with a consistant image state for all machines even across manufacturers. No more making an image for each model.
This is all necessary because if you just let it detect the BIOS key at install, and the BIOS key is for Win 8 Pro, but you're installing 8.1 Pro, it won't work.
This only works on Win8 and up, and only works if the computer does have a valid Pro license, which is all we ever buy.
I don't know if MS would give their blessing on this method or not, but the end result is a properly licensed method.
.Net 3.5 installs fine through add features on Win2012/Win8, but there is a big gotcha.
If your company uses WSUS, which most large ones do, it breaks it.
So at that point you do need to break out DISM, or point Windows to the install CD/image as a source.
I played so much Descent 1/2/3 back in the day. My first LAN parties were all descent. We took over the school computer lab in the evenings and played there too.
For Descent3, I participated in the Descent3 $50,000 contest, won a bunch of smaller prizes but not the big one (flew to San Jose from Canada).
I'd love another official entry in the series. The fan made ones are OK but don't quite feel right. I'll have to bring my old Sidewinder 3dpro or Precision pro out of mothballs.
Well I doubt my grandmother (Oma) would have fabricated this story in the late 1980's or early 1990's, well before it would have spread around the 'net.
I'll take her word for it and assume this sort of thing is common enough for variants of it to have happened or been made up elsewhere.
Several years back a new hotel opened in Niagara falls. Their phone number was 1 digit off my grand parents number. They started getting several calls a day, all hours of the day, looking to book rooms.
They called the hotel several times and asked them to change their number but they refused and told my grandparents they should change theirs. My grandparents had that number for over 30 years so they refused.
Eventually they got sick of being polite and telling people they had the wrong number, so they started "taking bookings".
The situation was then quickly resolved when the hotel started having people showing up expecting a room. Hotel changed it's number and life went on.
I know it sucked for the people who expected rooms, but they tried to be nice and polite for a few months.
We have a user here who got a new laptop last summer, it had a LED backlit LCD. Within 20 minutes she was calling saying it was making her feel sick/headache. We tried adjusting refresh rate, brightness, no help. Put a CFL backlit LED laptop in front of her and she was fine. Tried LED standalone monitor, it also bugged her though not as much.
So, we had to find a laptop that had a CFL backlit screen, wasn't junk,and met our other requirements (docking connector mostly). Ended up getting a previous year model Toshiba Tecra with a Core2Duo.All the rest of the laptops we bought had i5's in them by that point.
They say on their literature bags may be searched, but I've been walking around with my big vmworld 2011 backpack all week, never searched once.
To the original question, I am a network admin at a non-profit religious denomination, not really in "the industry". I registered online, worked on my cover story, but in the end I didn't need it. They didn't even ask for my business card when I picked up my badge, just drivers license.
We do Veeam backups of our virtual infrastructure nightly. Once a week, a copy of that is taken offsite.
Also, every night our Equallogic SAN's replicate with eachother. They are in three separate offices in North America. In the event one building burns down, is blown up by a nuke, or similar, we can fire up our entire virtual infrastructure in the failback location within a couple of hours (minutes really).
Since we only have 3-4 non-virtualized servers, and none of them store important data, we're pretty well protected I think.
I believe you are wrong there.
It says for their wholesale customers, they are allowed to bill based on connection speed, but not total monthly bandwidth usage.
This means a small ISP would pay for a 100Mbit link, or 2 Gbit link, etc... It is billed in 100Mbit increments.
ISP can use as much as they want, but they will only get that amount per second they paid for.
This makes sense to me, you pay for the size of the pipe you need, doesn't matter how much data you put through the pipe.
I have one. Wireless just shuts off randomly every day, and under heavy load.
Not all of them do this, but if you get one, there is no known fix. Does it both on stock firmware and DD-WRT.
Netgear forums are littered with reports of it.
I'm getting an Asus RT-N16 today to replace it.
I got a call from Bell the other day asking me to switch back to them. I said no. The guy asked why, and I said it was because Bell was an evil greedy company that didn't care about customers and I would never use one of their products ever again.
After about 10 seconds of dead air, I said goodbye:)
Bell is a horrid company. At work I switched all our cell phones off them to the slightly less evil Rogers, and our internet off them too (though our fiber connection does go through their network, couldn't avoid that, but at least they just get a fraction of the money, not all of it. Soon our phone lines will all be switched to VOIP too at work, no more Bell.
We condidered it last year, for about 800 machines. We didn't go with it because it needed multiple servers, and some of those had to be 32 bit servers. The SQL I believe it was, not totally sure but I think it only ran on a 32 bit sql server, which we don't have any of.
Went with Kaspersky, been working great.
I'm not sure you understood what I meant.
If Rogers is offering a streaming video service through their internet service, they have to count that towards your data cap just as they would for netflix.
They can't give their own service an unfair and artificial advantage like that. They certainly would love to, and thats what the whole net neutrality debate is about.
This came up when Bell first started throttling customers. One of the reasons the CRTC ruled with Bell initially was because they also throttled customers using Bell's own services.
I'm surprised to hear that part about your ISP's own offerings not being included in the cap.
I believe in Canada, that practice is illegal. If they are going to cap you they can't discriminate their traffic or a competitors.
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If you were doing SMS based two factor you'd be right. We don't however.It's has an app on your phone that generates a new 6 digit code every 30 seconds. Each phone is unique, so the provider couldn't do anything to help the attacker. Even reinstalling the app generates a new instance of the app that needs to be registered with us. Also in the above scenario, the thief still doesn't have the users password, so wouldn't get to the 2nd factor. User can call IT from another phone and we can lock down the account, and if phone still online, track, lock, or wipe it.
So it's similar to the many different SSO products on the market for corporate use, but made for personal use. We implemented SSO at work earlier this year. Some of our apps are able to integrate directly into it (and it links back to Active Directory) like Google Apps and Salesforce. Other apps it just acts as a password manager and will paste in their login info for them once the user enters it once. Having the same concerns about having all this accessible if you break one account, we made it harder to break into that one account. We enforce 2 factor authentication, so you need a mobile device linked to your account that sends a confirmation in. All mobile devices connecting to our systems have to have PIN's on them and wipe after 10 bad tries. So for someone to break into a user account, even if they get the password, they still can't login online with it unless they physically also have the users phone, and have managed to unlock that as well. With the users password they could login to a workstation at the office, but they'd still get the 2FA prompt before they can get at e-mail or any other web based apps.
Almost impossible like this for Windows 8: http://windows.microsoft.com/e... And this for Windows 10: http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca... It's come a long way since windows 7 and earlier.
Now we just need Junkyard wars to return and I can relive my youth!
I got the 1511 ISO from or volume licensing site download. It's much nicer for us as we use PXE to install to clients. The old ISO wouldn't work for installing a clean install from PXE on a computer with Win 8 Pro licenses (in the BIOS). The new one it installs and activates fine, grabbing that Win8 Pro key from the BIOS. So no need to do an in place upgrade first. I'll keep using the 1511 ISO unless the block it somehow.
Almost always, but not always. About 9 years ago I was on my motorcycle on a freeway. I was coming up to a split where you can exit onto another highway. Traffic was coming to a stop on the first highway, and as my house was about middle distance between the two highways, I decided to switch to the other one. So I did my lane change, and was happy approaching the split, at the posted 100kph for that ramp, when a car that was in the lane I had been in a moment earlier suddenly realized traffic was stopping in front of him. He slammed on his brakes, locked up the wheels, and swerved into my lane to avoid the car in front of him. I was going about 100Kph, he was likely down to 20kph. Having a transport beside me in the other exit lane, I grabbed the brakes so hard I almost got the back wheel off the ground but still hit the back of him. I went up over the bars, landed on his car, rolled off and onto the highway. I got up and ran to the shoulder before I could get run over by someone else. The driver came out to apologize, said he didn't see me. Then when the cops get there he changed his story and said I just hit the back of him. I pointed out the lockup streaks on the highway going from one lane into another and the cop agreed with me. I took a bunch of pictures, which turned out to be very helpful as insurance also tried to automatically say it was my fault. I sent them the pics from the highway along with some drawings of what happened that I made, and they also agreed and went after his insurance. Thankfully I had no major injures. I had been wearing my helmet, leather jacket, and gloves that day but only hkakis, not my riding pants. I had road rash on both legs but didn't go to the hospital. I had a sore ankle and shoulder for a few days but that was it.
When Android has the vast majority of the market, where do you think the majority of people "switching" to Apple are going to come from? The single digit % of users running Windows phone or Blackberry?
Yep, I've automated this so I have a PXE installer on our network that install Win8.1 Pro using the Microsoft key, then on first boot it installs all our apps, drivers, and retrieves the key from BIOS and activates with that. We end up with a consistant image state for all machines even across manufacturers. No more making an image for each model. This is all necessary because if you just let it detect the BIOS key at install, and the BIOS key is for Win 8 Pro, but you're installing 8.1 Pro, it won't work. This only works on Win8 and up, and only works if the computer does have a valid Pro license, which is all we ever buy. I don't know if MS would give their blessing on this method or not, but the end result is a properly licensed method.
.Net 3.5 installs fine through add features on Win2012/Win8, but there is a big gotcha. If your company uses WSUS, which most large ones do, it breaks it. So at that point you do need to break out DISM, or point Windows to the install CD/image as a source.
I played so much Descent 1/2/3 back in the day. My first LAN parties were all descent. We took over the school computer lab in the evenings and played there too. For Descent3, I participated in the Descent3 $50,000 contest, won a bunch of smaller prizes but not the big one (flew to San Jose from Canada). I'd love another official entry in the series. The fan made ones are OK but don't quite feel right. I'll have to bring my old Sidewinder 3dpro or Precision pro out of mothballs.
Well I doubt my grandmother (Oma) would have fabricated this story in the late 1980's or early 1990's, well before it would have spread around the 'net. I'll take her word for it and assume this sort of thing is common enough for variants of it to have happened or been made up elsewhere.
Several years back a new hotel opened in Niagara falls. Their phone number was 1 digit off my grand parents number. They started getting several calls a day, all hours of the day, looking to book rooms. They called the hotel several times and asked them to change their number but they refused and told my grandparents they should change theirs. My grandparents had that number for over 30 years so they refused. Eventually they got sick of being polite and telling people they had the wrong number, so they started "taking bookings". The situation was then quickly resolved when the hotel started having people showing up expecting a room. Hotel changed it's number and life went on. I know it sucked for the people who expected rooms, but they tried to be nice and polite for a few months.
We have a user here who got a new laptop last summer, it had a LED backlit LCD. Within 20 minutes she was calling saying it was making her feel sick/headache. We tried adjusting refresh rate, brightness, no help. Put a CFL backlit LED laptop in front of her and she was fine. Tried LED standalone monitor, it also bugged her though not as much. So, we had to find a laptop that had a CFL backlit screen, wasn't junk,and met our other requirements (docking connector mostly). Ended up getting a previous year model Toshiba Tecra with a Core2Duo.All the rest of the laptops we bought had i5's in them by that point.
Oh man, I'd be happy paying $700/GB at this point. A user of ours recently racked up $2000 in peru using less than 75MB.
Google has had a built in SIP client since gingerbread, no need for a sip client (though some may offer more features than the plain google one)
Regarding 19.2.3....Hmm, so I can't ride my motorcycle into an event and up the stairs to my seat, but I apparently can do that in my car?
Microsoft is there this year, large booth, opening night keynote. NEXT year they won't be there, at least not in such a large way.
They say on their literature bags may be searched, but I've been walking around with my big vmworld 2011 backpack all week, never searched once. To the original question, I am a network admin at a non-profit religious denomination, not really in "the industry". I registered online, worked on my cover story, but in the end I didn't need it. They didn't even ask for my business card when I picked up my badge, just drivers license.
We do Veeam backups of our virtual infrastructure nightly. Once a week, a copy of that is taken offsite. Also, every night our Equallogic SAN's replicate with eachother. They are in three separate offices in North America. In the event one building burns down, is blown up by a nuke, or similar, we can fire up our entire virtual infrastructure in the failback location within a couple of hours (minutes really). Since we only have 3-4 non-virtualized servers, and none of them store important data, we're pretty well protected I think.
I believe you are wrong there. It says for their wholesale customers, they are allowed to bill based on connection speed, but not total monthly bandwidth usage. This means a small ISP would pay for a 100Mbit link, or 2 Gbit link, etc... It is billed in 100Mbit increments. ISP can use as much as they want, but they will only get that amount per second they paid for. This makes sense to me, you pay for the size of the pipe you need, doesn't matter how much data you put through the pipe.
I have one. Wireless just shuts off randomly every day, and under heavy load. Not all of them do this, but if you get one, there is no known fix. Does it both on stock firmware and DD-WRT. Netgear forums are littered with reports of it. I'm getting an Asus RT-N16 today to replace it.
I got a call from Bell the other day asking me to switch back to them. I said no. The guy asked why, and I said it was because Bell was an evil greedy company that didn't care about customers and I would never use one of their products ever again. After about 10 seconds of dead air, I said goodbye :)
Bell is a horrid company. At work I switched all our cell phones off them to the slightly less evil Rogers, and our internet off them too (though our fiber connection does go through their network, couldn't avoid that, but at least they just get a fraction of the money, not all of it. Soon our phone lines will all be switched to VOIP too at work, no more Bell.
We condidered it last year, for about 800 machines. We didn't go with it because it needed multiple servers, and some of those had to be 32 bit servers. The SQL I believe it was, not totally sure but I think it only ran on a 32 bit sql server, which we don't have any of. Went with Kaspersky, been working great.
I'm not sure you understood what I meant. If Rogers is offering a streaming video service through their internet service, they have to count that towards your data cap just as they would for netflix. They can't give their own service an unfair and artificial advantage like that. They certainly would love to, and thats what the whole net neutrality debate is about. This came up when Bell first started throttling customers. One of the reasons the CRTC ruled with Bell initially was because they also throttled customers using Bell's own services.
I'm surprised to hear that part about your ISP's own offerings not being included in the cap. I believe in Canada, that practice is illegal. If they are going to cap you they can't discriminate their traffic or a competitors.