Category: Physical Security Infrastructure
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Quick Review – ASIS Mobile Show App
Mobile devices provide value at trade shows. Having the information available on the show floor can be a great tool to improve your use of precious time on the floor. Unfortunately, like anything else on your mobile device, it introduces another potential place to be attacked. And like most mobile apps, it’s actually made by…
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Equal Expectations for Equal (Non-Person) Entities
I don’t hate robots. I think that any new technology that tries to show up today has to be built with some by this time fairly obvious cyber defenses. This means, first, that the vendor has to get it that we might care. We the customers have a right to have an expectation of thorough…
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Rescue an XP laptop: load Linux today
It’s mid-2016. XP has been end-of-life for over a year or something. What’s that mean? It means there’s approximately a 100% chance that any given XP system is exploitable. It definitely means the system has exited the vendor’s maintenance window. Either way there are few if any reasons to justify use of XP from a…
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D/R 301: Put the Cat up on blocks behind the building
After your enterprise has grown up enough to really need electricity all the time, uninterruptable power becomes a necessity. In the 70’s if you drove through Waltham Massachusetts on Route 128 you could point out the large enterprises. They all had a Cat diesel engine mounted on cinder blocks behind the building, set up to…
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Shorter than a Starbucks Latte Order
We encountered a security video camera failure recently. Check your computer, this post really is being written in 2011. They parked me at an empty table with a test network and a sample of the failing device. Not knowing how to connect to it, a small bit of network investigation was in order. NMAP, the…