http://www.jeffbolden.net Ramblings from a IT Professional and NetSec Geek Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:01:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jeffboldennet/~3/-mDnOlJcMtU/ http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/10/30/taking-the-plunge/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:56:37 +0000 Jeff http://www.jeffbolden.net/?p=109 Just wanted to put in a quick plug for my current endeavor. BoldTech Solutions is a small Technology Consulting and Managed Services practice serving the needs of the SMB market in the Portland/Vancouver area. We provide innovative solutions to your small business IT problems and help you keep your focus on your business, not your [...] http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/10/30/taking-the-plunge/feed/ 0 http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/10/30/taking-the-plunge/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jeffboldennet/~3/5nHJe3nxHMM/ http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-av-out-of-beta-suprisingly-great/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:21:46 +0000 Jeff http://www.jeffbolden.net/?p=98 For those of you not aware, Microsoft has been quitely testing the successor to their discontinued OneCare AntiVirus product, named Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems that it is out of beta as of today and is available for free download. I've actually been running this as a beta on several of my machines here at the [...] http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-av-out-of-beta-suprisingly-great/feed/ 0 http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-av-out-of-beta-suprisingly-great/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jeffboldennet/~3/kgG9zC6XQ7A/ http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/29/metasploit-3-3-stable-almost-ready-now-with-screenshotty-goodness/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:38:19 +0000 Jeff http://www.jeffbolden.net/?p=95 Every Pen Tester's favorite platform Metasploit is coming up on v3.3 stable, and there are some really cool new features added to the pentester toolkit. One of the interesting new exploits added is the currently unpatched SMB2 flaw in Vista and Windows Server 2008. Disabling the protocol is the only way to mitigate that particular [...] http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/29/metasploit-3-3-stable-almost-ready-now-with-screenshotty-goodness/feed/ 0 http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/29/metasploit-3-3-stable-almost-ready-now-with-screenshotty-goodness/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jeffboldennet/~3/ryDCYm6f3wk/ http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/23/a-stick-figure-guide-to-aes-encryption/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:29:19 +0000 Jeff http://www.jeffbolden.net/?p=91 Ever wondered how AES encryption works? Take a look at Jeff Moser's excellent stick-figure guide and be enlightened! http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/23/a-stick-figure-guide-to-aes-encryption/feed/ 0 http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/23/a-stick-figure-guide-to-aes-encryption/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Jeffboldennet/~3/Phk7R8_FwGk/ http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/10/the-future-of-the-security-industry-bruce-schneier/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:49:16 +0000 Jeff http://www.jeffbolden.net/?p=80 I stumbled across a video of Bruce Schneier's excellent talk at OWASP on the future of the IT Security industry. It's an excellent discussion on how IT security is quickly becoming a commodity and more security is being outsourced. Bruce Schneier: The Future of the Security Industry: IT is Rapidly Becoming a Commodity from David Bryan [...] http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/10/the-future-of-the-security-industry-bruce-schneier/feed/ 0 http://www.jeffbolden.net/2009/09/10/the-future-of-the-security-industry-bruce-schneier/