Monday, April 17, 2006

new beginnings

A career changing event happened today, as I switched to Central European Time. I'll be doing some Novell Identity Manager product stuff.
I'll try to write often...




Thursday, April 06, 2006

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Mar. TASK group monthly meeting

The Toronto Area Security Klatch group meeting is Wednesday evening with a topic set on "Risks and Vulnerabilities". Presenters will be Mike Murray, Jay Graver & Jeremy Richards of nCircle.
If you're nearby downtown Toronto, it's highly recommended as a free to attend event. More info _here_.




Sunday, February 19, 2006

Feb. TASK group monthly meeting

The Toronto Area Security Klatch group meeting is Wednesday evening with a topic set on "Insider Threat & ShmooCon Review". Presenters will be Carl Bonds, CEO, CSO for Elytra Enterprises & Jeremy Richards, nCircle Vulnerability Research Engineer.
If you're nearby downtown Toronto, it's highly recommended as a free to attend event. More info _here_.




Monday, January 23, 2006

Jan. TASK group monthly meeting

The Toronto Area Security Klatch group meeting is Wednesday evening with a topic set on "Security in Windows Server 2003 R2". Presenter will be Bruce Cowper of Microsoft Canada. Note the new location this evening.
If you're nearby downtown Toronto, it's highly recommended as a free to attend event. More info _here_.




Saturday, December 31, 2005

Deadline closes on MS eMail Servers

January 1st marks the first day that MS Exchange Server 5.5 support is not available. Novell's superior GroupWise product offers lower TCO and back-end administration. Happy new year to all the Exchange5.5 admins out there too!
This is a continuation of my earlier _posting_.




Friday, December 30, 2005

Zero-Day attack issue plagues MS

Seems the folks at Microsoft are mum about the latest Zero-Day attack issue. What's scary about the WMF vulnerability is that a .WMF can be renamed to a common .gif or .jpeg and have the same effect on security. They've issued just a Security Advisory with no fix.




Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Internet Users builds to One Billion

In an online article, the count of persons on the Web has reached One Billion. That's pretty much one in five worldwide. Simply aMazing...




Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Novell elevated to the top tier of IBM's strategic alliance program

Novell's SuSE has elevated it to the top tier of IBM's strategic alliance program. See the news release _here_.




Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Red [linux] Flag waves in China

Seems China's Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. is riding the wave of Open Source and testifying to bringing down Microsoft. Read _here_ & check their _site_.



Thursday, December 08, 2005

Novacoast announces VoiceRD on SUSE Linux

Novacoast, Inc. has created an Open Source VoIP implementation of the Asterisk (Open Source) PBX. The VoiceRD appliance runs Novell's SUSE Linux, Novell eDirectory, Novell Identity Manager and Novell AppArmor. Check the product page _here_.