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Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:51 AM

Story of Our Friend

One of our Pakistani friend died recently in road accident ( Ina Lilah Wa Ina Alyhay Rajayoon ). I went to the spot where the accident happened. You could still see the charming face and our friend had obviously been injured in the area of his brain.
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Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:30 PM

rpcbind (UNIX)

I'm crushed. Today while working on a FreeBSD system with multiple interfaces, I noticed the portmapper (rpcbind) listening where I didn't think it should be. Jahil# sockstat -4 | grep rpcbind root rpcbind 354 10 udp4 127.0.0.1:111 *:* root rpcbind 354
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:18 AM

IPSEC VPN/MPLS VPN ( Part 2 )

IPSec: A VPN technology created as a result of transferring the data to be transmitted over shared networks (like the Internet) with the logic of end-to-end tunneling and encrypting. MPLS: A VPN technology operating on a shared network. It is based on
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:10 AM

IPSEC VPN/MPLS VPN ( Part 1 )

The goal of a VPN is to provide connectivity over a shared infrastructure that is both secure and cost effective as a dedicated private network such as frame relay or ATM. In addition, the VPN solution must be scalable, highly available and easy to manage.
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:11 AM

Authenticating Linux against Active Directory

One thing to keep in mind is that – even when signed on in active directory - it doesn't offer a complete single sign on – yet. You will still have to provide a user name and password if using a windows based proxy server such as ISA server. You will
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:21 AM

Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx Microsoft announced that Formerly Windows code name "Longhorn" no longer exist, Longhorn will be called Windows Vista :) My previous post: Microsoft Naming Scheme's
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:10 AM

Ethical Issues

Many of the ethical issues that face IT professionals involve privacy. For example: Should you read the private e-mail of your network users just “because you can?” Is it okay to read employees’ e-mail as a security measure, to ensure that sensitive company
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:20 PM

Web Security Improvement Ideas

I have been keeping a list of web security improvement ideas for some time now. It's a list that does not contain only my ideas but thoughts I picked up from others over the years. I have been showing the list to others lately, so I thought it would be
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Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:45 PM

Slow LAN

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/deploy/depovg/tcpip2k.asp When Speed was tested in our local 100 Mbps LAN environment, I was really getting slow speed. In past, I have had been played with TCP/IP parameters on Unix systems to improve
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Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:12 AM

RADIUS Authentication Bypass

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) authentication on a device that is running certain versions of Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS) and configured with a fallback method to none can be bypassed. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a00804ae616.shtm
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