Posts made by Deleted74295

@QuixoticJeremy There is still a sense of achievement to bringing down say... DynDNS for a day.

https://dyn.com/blog/dyn-statement-on-10212016-ddos-attack/

Not an easy thing to do but some attacks are more about the fame than the profit.

Imagine you are sitting at home just drifting off to sleep, during the night you briefly stir as you think you hear a noise, hearing nothing further you go back to sleep.When you wake up in the morning, you go to work, you come home, you go about your life.

3 weeks later a policeman arrives at your home to tell you that someone has been sneaking into your house every night, reading your letters, going through your possessions but not leaving any obvious sign or damage to any windows or doors. They’ve not caught the person, they are still out there.

You now feel a sense of fear: “how do I stop this happening again to me?” you ask.

Do you need alarms? Guard dogs? CCTV and guns? No…you just need to lock the front door.

I have not posted the full piece purely because converting the formatting is a nightmare. Read the full one here: https://medium.com/dara-it/cyber-security-is-bull-t-this-is-why-51f53da6d3cf

Well, has it ever done a bad job?

I put as much faith in the EU antitrust committee as I do in a lottery ticket.

Shopping?

Does anyone here in Europe use Google for shopping? We use Google to get to other shops and it does a good job of it.

Homepage of your website as I was curious to see if this was a scam or not.

Kinda amusing to see this on the home page...

@Carnival-Boy said in Pentest - Who would you recommend?:

@Breffni-Potter said in Pentest - Who would you recommend?:

@Carnival-Boy The only issue with sec-1 is they are a Claranet company. Claranet...

They only bought them 3 weeks ago! But, yeah, one to keep an eye on, for sure.

Everyone knows BT are awful, Claranet manage to beat BT at being bad for double the money.

@Jimmy9008 said in Pentest - Who would you recommend?:

@Breffni-Potter said in Pentest - Who would you recommend?:

@Jimmy9008 said

Pentest. You get our company name, that is all. Can you get in? Could you almost get in? What could/did you change? etc.

Challenge accepted.

Lol, but at what cost £££

The fastest way to get the best pentest in the world, put out a bounty. Same way the big boys do it. If you get every type of hacker trying to crack your network for a prize, you can bet you'll find out if its secure.

This is a big problem with pen tests with many companies, how imaginative and motivated is the attacker?

@Jimmy9008 said

Pentest. You get our company name, that is all. Can you get in? Could you almost get in? What could/did you change? etc.

Challenge accepted.

@Carnival-Boy The only issue with sec-1 is they are a Claranet company. Claranet...their culture is really poor, they've kept making mistakes on ISP projects, support failures and for one client, Claranet actually held their service to ransom by switching off the connection before a migration to a competitor, the client buckled and re-signed for 2 years and within 10 minutes the service was back up.

Sec-1 might just be owned by Claranet and they are fantastic on their own but its a bit like LogMeIn owning LastPass, LastPass is great, LogMeIn, not so much.

@Jimmy9008 - Yep, it was a response to a breach. A specific requirement was zero pen-test but all other reports are similar, we looked here, tried this, found this, fix it this way.

I am clearly biased but I've gotta throw my 2 cents in here.

https://darait.co.uk/files/darait-samplesecurityaudit-feb-2017.pdf

What you receive entirely depends on the scope, for the audit above they wanted a zero scanning check to see what their external IT provider missed out after a breach which cost quite a bit of money. The external provider left out a lot even after they got told this was happening.

Might be worth us having a chat.

@JaredBusch said in Confused with IT Posts names, what's the difference ?:

Titles in IT are generally made up.

They mean different things to different companies.

Fixed for you.

Regardless of SuiteCRM, you should never deploy a webapp on a Windows machine unless you have an extremely rare and good reason to do so and are happy to accept the compromises.

No impact with hyper-v enabled on Windows 10 from what I could see.

@dafyre said in Video Editing Build Suggestions:

But for those, I'll usually use an AMD Radeon card for the video editing, or an NVIDIA card for gaming.

This is madness if the end user has Premier Pro for software. Nvidia cards with CUDA acceleration are a beast. You'd never look at Radeon with Premier Pro.

What software for editing? Your hardware choices are dictated by the software.

@RojoLoco said in Video Editing Build Suggestions:

@JaredBusch said in Video Editing Build Suggestions:

@RojoLoco said in Video Editing Build Suggestions:

Why 2 different displays?

I assume because he did not want to pay for 2 4K displays.

I was poking at the cheepnis. A video editing rig is no place to cheap out on displays.

You only need 1 high res and colour accurate screen. Sure if you have money to spend on 2-4 matching screens go for it, but if on a budget, you really only need 1.

I've lost count of how many specialists there are who are having a harder time finding work than the generalists.

20+ years doing absolutely nothing but Microsoft Exchange? In a world of Office 365 and Google Apps, your options are limited.

My support margins for support on prem versus cloud, is triple. Yes, triple the income for persuading a client to use on prem solutions.

You get to maintain all the software
You get to maintain the physical stuff when it breaks
You get to migrate/upgrade/replace

So many ways of making money whilst screwing the client.

Yes, someone has convinced them on prem is better and is laughing all the way to the bank.

@wirestyle22 said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@scottalanmiller said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@Breffni-Potter said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@scottalanmiller said

For MSPs, for example, things like XO are godsends. Centralized management for multiple installations, no need for Windows licensing just for a GUI interface, etc.

Oh I'd happily be a XO user if Xen itself was not the ugly step sister of the VM world. Some of the stuff it is doing is just too special to really throw it into the mix of offerings, so its hyper-v or (heaven help us) VMWare.

What about KVM?

KVM doesn't have anything like XO afaik

https://virt-manager.org/

@scottalanmiller said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@Breffni-Potter said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@scottalanmiller said

For MSPs, for example, things like XO are godsends. Centralized management for multiple installations, no need for Windows licensing just for a GUI interface, etc.

Oh I'd happily be a XO user if Xen itself was not the ugly step sister of the VM world. Some of the stuff it is doing is just too special to really throw it into the mix of offerings, so its hyper-v or (heaven help us) VMWare.

What about KVM?

We go from ugly step sister to the uncle who does everything for the family but is invisible.

@brandon220 Are you charging for any of this?