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Sating the Beast

Published on July 8, 2012 By Kevin Pope

BYOD discussion continues to thrive today, and amid this discussion, some great points have been made.  What I want to go into now is something that I really can’t just tweet and actually need some room to write.  I think anyone who has ever worked a help desk knows what I mean when I write, [...]

Furthering the BYOD Discussion

Published on July 8, 2012 By Kevin Pope

I’m also going to throw my hat in the ring with the BYOD discussions.  So far, I’m very pleased to see that the majority of the opinions out there recently have been quite negative toward BYOD.  Some, like Matt Jezorek make great points, but I think that using corporate imaging for BYOD defeats the very [...]

Password Complexity Made Easy

Published on July 5, 2012 By Kevin Pope

I simply cannot harp on it enough.  Password complexity is a major part of being secure.  While there are plenty of ways in which someone can manage to steal your password, making unique and complex passwords for each service you need to login to can help prevent being hacked as well as mitigate the damage [...]

SANS Institute Poster

Published on June 27, 2012 By Kevin Pope

https://twitter.com/SANSInstitute/status/214879344106016768   SANS released a poster with a vast collection of malware discovery processes and steps.  For those of you who are not aware, the SANS Institute is only the most trusted world-wide authority on Information Security and training.  They have a poster which you can see here in a direct link to a .PDF [...]

The Hacking Tool Called Google

Published on June 27, 2012 By Kevin Pope

Hacking isn’t magic but to many people it may seem like it.  Sure, we often see Hollywood portray hackers as being able to guess a password in less than three tries, but that really isn’t how it’s done.  Actually, I have yet to see any kind of accurate portrayal of hacking anywhere outside of.. well.. [...]

Hacking Vista Video

Published on April 11, 2012 By Kevin Pope

In this video, you will watch me go through the very simple process of hacking a basic Windows Vista installation. I will also explain a little bit about what I am doing along the way. Once I demonstrate the full danger of being hacked, I then install some basic and free software onto the Vista [...]

WordPress Security Basics

Published on March 31, 2012 By Kevin Pope

Common WordPress Vulnerabilities Contents: The .htaccess File Dangers of Default Mitigation Recommendations Accounts and Passwords Plugins Minor FTP Work   The .htaccess File One of the most misunderstood aspects of WordPress is .htaccess. This article will assume that the reader doesn’t know much about file structure or permissions. Thankfully, one doesn’t need to know the [...]