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1. iTWireTV INTERVIEW: Delinea CRO Damon Tompkins and APAC VP Wahab Yusoff deftly delineate the benefits of Privileged Access Management: (Guest Interviews); ... all human and non-human identities, not just sysadmins and superusers PAM capabilities are delivered through one unified interface – to address traditional and emerging use cases for identity-based cybersecurity ...; Created on 11 October 2022
2. VIDEO INTERVIEW: Delinea CRO Damon Tompkins and APAC VP Wahab Yusoff deftly delineate the benefits of Privileged Access Management: (Security); ... all human and non-human identities, not just sysadmins and superusers PAM capabilities are delivered through one unified interface – to address traditional and emerging use cases for identity-based cybersecurity ...; Created on 11 October 2022
3. New ASPI tool offers means to check website, email and net connection: (Security); ... with the Debian GNU/Linux project and a veteran sysadmin to evaluate the site. His reaction: "It seems legit, and it's a good idea. It could do with more detail; it says that DNSSEC is not enabled for ...; Created on 06 April 2022
4. Australian sites crashed on Tuesday due to DNS errors: (Technology Regulation); ... sysadmin Russell Coker said: "Looks like the very significant change to .au domains resulted in some breakage and that the people responsible didn't give good status updates." auDA has been contacted for ...; Created on 23 March 2022
5. PRTG lets your IT ops teams rest easy knowing they can monitor everything they need: (Software); ... at that time we said PRTG allows a sysadmin to plan their day around the product’s notifications, and it gives executives transparency into where money should be spent on the network. Fast forward to ...; Created on 15 March 2022
6. SolarWinds SQL Sentry is the watchdog your database needs: (Guest Reviews); ... it turned out alerts were generated, revealing the failure was imminent—and hence, preventable—but all the alerts were simply filed away to a folder, sitting unread, via a rule in Outlook. The SysAdmins ...; Created on 22 November 2021
7. SolarWinds SQL Sentry is the watchdog your database needs: (Data); ... it turned out alerts were generated, revealing the failure was imminent—and hence, preventable—but all the alerts were simply filed away to a folder, sitting unread, via a rule in Outlook. The SysAdmins ...; Created on 22 November 2021
8. Avoiding Spectre bug may mean having to buy a new PC: sysadmin: (Security); Avoiding processors that suffer from the Spectre vulnerability will, in some cases, mean that one has to buy a new CPU, a senior Linux systems administrator says. Russell Coker, a senior developer ...; Created on 08 March 2021
9. Acronis issues warning of critical privacy risks in 2021 on Jan 28, Data Privacy Day: (Security); ... Privacy Day 2021 is an ideal opportunity to bring attention to the risks to data privacy, the researchers at the Acronis CPOCs have identified additional cyberthreat trends that will challenge sysadmins, ...; Created on 28 January 2021
10. Bid to explain Red Hat's killing of CentOS makes users angrie: (Open Sauce); ... Linux and your users' trust by moving the EOL of CentOS Linux 8 from 2029 to 2021. "You've alienated a few hunderd thousand sysadmins that started upgrading to 8 this year and you've thrown the Scientific ...; Created on 23 December 2020
11. CentOS dumping tells us Red Hat has only dollar signs in its sights: (Open Sauce); ... now be seen as nothing more than the emperor's new clothes. CentOS was just Red Hat's enterprise Linux, with the trademarks removed to avoid any infringement. It was the go-to distribution for any sysadmin ...; Created on 09 December 2020
12. OpenZFS has released an update, but how many users really care?: (Open Sauce); ... the Linux kernel is released. Debian also offers it as an option, though not the default. And some years ago, I interviewed a sysadmin who runs FreeBSD on his servers and makes extensive use of ZFS. Like ...; Created on 07 December 2020
13. ZDNet and Linux often provide a good chance for a laugh: (Open Sauce); ... to get in." I doubt that any seasoned sysadmin would claim that keeping a system safe from attacks is easy. And when people run hundreds of servers, they normally write simple scripts to automate most ...; Created on 26 November 2020
14. Outlook PST Repair is the solution to sysadmin PST and OST headaches: (Sponsored Announcements); REVIEW PROMOTION: Storing all your email online is great, but offline email is still critical. Besides the obvious advantage of working without an Internet connection, it’s faster to search and to open ...; Created on 25 November 2020
15. Outlook PST Repair is the solution to sysadmin PST and OST headaches: (Guest Reviews); REVIEW PROMOTION: Storing all your email online is great, but offline email is still critical. Besides the obvious advantage of working without an Internet connection, it’s faster to search and to open ...; Created on 25 November 2020
16. Outlook PST Repair is the solution to sysadmin PST and OST headaches: (Software); REVIEW PROMOTION: Storing all your email online is great, but offline email is still critical. Besides the obvious advantage of working without an Internet connection, it’s faster to search and to open ...; Created on 25 November 2020
17. Microsoft 365 services hit by yet another outage, network change blamed: (Security); ... updates, you keep breaking our business and other we talk to! get with the program M$ or do it outside of business hours !!! **SYSADMIN 101** — Aran Miller (@Nexrad84) October 7, 2020 The company ...; Created on 08 October 2020
18. Microsoft puts lipstick on a pig to avoid scrutiny over security: (Open Sauce); ... break Windows systems, which sysadmin in his/her right mind would turn the tap on and go off for a boozy weekend? And then a third case: "54% of sites have devices that can be remotely accessed from ...; Created on 05 October 2020
19. Telstra BGP routing error hits many major sites worldwide: (Networking); ... impacted. @Telstra is announcing our 185.70.40.0/24 subnet without authorisation." In November 2018, Telstra took down part of the Internet in Australia due to a BGP configuration mistake. Sysadmins ...; Created on 01 October 2020
20. HPE warns firmware bug will kill four SSD models after 40,000 hours: (Hardware); HPE has warned users of four models of its SAS solid state drives that the devices, which are used in servers and storage products, could die after 40,000 hours of operation unless a firmware fix is applied. ...; Created on 26 March 2020
21. ASPI sensitive to fact that China study paid for by US State Department: (Open Sauce); ... it is the first bit of network hygiene, as even a junior sysadmin would confirm. Among ASPI's sponsors are shipbuilder Austal, US defence contractor Lockheed Martin, US defence supplier Northrop Grumman, ...; Created on 16 February 2020
22. ownCloud, Securosys enable encryption through hardware security modules: (Cloud); ... in question. Additionally, the integration of hardware security modules meant that even sysadmins could be excluded from being able to decrypt files at rest. This could be achieved by storing the master ...; Created on 20 September 2019
23. Firm that found Exim bug says 'millions of attacks' claim unreliabl: (Security); ... us nothing about changes made by a sysadmin in the Exim configuration file. Then again, there are Linux distributions like Debian which backport fixes for problems such as this – and in such cases, the ...; Created on 19 June 2019
24. Here’s how new ActiveImage tech delivers easy backup and recovery management: (Sponsored Announcements); ... managed from a single centralised console. ActiveImage’s Australian-based Asia Pacific VP, Richard Giddey, says that ActiveImage has also simplified licensing for virtual infrastructures. A sysadmin ...; Created on 18 June 2019
25. Here’s how new ActiveImage tech delivers easy backup and recovery management: (Strategy); ... A sysadmin using a traditional backup and disaster recovery application may have to purchase, install and manage multiple licenses, but with with ActiveImage a single license and single software instance ...; Created on 18 June 2019
26. ASPI 'researcher' comes a-cropper in thinly masked attack on Huawe: (Open Sauce); ... after a breach is an indication that the investigators are fairly sure that there has been no deep intrusion into the system; it is the first bit of network hygiene, as even a junior sysadmin would confirm. ...; Created on 17 June 2019
27. New Nextcloud version offers improved access control: (Cloud); ... and folders which a user may need to access, based on previous activity. Access control lists have been introduced to fill a role that has been usually carried out by file servers. Sysadmins can set ...; Created on 30 April 2019
28. Parliament hack: ASD cautious, but ABC jumps the gun on attribution: (Open Sauce); ... a breach is an indication that the investigators are fairly sure that there has been no deep intrusion made into the system; it is the first bit of network hygiene, as even a junior sysadmin would confirm. ...; Created on 11 February 2019
29. Nextcloud adds social app in new release: (Cloud); ... statement from the company said security had also been approved with updates to two-factor authentication, making it easier to use through notifications and more secure by allowing sysadmins to enforce ...; Created on 11 December 2018
30. Google's false positives can leave websites without certificate: (Security); ... visit the site using Chrome or a browser built using the Chrome codebase, a Melbourne developer says. Russell Coker, an experienced sysadmin and Linux developer, had just such an experience recently ...; Created on 01 October 2018
31. Multi-factor authentication can help reduce breaches: claim: (Security); The latest data breach report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner indicates that organisations which do not use multi-factor authentication for customers, employees and sysadmins ...; Created on 31 July 2018
32. Access to Windows through RDP for sale at low prices: (Security); ... on the dark web. RDP allows one Windows user to access another Windows computer through a graphical interface and is used for remote administration by sysadmins. But, as Fokker pointed out, "The recent ...; Created on 12 July 2018
33. HP patches for iLO may be tough to locate: researcher: (Security); ... has the features that a sysadmin needs to remotely manage a server. iLO4, which is used on servers belonging to the HP ProLiant Gen8 and ProLiant Gen9 lines, runs on a dedicated ARM processor that is totally ...; Created on 25 June 2018
34. When F00F bug hit 20 years ago, Intel reacted the same way: (Security); ... on an Intel newsgroup that the company knew about it earlier before. The processor firm confirmed the existence on 10 November. But, says veteran Linux sysadmin Rick Moen, the company's reaction to that ...; Created on 05 January 2018
35. ABC leaks sensitive data through misconfigured S3 bucket: (Security); ... user details. The current leak through AWS meant that the sysadmins at the ABC had misconfigured a repository and provided access to anyone with a browser who knew the URL. A redacted screenshot ...; Created on 18 November 2017
36. MaxParallel speeds SQL Server with parallel I/O: (Data); ... install MaxParallel, and restart SQL Server. No software reconfiguration is required. This is easy enough for a typical sysadmin, suggested Marinelli, and is something that "will bring a lot of benefit ...; Created on 31 October 2017
37. Data warehouse helps IT manager gain elevation to CIO: (People Moves); ... Smiles Group, which has 70 dental centres with plans for 12 more in the next financial year. Williams (below, right) has worked as a sysadmin, developer, business analyst and filled many other roles ...; Created on 18 August 2017
38. IT workers' lobby group pledges to expose visa rorters: (Outsourcing); ... in 2015-16, visas for IT workers went close to 12,000 in 2012-13, down below 10,000 the following year and back close to 11,000 in the next two years. Again, visas issued for IT support and sysadmin ...; Created on 27 April 2017
39. Debian developer held over alleged role in riots: (Open Source); ... on 6 April in connection with anti-Russia protests in Moscow on 2 April. The panel investigating the protests claims Bogatov posted several incitory messages on the sysadmin.ru forum; for example, one ...; Created on 26 April 2017
40. In-app ads expose Skype users to ransomware: (Security); Skype users are being targeted by Windows ransomware that is apparently served up through ads within the Skype application. A user on Reddit said that when Skype ran on starting up, a pop-up appeared ...; Created on 31 March 2017
41. More SHA-1 attacks likely after script, website come online: (Security); ... wrote the Python script which could be used to create two files that could be used in an attack. Meanwhile, Subversion developers have now released a script using which sysadmins can prevent this glitch; ...; Created on 27 February 2017
42. The great Australian citizen 28m Active Directory domain: (Enterprise Solutions); A Reddit posting says the Australian Government may be looking at Active Directory to authenticate 28 million Australian citizens in a future public-facing website. The sysadmin subreddit was intrigued, ...; Created on 20 January 2017
43. Keeping your SQL Server healthy: (The Wired CIO); ... had tolerated such a setup for so long. I knew why disk I/O was so poor. I could only look at the IT manager in surprise. He, in turn, said "The sysadmin must have changed this! These were RAID 10!" and ...; Created on 06 January 2017
44. Ransomware: Windows is the elephant in the room: (Open Sauce); ... sysadmins. Among them was Paul Ducklin, at that time an employee of Sophos, and a man who tended to avoid BS. His contribution still stays in my memory. Wrote Ducklin: "As you know, I'm mostly neutral ...; Created on 02 December 2016
45. TIBCO Jaspersoft now for Docker: (Enterprise Solutions); Tibco’s containerised embedded analytics solution now plays well with the industry leading containerisation platform Docker, allowing sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether ...; Created on 30 November 2016
46. openSUSE community Linux moves ahead of Fedora: (Open Source); ... "typically one of the more noisier contributors". A Briton who lives in Germany, Brown began his IT career as a sysadmin in the days when Novell's Netware was flavour of the times. He was thus familiar ...; Created on 12 November 2016
47. SAGE-AU now ITPA as systems administrators look to the future: (Strategy); ... Robert Hudson, the founding president for ITPA and the last SAGE-AU president, says the industry has evolved to the point where demarcation lines between previous sysadmin roles and other IT roles ...; Created on 13 October 2016
48. Major US east coast phone carriers hit by outage: (Networking); ... light on the possible cause of the outage. One sysadmin on the NANOG list did speculate that the outage might be due to a denial of service attack, writing "This could be DoS attack." In response well-known ...; Created on 05 October 2016
49. Open-source PowerShell released for Linux, OS X: (Open Source); ... of the official Microsoft version will be based upon community input and business needs," he added. Asked for his reaction to the Microsoft move on PowerShell, Debian developer and sysadmin Russell Coker ...; Created on 19 August 2016
50. Most Android phones 'vulnerable to Linux TCP flaw: (Security); ... California sysadmin Rick Moen which iTWire has already reported: to use sysctl to increase the setting in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_challenge_ack_limit to 999999999. The company said more technical Android ...; Created on 17 August 2016

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