Had a Forefront client that displayed the annoying* orange alert icon. The system was refusing to get the current Forefront definitions update with a 0×80080005. No updating for me A quick search of the web got me no-where. Back to proper troubleshooting. Check services (Automatic Updates & Background Intelligent Transfer Service) and WindowsUpdate.log details are [...]
Was doing a bit of house keeping in a lab and had to re-point the Forefront MOM agents for a whole pile of machines. I remembered that FCS Nerds’ Craig Wiands had done a great post on it, so it dug it out and kicked of a simple batch script. Boom – redirected all the [...]
Damian, Senior facilitator, is embarking on the Penetration Testing with BackTrack PWB Online course from the Offensive Security guys. He applied and did not receive any email response. This was a bit strange. Damian discovered that his Ironport has classified the Offensive Security domain as bad (-2 rating). As he is an Iron Port guru, [...]
A quick and simple ISA rule to block dangerous web sites and URLs Overview: Create a URL set of all sites and block them. In this case I want to stop users being re-directed to the malware sites of the day. The sites I want to blocked are taken from the Internet Storm Center story [...]
Catching up on the weekly security news, this headline caught my eye, “US and South Korean Sites Under Attack; Late Data Says Attacking PCs to Self Destruct (July 8 & 9, 2009)” from the SANS weekly newsbites. The piece covers recent attacks on US and South Korean government, military and private industry, with some nice [...]
