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Disaster Recovery and High Availability!

October 12th, 2009 Sumit No comments

I have been reading the security bootcamp emails daily from Infoword these days and I must say they are very informative and have helped me a lot to understand various aspects of security.

Here is one of the bootcamp email i got a chance to read today and is one of the best articles you will find out about high availability, business continuity and disaster recovery planning!

Check it out here: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/are-you-ready-big-one-115

– Sumit

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Vulnerable Windows Network Protocol

October 1st, 2009 Sumit No comments

It has been a couple of weeks since Microsft has advised IT administrators to disable SMBv2 because of an unpatched vulnerability that affects Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.

This vulnerability could allow remote code execution which accounts for majority of vulnerabilities given today.

Microsoft has provided a tool to do this manually.

The link is give here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975497

– Sumit

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