• The Disappearing Desktop: How VDI Is Changing the Game 34% plan to virtualize their desktop PCs. More than I expected. 9 hrs ago
  • The Lonely Planet for Application and Desktop delivery 2008-2009 Good overview about different virtualization technologies 9 hrs ago
  • Bypass UAC using a Desktop Shortcut Explains how one can launch an app that needs admin privileges without UAC alert. 9 hrs ago
  • Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers video intro. You have to enlarge it to fullscreen. Only works in IE. 2 days ago

Archive for July, 2006

Tue 4 Jul 2006

Blocking brute force attacks under Linux

By Michael Pietroforte | 3 Comments | Permalink

Marius Ducea discussed three ways how to block brute force attacks under Linux using iptables, PAM and fail2ban. All three posts are quite detailed and well written.

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Mon 3 Jul 2006

SmartSniff, a smarter packet sniffer than Ethereal/Wireshark

By Michael Pietroforte | 4 Comments | Permalink

Last Friday I posted a list of free packet sniffers. There, I promised to write about my favorite tool. You might have guessed that it is Ethereal since it probably is the most popular free network packet sniffer. It has many feature which its free rivals lack. This is also true for the free sniffer SmartSniff which is a much simpler tool. However, SmartSniff has some features which are quite useful for system administrators that Ethereal lacks. Its founder, Gerald Combs, recently transferred to a new company and had to rename Ethereal to Wireshark. There might be two different packet sniffers in the future. At the moment the two tools have the same features though.

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