PIX/ASA Checklist

PIX/ASA Checklist
As with configuring any firewall, administrators should develop a checklist that they can use during the installation and implementation of the PIX/ASA firewall in the network. There are really two components to this checklist. First, you want to define the implementation requirements and determine how the firewall should be configured and what options will be [...]

CISCO Top networking questions

Cisco networking questions

What are 10Base2, 10Base5 and 10BaseT Ethernet LANs ?
What is the difference between an unspecified passive open and a fully specified passive open
Explain the function of Transmission Control Block
What is a Management Information Base (MIB)
What is anonymous FTP and why would you use it?
What is a pseudo tty?
What is REX?
What does the Mount protocol [...]

Installing PostgreSQL

This is a quick guide to installing PostgreSQL on a Linux based system. We need to get this up and running before we can write PHP scripts to talk to the database. We need to install PostgreSQL before we can install PHP (since we need the PostgreSQL header files).

This is a little more complicated than installing [...]

Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life

Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life
Posted on – Thu Apr 9, 2009 4:50PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO – The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm’s authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

As many as 12 million computers [...]

How Do I Restart MySQL Server?

How Do I Restart MySQL Server?

Each distribution comes with a shell script (read as service) to restart / stop / start MySQL server. First login as root user and open shell prompt (command prompt).

First login as root user. Now type the following command as per your Linux distro:

A) If you are using mysql on RedHat Linux [...]

Installing OpenFire on CentOS 5

Installing OpenFire on CentOS 5

Download and install the openfire rpm 3.6.3 (as of this writing).

#mkdir downloads

#cd downloads

#wget http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/openfire-3.6.3-1.i386.rpm

# rpm -ivh openfire-3.6.3-1.i386.rpm
Openfire has an embedded database that you can use in case you don’t have MySQL installed, I prefer using MySQL though, I also tried using the embedded database, works just fine too. Create the database using [...]

God of Cybers

In this photo released by the Macomb County Sheriffs Department, James S. Green II, 35, of Macomb County’s Washington Township is shown in a booking photo in Mount Clemens, Mich., Tuesday, March 14, 2006. Green, a former security guard at General Motors Corp.’s Warren, Mich., technical center, is accused of taking employee Social Security numbers and [...]

Asterisk -Configuring a queue

The following queue works as following:

star all calls are monitored, i.e. saved to disk
star if after 60 seconds on the queue the call is unanswered, the call is routed to voicemail
star there are two levels of agents: agents 4000 and 4001 will answer the queue (level 1); only if none of them is available the call [...]

world's top ten hackers?

The portrayal of hackers in the media has ranged from the high-tech super-spy, as in Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt repels from the ceiling to hack the CIA computer system and steal the “NOC list,” to the lonely anti-social teen who is simply looking for entertainment.

The reality, however, is that hackers are a very diverse bunch, [...]

GOD of Cybers

Army Pfc. Eric O. Jenott, shown in these undated law enforcement photos, has been charged with espionage for allegedly hacking into military computer systems and giving national defense secrets to the Chinese. (AP Photo). Submit Date 08/21/1996 23:51:00

Under questioning by an unidentified police officer, Chen [...]