cmdrbuzz - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oh Dear (Score 2) 55

by cmdrbuzz on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @06:21PM (#38207772) Attached to: RIM To Offer Multiplatform Device Management

Apple do have a MDM solution in Lion Server called Profile Manager. Its web based (server-side is Python with a Postgres DB).

Its a little flakey, but not too bad once you get over some of the undocumented "features" (like don't put certificates to be pushed out in the Everyone profile, or you'll get exceptions in Server.app)

Comment MS Forefront TMG can inspect HTTPS connections... (Score 1) 178

by cmdrbuzz on Thursday March 24, 2011 @09:42AM (#35597716) Attached to: Aussie PM Office Calls For Government Ban On Gmail, Hotmail

Have a look at Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (It's the renamed ISA Server)

It has full support for a man-in-the-middle HTTPS filtering module, with a wildcard certificate creation done for you as part of the wizard (the certificate is usually distributed in Active Directory to the clients)

It does however prompt you that there may be legal issues in your company should you enable the HTTPS filtering without notifing your users, and it also will prompt anyone using the client-side component with a balloon message saying that the HTTPS connection is being inspected.

Comment Re:It happened to me. (Score 1) 325

by cmdrbuzz on Sunday January 02, 2011 @11:34AM (#34737388) Attached to: Android Text Messages Intermittently Going Astray

No it doesn't. ActiveSync keeps a http(s) connection open to the server. It doesn't use SMS delivery. The old Exchange 2003 notification and the old Blackberry protocol did, not ActiveSync

US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation 372

Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, 2010 @07:31PM from the when-alabama-gets-the-bomb dept.

DesScorp writes "Recalling the famous Rosenberg nuclear spy case of the '50s, the US Justice Department has arrested a couple working at a 'leading nuclear research facility' for giving nuclear secrets to Venezuela. Pedro and Marjorie Mascheroni 'have been indicted on charges of communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official and conspiring to participate in the development of an atomic weapon for Venezuela,' the department said in a statement. If convicted, the couple would receive life in prison."

Submission + - Can VMware Put a Dent in MS Exchange? (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @02:15PM

snydeq writes: "'Exchange killers' come and go, but InfoWorld's Eric Knorr sees VMware's new Zimbra appliance as a credible competitor for Microsoft's Exchange user base. 'The appliance option addresses the large chunk of business customers that remain wary of ceding email to the cloud. Plus, the appliance is intended to reduce switching and ownership costs by making deployment and maintenance a snap. If Zimbra can pull that off, it will certainly have a leg up on Exchange. 'The appliance runs vSphere inside, which simplifies high availability, backup, and disaster recovery. Ubuntu runs under the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, but it's essentially embedded and invisible, so no Linux skills are required. Direct comparisons are complicated but VMware claims that its appliance solution costs between 35 and 50 percent less than Exchange.'"

Comment Re:Apps (Score 1) 139

by cmdrbuzz on Monday September 07, 2009 @11:48AM (#29340809) Attached to: Google Apps Not the DC Success Many Believe?

You do realize that ActiveSync allows the admin and / or the user to remotely wipe the device? Supported on both Windows Mobile and the iPhone....

And consumers with a MobileMe subscription can wipe their iPhone (and other stuff like locate it / display messages etc) from www.me.com?

Submission + - Boston Man Sues State Bar Over Gay Test Question (connexion.org)

Submitted by caol.kailash on Sunday July 08, 2007 @12:23AM

caol.kailash writes: A man who flunked Massachusetts' bar exam is claiming in federal court that he failed test because he refused to answer a question related to gay marriage.
The reason he didn't answer? It was "morally repugnant" to him to have a "contemporary issue" question, especially one regarding gay marriage, on the bar exam and he refused to answer. Isn't that a lawyer's job? To know all laws regardless of their "repugnance" or not?

Submission + - blatent plagerism by anonymous coward (slashdot.org)

Submitted by jdc on Saturday July 07, 2007 @11:15PM

jdc writes: I realize this is totally the wrong place to post this... BUT i couldn't find anywhere else to put it Comments are owned by posters, but what about anonymous cowards? See the link. Copywrited text is copied and pasted into this article. Looks like someone paid $39 for this article and posted the text on /. Sorry again for posting this here

Submission + - Netcraft confirms ebuyer powered by ZX Spectrum

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 07, 2007 @09:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: Internet monitoring company Netcraft today confirms that eBuyer is running an assortment of unexpected website hardware. The Apache 2.0.59 powered website using is reported to be using hardware including a CRAY, ZX Spectrum 48k (with Rubber Keys), and a Commodore C64.

Submission + - F-Secure respond to criticism of .bank

Submitted by Crimson Fire on Saturday May 19, 2007 @07:51AM

Crimson Fire writes: F-Secure recently offered a solution to the problem of bank account phishing. In their latest blog entry they respond to criticisms of the .bank TLD that were previously raised on Slashdot.

Secure Private Key Storage for UNIX? 95

Posted by Cliff on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:51PM from the kernel-level-key-ring dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Microsoft Windows, from 2000 forward (except ME) offers secure certificate and private storage at the OS level in what is called a protected store. Offline, it's encrypted by a combination of the user's password and a session key stored on the filesystem. When the OS is running, the private keys stored are available to the logged in user, optionally encrypted with another password. The keys are stored in protected memory, so no applications can access them without going through the Microsoft CAPI calls. This code also is FIPS 140-1 level 1 (the best one can get for software cryptography modules) compliant." Does any other OS provide this kind of feature at the OS-level? If so, who? If not, why?

Submission + - Google screws over Owner of popular OSS project

Submitted by buhatkj on Thursday February 22, 2007 @03:16PM

buhatkj writes: The guy who runs the popular OSS 3d engine project Irrlicht just got banned from Google AdSense, after an accusation of click fraud!
From the Blog Post:

"Maybe you've noticed, for the last few days some google ads appeared on this blog, but they have disappeared now again. That's because I just got banned from google adsense for life time (as it seems), although I didn't do anything wrong."

Not only that, but they are witholding monies already earned by his ads prior to the accusation.

"In that mail, they did not even tell me any information about their problem with my ads, only "invalid clicks or page impressions". No IP adresses, no channel ID, no website, no time or date, no amount of clicks, nothing. No way for me to find out what was wrong. There was the possibility to contradict, and I tried to explain some possible causes like the sudden increased amount of traffic, but they ignored me. The interesting thing: They now even won't pay out the money I already earned before the occurance of their 'invalid clicks' assert. "

Check out the full story HERE

Submission + - BBC on-demand video to use Microsoft DRM

Submitted by kayle on Thursday February 22, 2007 @01:41PM

kayle writes: Several sources have strong statements against the BBC's plan to use Microsoft's DRM in their on-demand video broadcasts (audio will be DRM-free). They will require Windows Media Player. They currently have an open consultation for feedback. Tell them what you think!

Submission + - Junk Faxes

Submitted by olddoc on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:31AM

olddoc writes: I am having a growing problem with junk faxes. Unlike email, it costs me money when I get a fax so junk faxes really tick me off. A while ago, I gave my number to a removal number and now I am getting more junk faxes than ever! Does anyone know how to make them pay? What devious methods can I use to get even? Can I sign up for a phone number that will drive up their costs when I call the toll free removal number? What have other readers done?

Submission + - Most Comprehensive Reverse Hash Lookup (MD5, etc)

Submitted by

Dustin Fineout

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @04:29PM

Dustin Fineout writes: "A new reverse hash look-up web site has been launched which conglomerates the separate efforts of many such sites into a single resource. http://md5.dustinfineout.com/ searches both local databases and several remote servers to create the most comprehensive reverse hash look-up available anywhere, and in under ten seconds.

The initial version, launched yesterday, offers reverse hash look-up for the MD5 algorithm on a total of six servers' databases. By the end of the week, support for SHA1, MD2, MD4, LanMan, and NTLM algorithms have been promised, as well as expanding the server pool to at least 10 different data sources. The web application also allows visitors to add entries to the datapool by checking for their existence in all servers in the datapool before adding to a local database. The source code for both the online PHP application and several Java programs are also scheduled to be released under the BSD license by the end of this week."

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