January 13, 2005, 8:49 am
myNetWatchman’s SecCheck is a handy tool available as ActiveX or DOS executable. It dumps out a bunch of configuration detail from your system:
- Currently active processes
- Defined services
- Startup folder items
- Startup Registry Key contents
- Applications listening for inbound connections
- Applications with active network communications
- Active Browser Helper objects (BHOs)
- Installed ActiveX controls
- Module dump (DLLs) for all active applications
If you don’t mind trusting the executable content from myNetWatchman, it’s faster and easier than downloading a bunch of separate tools (fport, etc) to do the same thing.
January 11, 2005, 7:39 am
As a former university information security officer I take particular interest in these things (this could be you):
Hacker compromises data at George Mason University – Computerworld:
The names, photos and Social Security numbers of more than 32,000 students and staff at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., have been compromised as the result of a hacker attack against the university’s main ID server.
The attack was discovered during a routine review of system files and prompted the school to disconnect the compromised server from the network, according to an e-mail sent to members of the university community yesterday by Joy Hughes, the school’s vice president for information technology.
January 10, 2005, 8:29 am
Via Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends: iPod Imaging:
… several thousands of doctors are using the free OsiriX software to manage their medical images on their iPods and Macintoshes …
It’s an interesting route-around of the usual IT solutions (which offer not enough space and are less convenient). My cursory inspection of all the linked-to articles and software documentation shows zero discussion of privacy, security, and HIPAA — yet. Is sending a medical image via iChat secure enough?
