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Just wanted to post here, to officially request something that was mentioned in chat: An IT Security StackExchange wallpaper.
I think the main site's "banner logo" (including: lion, shield, starburst, wings, "Tron lines", banner) would look great against its current backdrop color, as a full-s...
@Jin Does that show up in the logs, or did you just check to see if verdana is installed by default on this distro? The 3rd option creeps me out a bit :)
@Jin Cool, thanks. All too often I end up feeling like the special case when these kinds of things come up. I try really hard to convince myself that a reasonable portion of our user base is probably using a linux. :)
I'm actually running at 1920x1080 and 1680x1050 on mine. I don't much care for the discrepancy, but that's what happens when you buy off state contracts. One quarter they decide to standardize on 23", every other time it's 22". WTG guys.
@Jin I'll bet. Thankfully I'm mostly dealing with data processing and the like, so I can reasonably treat them as entirely different work spaces. Different gammas would drive me absolutely nuts, though.
I am connecting to a VPN server that has been compromised and is under the complete control of an attacker. The virtual network its self contains numerous attackers waiting for a new target. What steps should be taken to protect myself in this hostile environment?
for the wallpaper, i think an easy solution would be to create the logo in the center, and people can pad extra spacing to fill out whatever res they want
I found this article, which seems pretty good but was written in 2003 so I'm not sure how up to date it is.
Can IP address spoofing still be used for:
Denial of Service attacks
Man in the middle attacks
Are there other types of attacks this can be used for?
@ThomasPornin I just assumed because Apple market share is still tiny compared to Windows, therefore not enough hackers are interested in hacking them. not necessarily more secure.
@ScottPack i heard the analogy where Macs are like houses on a remote farm with front door open, and windows are like steelbared apts in the urban ghetto
The most obvious issue that I see with Mac is that there is no real centralized management. So even if your company is managing desktops, what tools that do exist for OSX is pretty piss poor.
Just wanted to post here, to officially request something that was mentioned in chat: An IT Security StackExchange wallpaper.
I think the main site's "banner logo" (including: lion, shield, starburst, wings, "Tron lines", banner) would look great against its current backdrop color, as a full-s...
I am connecting to a VPN server that has been compromised and is under the complete control of an attacker. The virtual network its self contains numerous attackers waiting for a new target. What steps should be taken to protect myself in this hostile environment?
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