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Jared’s WordPress Downloads

May 3, 2017 Jared Hall General, WordPress No Comments

I put up a new Download Center. The first files uploaded to it are both related to WordPress: WPSCAN and SHA512-PASS WPSCAN is a Unix command-line scanner that can be useful in identifying Hacked Pages and Backdoors within a WordPress site/directory structure. The next file is a PHP WordPress plugin called SHA512-PASS. It stores user […]

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BOLO: Apple’s Big Mac Attacks!

May 3, 2017 Jared Hall Apple Products, BOLOs, General No Comments

For those people with Macs, there are dark clouds overhead. According to McAfee Labs, malware attacks designed for Mac computers rose 744 percent in 2016. It started with the discovery of the Osx.Dok Trojan on Friday, 4/28/2017:

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HIPAA, MPLS, and Encryption

May 3, 2017 Jared Hall General, HIPAA No Comments

Recently, I was asked a question. “If I use MPLS, do I need to do encryption to be HIPAA compliant?” Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is different things to different people, depending upon the networks involved. In this context, it was a Metropolitan Ethernet (Metro-E) network being provided by a local cable company. So, the answer […]

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Jared and the VAX

May 2, 2017 Jared Hall Humor, Tales and Stories No Comments

Sometimes LinkedIn pesters you to do things. I wrote a recommendation to a great guy I knew from my old Timeplex days, Thaddeus B. Here’s a good story that shows Thad’s character. I had moved to Clearwater, FL from D.C. and in 1991, needed access to S/W Engineering’s system to download PAL code. I sent […]

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WordPress and the Hacks Thereof

May 2, 2017 Jared Hall Internet Security, WordPress No Comments

On Thursday, 2/23/2017 a client’s WordPress got hacked.   It wasn’t even noticed until a significant amount of spam was observed to be spewing forth from the server at the end of March.  Suffice to say, that one little hack resulted in another, then another, until there was the corruption of a whole lot of data. […]

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Email Security: Trim Those Distribution Lists

April 29, 2017 Jared Hall General No Comments

It is very important these days to keep a small attack surface, both personally and professionally.  When you get a “User unknown” message back, delete that person from your Email distribution lists.  Too many companies keep names in their lists forever.  That is a really bad idea. When a domain name expires, it is very […]

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Spectrum Networks: Regulate as a Carrier?

April 29, 2017 Jared Hall General, Humor No Comments

Recently, I replied to a LinkedIn fellow’s post regarding SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) versus MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching).   In cable transmission parlance, MPLS is sometimes referred to as “Metropolitan Ethernet” or “Metro-E”.  This is defined in the DOCSIS 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) standard.  I replied with the comic up […]

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Meaningful Use vs. Actual Use

April 28, 2017 Jared Hall HIPAA, Humor No Comments

This is a Healthcare graphic I created 2-1/2 years ago. It might be old, but it’s still good. Share this with your favorite doc.

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Edward Snowden: The Fool

April 28, 2017 Jared Hall Spy vs. Spy 1 Comment

Introduction There’s not much good I can say of Edward Snowden except that to his credit, his document releases served as a wake-up call to all manufacturers, service providers, and the average American. So, the NSA is performing wide-scale surveillance; is that really something new? Does anybody remember ECHELON, from back in the early 2000s? […]

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Network Monitoring for Dummies

April 27, 2017 Jared Hall Humor No Comments

LinkedIn and SolarWinds suggested this book just for me. Imagine that! I added comment #5: “Yes, I’m stupid. Please send me the book.”

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