January 5, 2010 - 10:51 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 19 comments
I know the feeling of your secure network being compromised by an end user… Passwords do fall into the wrong hands and then what do you do? Scenarios start running through my head and I make a mental list of all the passwords and system configs that need to be changed. These aren’t fun times [...]
January 3, 2010 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in Questions | 18 comments
You know the saying, “You can’t have too much RAM or too much storage.”
Well, there is at least one case where a lot of RAM can cause problems.
My current desktop had 1 Gig of RAM and I recently bought an additional 2 Gigs since the price was so low. (And of course I used [...]
October 26, 2009 - 6:30 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | 9 comments
As avid Windows users you have seen how applications add right click menu options. For instance Mcafee antiVirus adds a shortcut to Scan For Threats in the selected folder or Resco’s options to encrypt or de-crypt a folder.
Now you want to add useful right click options for yourself and AtA is here to show you [...]
October 15, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Tips/Tricks | 5 comments
Everyone knows your friendly neighborhood admin is all about shortcut keys and uber productivity.
I don’t know how I never found this one before… Check it out you have your quick launch buttons displayed next to your start menu for easy access.
By default you have Show Desktop, IE and whatever other applications you installed. Now you [...]
August 11, 2009 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Reviews | 15 comments
We have used many different retail programs to recover accidentally or maliciously deleted files off of our PC, Digital Camera or Mobile device. We have tried a few free ones and they bring us back to the old saying… You get whatcha pay for! As such we never really covered the topic here on Ata, [...]
July 30, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Reviews | 10 comments
We have reviewed Crucial Memory in the past here when we gave away a 2gb memory module to one of our readers. So we were happy to plug them again when Jenny from San Fransisco wrote us asking:
Yo Admin can you tell me what kind of memory is in my PC without me having to [...]
July 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, Free Download | 6 comments
Do you hate looking for and downloading drivers on every re-format?
Well if you can get to your desktop you should be able to run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your fresh clean formatted system! We covered something a little while [...]
June 1, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | No comments
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?
Think about it… How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said – I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?
How about Power Point [...]
April 16, 2009 - 7:56 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Questions | 5 comments
This morning we had a request for adding a “High Priority Folder”.
This would be a top level folder that shows up on your Windows desktop and in My Computer. Didn’t think you could do that? Well read on…
The folder we will be creating can not be removed – just like My Computer or My Documents. [...]
I had the pleasure of attempting to migrate a print server this weekend. I mean I had to figure out a quick and efficient way to install the 70 some odd printers on a new server. I was not going to be doing this manually that was for shit sure! I had some junior admins [...]
February 25, 2008 - 6:44 am
Changing the boot order and protecting the BIOS are a good idea, but the attack also allows for physically removing the RAM and putting it in another machine, so changing the BIOS won't help there.
While these kinds of attacks are interesting, I think if you are facing an adversary who would go to this length, or one where you would seriously consider needing Truecrypt's plausible deniability feature, you are really in a whole different league from most encryption users. That's a situation where the attacker has targeted YOU and/or YOUR data. That is a much rarer occurrence than an attack that is random or someone just looking to steal the hardware.
In those cases any level of encryption would be enough.
It's similar to car theft. Any type of alarm or protection will generally protect you against random shopping mall attacks because there is always going to be an easier target. But if the thief is a professional who has a reason to steal YOUR car or the specific type of car you drive, there's not a whole lot you can do unless you want to spend a huge amount of money and effort.
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February 25, 2008 - 9:49 am
Damn Karl, you scooped me. I was going to blog about this today! I read about this on Friday. Watching the video, it still doesn't get me too worried. In order for someone to do this, they will have to do it close, and will not have much time to do it, even if they froze your ram with the air duster, that only gives them what 10 – 20 minutes of time to hack your stuff? That includes getting your laptop to a secluded spot to do the hack, freezing your ram, then booting up with their boot disk. Someone will have to go through a lot to do it. Besides, the researchers haven't released the source code, or the software for their hacking software. It doesn't look likely to be a wide spread problem yet.
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February 25, 2008 - 10:06 am
Ram dumping tools are available on the web! If you can boot to ubuntu or a live distro you can use the tools on the machine to drop the encryption code (sometimes) Maybe the app that these guys built can do it better but once you have the info dumped from the ram you do not have a time limit @ all!
We will be giving this a try in the next week over @ AtA labs. Stay tuned loyal readers!
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February 25, 2008 - 11:19 am
Let me know how it turns out.
-EDP
http://www.bauer-power.net “>http://www.bauer-power.net
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February 25, 2008 - 11:19 am
Let me know how it turns out.
-EDP
http://www.bauer-power.net “>http://www.bauer-power.net
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February 25, 2008 - 1:06 pm
So I reposted this here: http://tinyurl.com/yuhknc “>http://tinyurl.com/yuhknc
You ask what do we use to lock down our systems, well on my work desktop I have the new Truecrypt installed, which is one of the apps tested in the video. I also used to use Compusec (http://tinyurl.com/25shro) “>http://tinyurl.com/25shro) on my personal laptop, but did away with that when I switched to Ubuntu. I guess it doesn't matter what we use anymore huh ;-)
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February 25, 2008 - 1:06 pm
So I reposted this here: http://tinyurl.com/yuhknc “>http://tinyurl.com/yuhknc
You ask what do we use to lock down our systems, well on my work desktop I have the new Truecrypt installed, which is one of the apps tested in the video. I also used to use Compusec (http://tinyurl.com/25shro) “>http://tinyurl.com/25shro) on my personal laptop, but did away with that when I switched to Ubuntu. I guess it doesn't matter what we use anymore huh ;-)
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February 25, 2008 - 1:14 pm
I went to leave you a comment Paul and it didn't work out for me. The ID timed out trying to save my comment. I was in FF 2. What I wanted to say was:
Thanks for the link and your 2 cents! :)
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February 25, 2008 - 1:20 pm
I got your comment. Yours does that to me too. If you refresh the page after you see that error, you will see your comment. Makes sense though, Intense Debate is still in beta.
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