Archive for January, 2007

Training

Recently I have been taking various training courses and tests covering different aspects of computing and network security.  I’d like to share some of my experience and opinions here.

Brainbench:  I took the free Computer Forensics, and Network Security tests they offered.  These were fairly comprehensive tests, and I thought they gave me a pretty decent [...]

2.1

You might not notice it by looking, but we’re running 2.1 now.  It appears no functionality was lost.

Tidbits

A news item from SANS today.  Those of you running Sun Java JRE may want to ensure you are removing old versions upon upgrading, as any Java applet can go ahead and request what version of JRE it wants, making your upgrade effort for naught.  The diary entry includes links to install/uninstall instructions.
Also over at SecurityFocus there [...]

Updates

I’ve changed things around again, the theme is different, and we’re on 2.0.7 now.  Although 2.1 comes out very soon, so you’ll likely see some more changes.
I am currently studying for a whole slew of certs this year.  GSEC this week, Linux+ next month.  I will hopefully be attending the SANS track that will be [...]