I have decided to make some of my old (and new) tools and scripts available to the community.
The first (6 years old but still useful) tool is my SMTP Open Relay Tester. This small standalone Windows console application Read more
In this short post, I’ll explain one of the techniques to monitor whether a modem is listening for incoming calls on a machine, using Operations Manager 2007. Assuming that you may have some modems that get turned on when Read more
As far as I know, there are no free Management Packs available for monitoring Juniper/Netscreen firewalls with Operations Manager 2007. Catching snmp traps and syslog events seems to be the only "easy"/free way to monitor what is going on Read more
CyberArmor is a really excellent personal firewall. The CyberArmor suite consists of a Policy Server (and Policy Manager) used to create policies, a CyberServer (used to capture logs and alarms, optional), a Secure Ping Server (optional) and an MSDE Read more
Every admin knows by now that using Active Directory as the central authentication database allows for a lot of possibilities in terms of user account and security management. Keeping internal as well as external users in one and the Read more
Today, I will explain the (easy) steps to set up a route-based IPSec VPN tunnel between a Juniper Netscreen firewall/VPN device and a remote Cisco device (such as Cisco ASA)
If you are looking for more generic information on Read more
As most of the bigger players in the firewall market, Juniper/Netscreen SreenOS based firewalls allow you to use/enforce/require authentication for various reasons :
In a default Read more
Updating from 2003 to 2003 R2 & implementing Exchange are 2 common administrative tasks which both require a schema update. Since I’ve mentioned "updating from 2003 to 2003 R2", I’ll take the opportunity to add some "notes from the Read more
Designing a distributed/international Active Directory is certainly the most important piece of a successful AD implementation. One of the issues that should be dealt with is whether you want to allow other people to be Enterprise/Domain Admin or not. Read more
Today, I will explain how you can create your own lzm modules & patch the backtrack 2 final ISO file (by adding your new module).
First of all, get a fresh copy of the bt2final.iso file from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html
Write Read more
