JeffBolden.net Ramblings from a IT Professional and NetSec Geek

30Oct/090

BoldTech Solutions

BoldTech Solutions

Just wanted to put in a quick plug for my current endeavor. BoldTech Solutions is a small Technology Consulting and Managed Services practice serving the needs of the SMB market in the Portland/Vancouver area. We provide innovative solutions to your small business IT problems and help you keep your focus on your business, not your technology.

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29Sep/090

New Microsoft A/V Out of Beta – Suprisingly great!

For those of you not aware, Microsoft has been quitely testing the successor to their discontinued OneCare AntiVirus product, named Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems that it is out of beta as of today and is available for free download. I've actually been running this as a beta on several of my machines here at the secret bunker, and have been pleasantly surprised on how good a product it is. I'm a big fan of the free Avast! and AVG home products for their small footprint and excellent detection capabilities, but thought I would put SE through it's paces to see how it worked.

29Sep/090

Metasploit 3.3 stable almost ready, now with screenshotty goodness!

Every Pen Tester's favorite platform Metasploit is coming up on v3.3 stable, and there are some really cool new features added to the pentester toolkit. One of the interesting new exploits added is the currently unpatched SMB2 flaw in Vista and Windows Server 2008. Disabling the protocol is the only way to mitigate that particular nasty at the moment.

One of my favorites is the new screenshot tool. Nothing impacts a final report to the CEO like a screenshot of his desktop while he's playing solitaire! =)

Busted!

Busted!

23Sep/090

A Stick Figure Guide to AES Encryption

Ever wondered how AES encryption works? Take a look at Jeff Moser's excellent stick-figure guide and be enlightened!

10Sep/090

The Future of the Security Industry – Bruce Schneier

I stumbled across a video of Bruce Schneier's excellent talk at OWASP on the future of the IT Security industry. It's an excellent discussion on how IT security is quickly becoming a commodity and more security is being outsourced.

Bruce Schneier: The Future of the Security Industry: IT is Rapidly Becoming a Commodity from David Bryan on Vimeo.

You can see all the OWASP talks here.

25Mar/090

Where did you learn that word?!

So, I'm perusing the job sites the other day and my 13-year old son walks in, looks at the screen and says "Why is the S-word on there?!" I didn't catch it until he pointed it out, at which point I busted up laughing.

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Pretty much sums up the job market at the moment...

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16Mar/090

Looking for a CTO? Read this…

Great article by Charlie O'Donnell on attracting a talented CTO to your fledgling startup venture at that important early stage. I particularly like the opening sentence:

Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup.  When they ask, it often sounds like they're asking for a product off the shelf--like, "Where can I get some cheap folding chairs?"

Attracting a CTO to your startup | from This is going to be BIG - Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education.

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14Mar/090

Microsoft MCITP Boot Camp for the truly insane

Need a little getaway to bask in the glow of monitors for 12 days straight while taking 15 certification tests? Then look no further!

Microsoft MCITP Server and Enterprise Administrator Combo Boot Camp at Global Knowledge.

Sounds like the Bataan Death March to me... =)

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12Mar/090

Makeover time

Please excuse the mess, I'm currently cleaning house and doing some major remodeling of the site. The theme will be a mess for a few days as do some customization and add some things. Please let me know if you notice anything really out of whack...

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10Feb/090

BackTrack 4 Beta Public Released

The always excellent Backtrack security distro has released beta 4 today and the servers are swamped! I was lucky enough to get a completed download and have been testing it today. So far it's been very stable.

Get it here.