As a disclaimer: I used to be a LastPass customer up until last year and have since cancelled my subscription and moved to 1Password where I became a certified partner. Some observations below are based on a hypothesis, mainly because LastPass has not provided the information. Today LastPass provided some more insight in the breach […]
As you may have seen, the first release of my book was published in late September, and I\’ve received a great deal of positive feedback. To the ones who have provided me the constructive feedback, I am most grateful, and I\’ll make sure these are addressed in the 2023 release. One of the most asked
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OK, first off, \”It wasn\’t me !!!\” Even though the title may indicate otherwise. Just in case you\’re not in Australia and have no idea what this is about. Optus is Australia\’s second-largest Telco, with around 11 million subscribers. On September 22nd 2022 they suffered a major data breach where it was announced that PII
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When I asked a buddy of mine, who is a fairly prolific author, what his advice is when I asked him I wanted to write a book, he said \”Don\’t\”. During the process I sometimes wished I\’d taken that advice, but as it progressed and neared completion I did feel a real sense of satisfaction.
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The standpoint of getting notified when events happen in SAN environments at all costs may need to be reviewed. As many of you know the Broadcom and Cisco switches can customise various thresholds in their respective FOS and NX-OS operating systems. Brocade uses the MAPS framework which follows a policy based setup.
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As you can read in my previous articles (here, here and here) having a physical issue on any of you FC links is detrimental to your entire FC infrastructure. Not only does it corrupt frames and primitives but is also resulting in traffic flow issues which may even propagate to other fabrics which even have
PortFencing – the hard or soft way? Read More »
About two months ago I received my new shiny Marshall Stanmore multiroom smartspeaker. I\’ve been dubbing between this one and a Sonos for a long time but when i read that Sonos were planning to build software that basically bricks your system just because \”It was old\” I decided to get a Marshall. Now, this
Marshall Stanmore Multiroom smartspeaker. A review Read More »
So the final nail is in the coffin. Brocade Network Advisor is being put to rest. The juggling of Java code to the ever expanding demand of functions, features and other capabilities was no longer sustainable. Oracle starting to charge for Java would\’ve made the decision even easier. The replacement is SANNav (No I don\’t
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Opening up the Australian news homepage I stumbled across this article Illegal Netflix-style Popcorn Time could lead to trouble for users Since I like movies and watch them via my Australian FOXTel movie package my curiosity was triggered. It turns out the PopcornTime program is a collector of torrent links and combines the links found
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Ok, I have to admit, I\’ve been criticizing the F1 circus for a while now and for good reason. Ever since my father took me to a race in Zeltweg, Austria (yes the current A1 Ring before it was shortened) in 1978 I\’ve been following the F1 seasons very closely. It has always been exciting
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