Phishing Attacks

With the holiday season upon us all of those emails with special offers may sound like an appealing way to save some cash. However, be aware that many emails sent around are from hackers running phishing scams to gain access to your personal information.

One easy way to safeguard against this type of thing is to not follow the links provided in emails. Hackers have gotten sufficticated enough to make these emails have the look and feel of a legitimate email. Instead of clicking the links directly, you can instead go to the website and browse to the special offers that they have available this holiday season.

While not all email is malicious, it's better to be safe than sorry.

The New Efficiency

I ran across this Microsoft site, not sure how new it is.

The New Efficiency

It's full of videos about the new Microsoft products and videos with some of the consumers of these products. There are also some partner videos from companies such as Cisco, HP, Intel, etc...

Poke around, some of the information is sales or fluff, some is informative, and some is just interesting.

Fedora 12 install

I was excited to get Fedora 12 installed when I got home from work and thought I would share my experiences with Fedora 12 as I go.

I chose to use the netinst media, as I usually do, to perform my install. I booted up the CD and the installed appeared to be about the same as Fedora 11. The whole install only took about 45 minutes over my cable modem connection.

So far the interface feels the same as usual and my first install was on a desktop so I won't get to play with the new wireless features just yet, but I do have a laptop I plan to install Fedora 12 on.

Admittedly, I really don't have much of value to report at this time, but I was pretty excited to be up and running and posting.

Stayed tuned for more.

Syslog

I have been looking around for an easy to setup and use syslog server and recently tried a couple in a production environment with a handful of switches, WAPs, and a firewall. The two I installed on a Windows 2003 server were Kiwi and Splunk.

Kiwi had a simple install and you were off and running. Splunk had an easy install with some minor configuration then you were up and running.

Kiwi was nice because everything is color coded and easy to read, but I found when I attempted to apply filters it would time out or crash the service all together.

Splunk isn't as easy to read, but has all of the information there and seems more robust. I can search on multiple different items and the results are returned fairly quick.

I think for a light logging Kiwi is good because all of the data is right there on the main pane, but for heavy logging with a lot of querying I think I'd go with Splunk.

Fedora Docs

Need to know how to do something in Fedora? The Fedora documentation page is a good place to start. They have documentation for multiple versions and it is organized in a way that makes it easy to find what you need and offers multiple languages and document types.

Fedora Docs

RedHat Features

I'm not sure how old this video is, but it is a pretty good video on how features make it into RedHat.

Video

FeatureList Fedora 12

Here is a link to the Fedora 12 feature list.