Secure the future – have a change of mind!

Albert Zenkoff
2014-09-24
Management, atomization, civilization, costs, economics, justify, long term, management, mindset, necessity, profit, profitable, secure future, security, separation, short-sighted, survival

The future of the enterprise can be secured provided that it is properly organized and operated with full understanding of its economics. The current concentration on “profit here and now” is extremely harmful to the survival of the economy of the world as a whole and every given enterprise in particular. Why is that? There ...

More on WordPress xmlrpc denial of service attacks

Albert Zenkoff
2014-09-08
Technology, apache, attack, conditions, denial of service, DOS, protection, rewrite, rewrite_mod, rules, service, user agent, WordPress, xmlrpc

The attacks on WordPress using xmlrpc.php service are rather common. I already mentioned that you could filter out unwanted user-agents using the redirect capability of Apache. That would, however, take care only of obvious cases, where you see that this particular user-agent could not possibly be your reader. What do we do if the user-agent ...

Dark alleys of cybersecurity

Albert Zenkoff
2014-09-01
Society, assessment, awareness, cybersecurity, cyberspace, danger, dark alley, internet, security, situation

The security of the so-called “cyberspace” has deteriorated beyond belief. Some people tell me that my stories are far-fetched and that I view the security and computer industry with some sort of a depressing negativism. I disagree. The problem is, I am trying to stay positive and optimistic. My tales rarely go to the full ...

Secure the future – have a change of mind!