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No on Prop 8 Site Brought Down by DDOS Attack

No matter who you are voting for or what your political affiliation is there are some lines you shouldn’t cross. One of those is to stage a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the website of the opposing viewpoint. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to the website of the group against California’s Proposition 8 [...]

Still Using Your Routers Default Password? Better Change It

So you’re a sys admin and you’re at a clients place of business and you’re setting up their new Cisco router and wireless base station when suddenly everything does a hard reset and you’re left looking at the default login screen. Grab the manual and look up the default password that came with the router? [...]