Why the hell would you have the St. Patrick’s day parade a week early!?

What a joke.

Its unfortunate when a customer/vendor relationship goes to the dogs and sometimes it can be detrimental for the parties involved.

That’s the situation my company is in right now. We have a service provider who has allowed (as we have as well) the relationship to come to such a point where both sides spend more time posturing and bickering than they do maintaining a healthy, productive business relationship. (more…)

First and foremost I have to say that flying to London and only getting two hours of crummy sleep on the plane sucks. Adding insult to injury; the local office in London was pretty warm inside, so sitting in front of a laptop and sweating from the heat didn’t keep me awake and sharp at all. I went back to the hotel at 3:00 where I held out ’till 9:00 then crashed hard.

But before I could crash and more to the point, the thing that kept me up, was my least-favorite service provider giving us grief yet again. I’ve blogged (ranted) plenty about these guys in the past. Stupid things they’ve done include requesting us to open our firewall so that they can troubleshoot their problems easier, directly connecting their management network to our network, and more (I’m looking for previous posts to link here, bear with me). I met with their CISO and Director of Security at RSA to personally provide my grievances, yet they still toss us aside like the proverbial red-headed-stepchild. (more…)

If you are still allowing executable attachments past your mail server then you deserve what ever malware gets into your systems.

Yesterday, VNUNET.com reported the following (possibly FUD?): (more…)

Last weekend I wrote a post in response to one of Richard Bejtlich’s posts on his blog, in which he actively requested input and anticipated getting disagreeable opinions. I have just such an opinion and expressed it both on my blog and his. (more…)