Intel/VMWare Meltdown FUBAR – fix worse than problem?

Posted on 17th January 2018 by Millennia

So here we are, just a couple of weeks since learning of the Spectre / Meltdown debacle welcoming all IT professionals to the New Year. Many of us have been busy patching as we get the releases, and already the news stories have popped up with scary tales. AMD were initially cocky against Intel when...

Security, Archived Posts, MS Windows, VWware

Security Advisory – Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities

Posted on 5th January 2018 by John Thorpe

This post is taken from security advisories released by Nutanix and Defiant regarding Spectre and Meltdown, and amended according to other information that has come to light about these vulnerabilities. In general the advice is to bring everything up to the latest patch level you can once a vendor i...

MS Windows, Archived Posts, Security

Time to make your IIS website SSL only

Posted on 17th October 2017 by John Thorpe

You may have noticed that more and more websites are now coming up as SSL secured. We recently secured https://blog.millennia.cloud on a permanent basis, and going forward will not provide any content unencrypted over standard HTTP. Because of open encryption offerings like Let’s Encrypt ...

Security, Archived Posts, Desktops, MS Windows

Security risks in leaving remote desktops disconnected

Posted on 6th October 2017 by John Thorpe

This is a re-blog of an article by Kevin Beaumont and shows a particularly nasty, but still valid, exploit of Remote Desktop can allow an attacker to not only gain access to your systems, but possibly gain full domain admin rights........

Networks, Archived Posts

Problems with uk.pool.ntp.org stability

Posted on 20th July 2017 by John Thorpe

The sudden emergence of NTP configuration errors on our Nutanix cluster when we knew we hadn't changed anything was baffling. This is how with the help of the Nutanix toolset we got to the bottom of it....