I'm sure this goes against every best practice, but when I'm doing a bunch of admin stuff i issue a sudo bash and open up a new bash shell with sudo privileges
Not uncommon, and I do that a bit too (I use sudo -i su) but one of the good things about that is that it still tracks your user, it does not treat you as root for auditing.
When I was first hanging my own shingle as an IT consultant we were suggesting to all of our clients that they should purchase and install AV everywhere.
Even in the 1990s that was ridiculous. How does someone manage to get enough money to start a business or hire an IT consultant but doesn't have the brain power to use AV?
#HelpDeskFail "“So I called up, told them I was new and I didn't understand how to get past [the portal],” the hacker told Motherboard. “They asked if I had a token code, I said no, they said ‘that's fine — just use our one.’”"
You mean they didn't crawl through the vents and hang from the ceiling over a pressure sensitive floor?
You forgot the egregious body shots of a woman crawling though "laser" lights.
Bright lasers, so that you can clearly see them and her, of course.
It would not be unlikely for the power of this workstation to be comparable to more than the processing capabilities of a fully populated Proliant DL580 quad CPU Xeon server.
I have it installed. Just dropped the forwarder on the firewall so far. So it alerts me whenever something gets by the first box.... no alerts so far (I'd knock on wood if I could.)
That's nice, but you'll have to convince me that this is news. Fiber network taps have been around for almost as long as fiber. With fiber you can monitor the drop in signal. That's always been the real differentiator, the fact that you can tell you've been tapped.
