Here Paul Walsh discusses network security topics and whats happening at Protocol Solutions.
RSS FEED IDEMS: Protocol Solutions Network Security blog
- Wordpress Bug?
I am finding some posts are not saving the catagory, even when they are selected, when clicking save.
This is weird, going to find out if this is a result of too many tags being used or some other issue

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:57:00 +0000
- Links for 2008-01-30 [Digg]
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600
- Questions for RSS feed subscribers
If you are currently an RSS feed subscriber to one of our feeds, Paul Walsh would like to ask you:
(1) Do you prefer the feeds to be seperate?
(2) Or would you like all feeds from Protocol Solutions blog and website to be combined into one RSS feed?
Right now the feeds we have are:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/psarticles
and
http://feeds.feedburner.com/pspw
If you would [...]

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:27:20 +0000
- Protocol Solutions Press Release
A press release of Protocol Solutions has just been published. Readers of our RSS Article feed will already know this.
Subscribe to our RSS Article feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/psarticles
You can also read the press release at these locations :
http://www.pr9.net/comp/science/7194january.html
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/29219/
http://www.prlog.org/10048328-protocol-solutions-reveals-unknown-vulnerability-in-dreamweaver-8-0-2-flash-player.html
http://eworldwire.com/pressreleases/18122
http://www.eworldwire.com/newsroom/313332.htm

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:20:15 +0000
- Immunize against known spyware
A few clients have mentioned that they do not want to have to install spyware prevention (and similar tools), because they can be quite processor and ram intensive.
So here is a quick hack to immunize against known spyware for windows XP and Windows 2003. (they keyword is known! This will not work against new spyware [...]

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:08:47 +0000
- Protocol Solutions Blog Statistics
Checked the statistics again. Its official! The Protocol Solutions blog is getting twice as much traffic as the Protocol Solutions homepage!
The alexa Rank has gone from around 3.1 million to 1.5 million (remember with alexa the lower the number, the better, only 6 days ago it was 1.7 million). In Ireland we are in the [...]

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:41:56 +0000
- Patch Tuesday
Today is Patch Tuesday. We hope you havent forgotten to check and test for updates for Windows!

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:38:51 +0000
- Email to SMS
For people who have an 085 (meteor) number, did you know you can use your normal email client to send SMS messages for free?
All you do is write a normal email but in the To: line , just format it like this 085XXXXXXX@sms.mymeteor.ie
Then hit send.
This service is free, can can be handy, as not everyone [...]

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:03:33 +0000
- Windows Server Lock down registry hacks
Find Following Registry Key :
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters
Add Two D-Word Entries with Value 0 :
AutoShareServer
AutoShareWks
This prevents Administrative Shares if value is 0. ( the other way around if the value is 1 )
( Note : You will need to create the above keys if they are not in that location ! )

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:36:00 +0000
- Locking down wordpress
Just to be on the safe side, I decided to see if I could lock down our Wordpress installation.
I cannot claim credit for the way to go about locking it down. I actually got this info from several websites.
Here what you need to do to make Wordpress more secure and ensure that only your IP [...]

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:36:54 +0000
- Blog issues update (5)
Ok, All hyperlinks are now fixed on the blog. Please report if anything is causing an issue.

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:29:47 +0000
- Links for 2008-01-21 [Digg]
- Digital Rights will be gone from next month in Ireland
This is a 7 minute 55 second audio from Paul Walsh of Protocol Solutions. The first 4 minutes is background (the article is from the irish times and is read out my myself) and the last 4 mins is discussing some things about this that nobody else has considered.If you are living in Ireland, this could really affect you, please listen to this!
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600
- Links for 2008-01-16 [Digg]
- Microsofts' spy patent can monitor even your heartbeat
Every aspect of computer users’ lives — from their heartbeat to a guilty smile — could be monitored and immediately analysed under the futuristic system detailed in Microsoft’s patent application. The systems work not only through desktop or laptop computers but even through mobile phones or handheld PCs
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600
- Links for 2008-01-12 [Digg]
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600
- Links for 2008-01-09 [Digg]
- Charge Your AA Batteries With Your Drill
Turn your cordless drill into a hand crank to charge your dead AA batteries.
- Netsol Take Evil To A New Level
If you do a domain search on the Network Solutions site (and presumably any of the partner / related sites that use the same backend) and DON'T proceed with the registration NetSol "hold" the domain for you so you can't register it anywhere else!
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600