by Greg Scott | Dec 27, 2024 | Who Says IT is Boring?
My phone rang the Saturday morning before Christmas, 2024, and I met Dave, a friend of a friend. Dave’s old desktop computer had died and he bought a new Windows 11 Dell Inspiron desktop from Best Buy, but he could not connect to the internet and could not load...
by Greg Scott | Nov 29, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Who Says IT is Boring?
In mid October, 2024, a few weeks before this writing, I posted “A SYN flood DDoS attack up close and personal.” In a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, somebody orchestrates lots of systems to flood a victim with traffic, denying internet...
by Greg Scott | May 5, 2022 | Who Says IT is Boring?
Back in the 1980s, when I worked for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the second-largest computer company in the world, a call came in from Delco-Remy Electronics, a division of General Motors at that time. It seemed the hard drive on a refrigerator-sized system...
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