Monthly Archives: November 2005

Low-Buck Memory Upgrade for Cisco Pix 515

By scott | Published: November 30, 2005
If you have a Cisco PIX 515 and want to upgrade to the new 7.0 software, you are required to upgrade memory first. By default, the pix comes with 64Mb memory unless you buy a unit after the 7.0 software became generally available. What I am about to describe is by no means a recommendation [...]
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CentOS 4 Security Assessment

By scott | Published: November 22, 2005
Last Article – I went through the basic installation of installing CentOS 4.2 using the single Server Install CD. Since this machine was to be used on the Internal network and I didn’t really want the performance overhead of a host based firewall – I decided to not enable the firewall during the installation. [...]
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Installing CentOS 4

By scott | Published: November 21, 2005
I am writing this as a series. This particular article will discuss just the operating system installation. I will follow with some add-on articles that deals with setting up a centralized log host. The server used in this project is a Dell 1650 with (2) PIII 1.2 Processors and 2G of Ram. Disk [...]
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Automate modifying SNMP strings on Windows computers

By scott | Published: November 18, 2005
In this world of auditing and compliance, if you don’t have policies documented to change anything that is remotely related to a system password on a regular basis - I would highly encourage you to give it serious consideration. Let’s say you have a bunch of Windows Servers in your Data Center running the SNMP service. Let’s also say that they are running the < *gulp*> default community strings. It is definately time to change them. This script will help you automate this process.
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