MikroTik local link up / down on high traffic

One of our RouterBOARD routers – MikroTik RB750 (mipsbe with Atheros 7240 switch) running the version v6.35.2 (latest version) have been constantly crashing on high network load. One particularly interesting note is that it crashed on traffic that goes through the internal switch but not on other traffic. The log file shows the following pattern: …

WordPress still insecure by design

Some major WordPress design flaws have led to widespread attacks on our and your servers. The only hope is reasonably long and strong passwords or WordPress security plugins. The first flaw. By default WordPress have enabled “feature”, when you visit your blog with author query string appended, it nicely reveals your usernames. For example, if …

If your source code is a trade secret, then make sure that employees and management knows that too…

When management tries to save money, and there are no formal policies and procedures, then don’t get surprised when data leaks occur… Ungrounded Lightning shares the following story at Slashdot. Reminds me of story about a graphics chip company I’ll leave the company name out (mostly to protect my source B-) ) This was in …