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My Server's been hacked - What do I do now? Pt 1.'

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Introduction In this series of posts I’m revisiting an answer to a question that appeared on Server Fault way back in 2011. I’m pleased to say that it’s been viewed over 100,000 times, and I like to think its helped a few of them. But it’s time to look again. Since I wrote that post, there have been some huge intrusions, such as the well known Ashely Madison, Anthem Medical Data and JP Morgan breaches that affected millions of people.

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IT Science vs. IT Religion. Again

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

What we’re going to here is go back. Way back. A long time ago, I made a brief comment on Mr Angry’s blog article about project managment disasters where I suggested a reason for the difference between a high level management view of IT projects vs. a lower level IT “Engineer” view of those projects. Mr Angry spun my comment into an entire article and made quite a few good points about how people at different levels look at these kinds of projects.

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