SSLStrip

MITM attack for stealing login credentials and such.

http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=214502801

Home Wireless Video Phone where are you?

I was thinking about getting a wireless video phone. I was surprised to find out that there does not seem to be much out there for the home market. D-Link has has a model, but you need to plug it into your TV. I was thinking of one whole unit.

ASUS makes a Skype Video Phone that is wireless:

http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/videophones/

You have to have a Skype account for that one. I don't think that you can call by IP address.

The Verizon Hub is the "Home Phone Reinvented" No Video though, but this is sort of what I am envisioning:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/vzhub/overview.jsp?lid=//global//phones+and+accessories//verizon+hub

I am really surprised that the market is not flooded with these types of devices yet for the home user.

Some cool features would be:

SD card and USB slot so that it would double as a digital picture frame
The ability to connect an antenna for longer range
Touch Screen
Wall Mountable
Voice Activation
A Remote

One of these days I guess

Hide Ubuntu Panels with Shortcut!

Here is a great script and instructions on how to create a shortcut key combination to hide the panels on your desktop.

http://reachbeyondgrasp.blogspot.com/2007/04/hide-and-show-panels-with-keyboard.html

This is great because I've got a small screen.

You can rename a Windows 2008 Domain, Unless you have Exchange

You can do this in 2008 with Rendom.exe, which is supposed to come bundled with 2008 now. It doesn't work if you want to rename the domain after Exchange has been installed. Apparently once you run forest and domain prep, the domain is embedded into the schema and cannot be changed. Same story as 2003.

Unconnected Sockets not implemented

So I ran into an issue where I can no longer connect to an ASA using ASDM on my laptop. It appears that a java update is the culprit.

I found my answer here:

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccnp/38038-java-update-breaks-asdm.html

It looks you can update ASDM to a newer version to fix.

Terminal Services 2008 Gateway, No Change Password?

I did my first MS TS 2008 Deployment the other day with the TS Gateway. The published application feature is really nice. If you don't want users to have access to the desktop on your TS server this feature is a must. However I ran into one major limitation, they can't change their password. Their is currently no way for users to change their password through the TS Gateway alone. I heard they may be releasing this functionality with R2 for 2008. In the meantime I've come up with a not so perfect but semi workable solution. I copied the issadmpwd directory from an Exchange 2003 server and imported onto one of my 2003 servers with IIS for this network. I then created a link to the published web page and added it through the TS 2008 remote app manager. Users now at least have a link to a web page that they can launch to change their password.

There's some scripts out there that you can edit to notify user by e-mail before their password is set to expire. I haven't implemented any of them yet, but that seems like it may be a good way to handle the notification process.

Here's the MS link to getting the IISADMPWD site up and running:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555071