IBM Remote Management Authentication via Active Directory

викMost high end IBM hardware comes with a RMM (Remote Management Module) if you ever hope to manage the equipment from a location other than right in front of the machine.  Managing the local accounts on the system is painful at best, and a more secure method is to integrate in to an already existing

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Cell phone Spyware – Super Scary

Just in time for Halloween (ok, a few days late).. Super Scary details that can be obtained from some of these spyware software applications that install discretely on smart phones.  Investigating in to a potential security breech, it was a huge eye opener to discover that these applications silently gather a multitude of information off

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Squid + NTLM authentication failing in a Windows 2008 Domain Environment

Even the latest versions of Samba via yum updates has troubles talking to Windows 2008 Domain Controllers.  A partial solution was found here. Upon an upgrade to the AD environment, winbind starts throwing errors like the one below: Aug 16 16:20:38 ourhost winbindd[2459]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine OURDOMAINCONTROLLER.ourdomain.com pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x800areturned critical error. Error was

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