George Chetcuti’s Blog

Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts

With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.

9 Command-line
168 General
46 Implementation
27 Monitoring
299 News
99 Products
99 Security
5 Troubleshooting
16 Virtualization

  1. NSA to cut system administrators by 90%

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 Aug. 2013
    • Section: News

    The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information... Read More

  2. Authentication Vulnerability in Microsoft Yammer Social Network

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 9 Aug. 2013
    • Section: General

    Yammer is a secure, private social network for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups... Read More

  3. Webinar - Unlocking IT with Big Data

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 8 Aug. 2013
    • Section: General

    HP Software Web Event - Driving the New Style of IT... Read More

  4. Test-drive Amazon’s cloud services

    Learn AWS with new Self-Paced Labs... Read More

  5. August Newsletters Teaser

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 5 Aug. 2013
    • Section: News

    Some discussion points from ISAserver.org, VirtualizationAdmin.com, MSExchange.org, WindowsNetworking.com and WindowSecurity.com August monthly newsletters... Read More

  6. Are you still running Windows XP and Office 2003?

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 2 Aug. 2013
    • Section: Products

    Take action now to remain on supported versions of Windows and Office, and begin your planning and application testing before end of support... Read More

  7. Microsoft enhances its Active Protections Program (MAPP)

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 1 Aug. 2013
    • Section: News

    Employing a “give to get” model, the community will benefit when data they provide is enriched by aggregating it with data from others... Read More

  8. Extraction of private encryption keys from GnuPG

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 30 July 2013
    • Section: General

    GnuPG in its current form is not safe for a multi-user system or for any system that may run untrusted code... Read More

  9. Happy SysAdmin Day!

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 26 July 2013
    • Section: News

    WindowsNetworking team wishes all the best to all system administrators out there... Read More

  10. Microsoft Windows Kerberos PKINIT Man In The Middle Vulnerability

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 25 July 2013
    • Section: General

    Microsoft has released fixes to address this issue on supported platforms... Read More

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