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. More Than Half of IT Professionals Make Undocumented Changes to IT Systems - Netwrix Survey Finds

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 17 April 2014
    • Section: General

    Just 60% of Organizations have Change Management Controls in Place, Leaving 40% at Risk from Security Threats or System Downtime... Read More

  2. More on the 19 year old bug

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 25 Nov. 2014
    • Section: Security

    Although APT3 is well known for employing zero-day exploits in their attacks, recent activity has demonstrated that they will also attack targets with known exploits or social engineering... Read More

  3. More organizations move to Private Clouds

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 23 Aug. 2011
    • Section: News

    The University of Western Australia is shifting its 400 TB of data resources to private cloud. All of the University IT resources will now be hosted on the cloud while the connections between the cloud data centers and the University have been upgraded to 10Gbps. So what's the big fuzz? The move is quite big and the interesting part is... Read More

  4. More security features for Amazon AWS

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 22 May 2014
    • Section: Security

    Amazon AWS adds support for encryption of EBS data volumes and the associated snapshots... Read More

  5. More wearable technology walking through the office door

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 Oct. 2015
    • Section: Security

    IT Pros are concerned about Wearable Technology connected to company networks... Read More

  6. Mozilla Thunderbird Vulnerability

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 28 Jan. 2014
    • Section: Security

    The vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird email application 17.0.6 can result in multiple attack vectors on the client end which may eventually result in complete compromise of the end user system... Read More

  7. Mozilla increases rewards given to researchers

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 2 July 2015
    • Section: News

    Changes to the Firefox Bug Bounty Program... Read More

  8. Mozilla smartphone OS

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 20 April 2012
    • Section: News

    The Mozilla Foundation makers of the Firefox web browser will be releasing an operating system for mobile phones later on this year. The first handsets running Mozilla's "Boot to Gecko" (B2G) software will be available in Brazil on Telefonica Vivo's mobile network. Gary Kovacs, chief executive of Mozilla, said this openness would make a difference to the way applications on... Read More

  9. Mozy’s Data Shuttle

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 11 Oct. 2011
    • Section: Products

    Have you ever wondered how you can transfer a large data set to an online backup provider over a limited bandwidth? There's no need to saturate your limited bandwidth with the upload of the initial full data backup when moving your backup platform to the cloud. With Mozy's Data Shuttle service you will get a storage device, perform the initial... Read More

  10. MySQL 5.6 support on Amazon AWS

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 2 July 2013
    • Section: Products

    Amazon RDS now supports version 5.6 of MySQL... Read More

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