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. Amazon’s Cloud service new DNS Failover features

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 June 2013
    • Section: General

    Now Amazon is offering DNS failover also for web applications behind its Elastic Load Balancers (ELC) service which was impossible to configure few days ago!... Read More

  2. Amount of idle time required before suspending a session

    Playing around with idle time settings for SMB sessions... Read More

  3. 10 tips for cyber security

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 24 May 2013
    • Section: General

    The UK Federation for Small Businesses (FSB) published a report about cyber security best practices focusing on small and micro businesses... Read More

  4. Call for papers about Botnets

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 22 May 2013
    • Section: General

    Botconf’13 – Call for papers... Read More

  5. Is your ICS well protected?

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 20 May 2013
    • Section: News

    The oil-and-gas sector is one of the most heavily targeted industries for cyber-attacks... Read More

  6. Skype is reading everything you write

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 17 May 2013
    • Section: General

    According to the German security firm Heise Security, Microsoft monitors users’ instant messages and SMSs on Skype... Read More

  7. Microsoft Security Updates for May 2013

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 16 May 2013
    • Section: General

    May’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft contain two critical security updates linked to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer... Read More

  8. ITIL framework online resource

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 14 May 2013
    • Section: General

    The service desk is a single point of contact (SPOC) for end users who need assistance/help... Read More

  9. The world’s largest library

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 13 May 2013
    • Section: General

    ‘The Internet has often been called the world’s largest library with all the books on the floor’... Read More

  10. SSID Sniffer tool

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 10 May 2013
    • Section: General

    A tool called iSniff GPS is able to capture packets broadcasted by iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices as they connect to Wi-Fi networks and then queries the retrieved network names on wigle.net to determine possible locations... Read More

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