A “DHCP is Broken” story, and a Blast from the Past (or should I say “Storm” from the past), (Thu, Jul 14th)

This all started with a text from a client, that their network was down (that&#;x26;#;39;s how these always start). The first set of checks showed that the network had connectivity and there were both PCs and phones communicating. The client noted that their switches were all flashing “way more rapidly than usual” – like a fool I discounted that observation, because of course your switch LEDS flash rapidly right? (more on this later)

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Using Referers to Detect Phishing Attacks, (Wed, Jul 13th)

“Referers” are useful information for webmasters and system administrators that would like to have a better overview of the visitors browsing their websites. The referer is an HTTP header that identifies the address of the web page from which the resource has been requested.

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