Network Audit and Documentation, CENTREL Solutions Blog

I've recently been wondering about the security issues related to Siri. I know this has probably been blogged about before so I may be covering old ground however I just thought I'd discuss a few possible scenarios that can occur. Siri can be accessed from the lock screen and allows several commands to be executed. Though this is generally useful the scenarios I mentioned generally revolve around two problems. You're in a bar with someone you don't know very well, and leaving your phone on the table the person can find out personal information in the short time it takes you to goto the toilet. You lose your phone the person has plenty of time to get information from your phone including your home address. The severity of the issue depends on your settings however you can try the following Get directions to mum Send a message to mum (allows them to appear to be you) Call "Paul" or other common name Give me directions ...

Have you ever wanted to document your Backup Exec configuration? This is now possible with the upcoming release of XIA Configuration Server version 8.0. The system automatically detects and documents backup definitions, storage devices, jobs, media sets and media. The screenshot shows some of the information for a Full backup job. You can also run reports against all Backup Exec servers in your environment to see how your Backup Exec installations are configured throughout the enterprise. For more information see the following page. http://www.centrel-solutions.com/XIAConfiguration/Capabilities.aspx?capability=BackupExecServer

As part of our ongoing testing we've found another issue with the Backup Exec PowerShell API. When using the Get-BENotificationRecipient cmdlet if the LimitEmailNotification setting is enabled and the maximum notifications or time window is set to 1 The PowerShell cmdlet incorrectly reports the values as 0, when values other than 1 are selected the PowerShell cmdlets appear to return the correct values.