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. Obtaining remote root shell on a SOHO router

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 18 Sept. 2013
    • Section: General

    This paper details the various strategies Zach pursued in search of an exploitable 0-day... Read More

  2. Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides

    The guides are designed to give instructions and recommendations for securing Mac OS X and for maintaining a secure computer... Read More

  3. Firebrand reveals winner of Free Training for Life

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 13 Sept. 2013
    • Section: News

    After seven months and over 18,000 entrants, Firebrand Training ‘s Frank Højgaard, Managing Director is happy to announce Joseph Guthrie as the winner of their Free Training For Life (FTFL) competition. A prize worth over £1 million*... Read More

  4. Outage Analyzer

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 Sept. 2013
    • Section: Monitoring

    Track Web Service Outages in Real Time... Read More

  5. Last Chance to Register for the MS Exchange CON 2013 Virtual Conference

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 11 Sept. 2013
    • Section: News

    Only one day left to register for Exchange CON 2013, the annual online gathering of IT Strategists, Domain Experts, and Microsoft MVPs presenting the latest strategies, new technologies and proven solutions to manage, enhance and support the MS Exchange 2013 enterprise environment. This virtual live event takes place on Thursday, September 12, 2013... Read More

  6. Cloud CLI

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 10 Sept. 2013
    • Section: Command-line

    Graphical user interfaces are great, but nothing beats the expressiveness of the command line!... Read More

  7. Mining for New C&C Domains

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

    Mining for New C&C Domains in Live Networks with Adaptive Control Protocol Templates... Read More

  8. GFI Software Launches Free Asset Tracking for SMBs

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

    With Free Asset Tracking Forever, smaller organizations can simplify and cut the cost of auditing PCs on and off-site by moving management into the cloud... Read More

  9. September Newsletters Teaser

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 4 Sept. 2013
    • Section: General

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

  10. 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V v2.0 – now with Network Security Monitoring

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 2 Sept. 2013
    • Section: News

    5nine Software, the only vendor delivering agentless/host-based management and security for Windows Server and Hyper-V has released 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V v2.0 – now with Network Security Monitoring... Read More