Have you ever had to support users with a different national keyboard than yours? If so you may have noticed that national keyboards can vary quite a lot!? Anyway, here is a few links to graphical depictions of national keyboards, then you at least stand a fighting chance 🙂 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195104.aspx

I just read a news letter from OpenDNS in which they state that they are now offering a paid solution where you get granular control of blocked sites.  Basically this mean that you can allow yourself (or equally important persons 😉 to bypass all the site blocking your site otherwize uses..  That seem quite clever..

Sitation from the newsletter;
A lightweight and innovative approach to per-user access controls, OpenDNS Web content filtering empowers you to grant individuals on your network permission to bypass blocked pages. No appliance. No software. It works efficiently through the cloud.

arpgatewayEver heard about ARP spoofing or man in the middle attacks?  If not then this may not be for you, but if on the other hand “Yes” then here is a tool for you..

Our pal Irongeek has released this nifty small util “DecaffeinatID:” that will sit in your tray until it detects something nasty going on (like eg. attempted ARP spoofing of your default gateway) and then raise hell and bells to warn you.

Basically what it does it to monitor the MAC address of your default gateway, if this for some reason changes (which it never should) you will be warned and can take precautions.

Besides this ARP ‘shield’ the util offers a few other nifty security tricks, anyway check it out at;
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/decaffeinatid-simple-ids-arpwatch-for-windows

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