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Around nine WiFi VoIP handsets and phones have been scrutinised by leading security experts, who say that security problems range from potential denial-of-service attacks to more serious issues that allow “deep access” to the handset that lets unscrupulous individual read any sensitive information on the phone.

Such threats are inevitable. So whose responsibility is it to forestall them? it has been posited that if we see practices like this grow as these devices as used more widely then the manufacturers will only have themselves to blame when the security issues put people off VoIP altogether.

VoIP hacking is the modern days version of war dialing - a method of automatically scanning telephone numbers using a modem, usually ringing all telephone number in surrounding area to find where computers or fax machines are available, then attempting to access them by guessing passwords.

Still there are precautions users can take to protect themselves. Here’s a list of WiFi VOIP security issues, and some effective ways to guard against them:

Many points of attack:
As the VoIP phones get more sophisticated, so could the points of entry for would be hackers. Email, client Web browsers, Bluetooth, SMS, WiFi, media players, and image viewers could all provide a window of opportunity for hackers. Though users can use open-source and commercial tools to continually test their phones and networks, they’ll ultimately have to rely on vendors to also do thorough testing on these devices.

Targeting phones in public environments:
For example a Bluetooth scanner could be hidden at the entrance to a major airport or train station and be used to grab user data. It may be best to keep Bluetooth and other wireless features swicthed off when not needed.

Rogue access points:
Other than this when at the office or on the road, users will have to keep their guard up and scan for rogue access points. Unscrupulous individuals will set up access points to target specifically WiFi phones in a business environment as well as at conferences and other places business people like to get together. Decent device authentication and encryption can help provide protection here.

Targeted attacks:
Targeted attacks on specific voice-over-wireless networks may also be an issue, albeit one that the victims may try to downplay.

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These laptops have a particular price bracket and these brands know they don’t have to be price aggressively in this sector. This would be one of the few profit generating lines they have as they make nothing on numerous others due to the massive competition. Why would potential customers buy laptops like this? I believe big manufacturers have the marketing budgets to answer that. If I was a smaller system builder I would probably be thinking of plans to react to this kind of competition. I reckon once it gets marketed to the masses it will not have the same appeal. I think the ignorant automatically feel at ease by buying from a manufacturer they are familiar with. The laptop computers being released by brand name manufacturers are all competing for the best laptop status. In my point of view however, this is indeed a source of promise for the little players in retail. Majority of the time the pre built laptops are powerful however not fast enough and a couple of people don’t like that. These types of customers more often then not are well informed on the technology and can compare part for part. More often than not these kinds of prospects are more interested in the specs than the design.

This will be quite advantageous from the purchasers view. When it comes down to it the price will reduce more and more gamers will be able to afford such advanced technology. I say that somewhat hesitatingly however as the notebook computer market is a really fast changing market. High prices should stay and be expected with the newest laptops is what I’m thinking. Since the established brand manufacturers have already started introducing gaming laptops, I reckon we’ll have to be patient to see what develops.

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Hoffet:

There are numerous researchers who show the connections of the Illuminati to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Yeats after Crowley and Regardie) come because the Rothschilds include esotericists just as the De Medicis named St. Germain had set up the schooling system in Vienna for them as he passed the spy network and financial monopoly (These things are most connected.) to the Rothschilds. Most of these researchers do not get the esoterics behind the acts and organizations or see the Corpus Hermeticum translated and called De Brix for what this means. De Brix is like De Bruges, it is another translation of the Bruttii and a family that founded Rome and Britain which has been ruling and building sophisticated means of control or Empire ever since. These BEES include more than the ‘bees’ of Childeric which the Merovingian Napoleon put upon his Holy Roman Emperor’s investiture robe. They were in Egypt and are the Royal House of Mallia on Crete in 2200 BC.

There are some researchers who are cluing in to the inner sanctum of esoteric Heliopolitan or Luciferian (Druidic) Vatican types who are Hibernian double agents like St. Bernard or Robespierre, Rumford, Lafitte, Da Vinci, Dee, Columbus and all the rest.

It would appear I am the only researcher who has connected Hoffet to both Saunire and Plantard de St. Clair (Sinclair BEE) who both were leaders of The Priory of Sion like Da Vinci. This is the major reason I wrote a book on Saunire. Because I am called an alchemist by high Rosicrucians I have known, I am in a position to know what Hoffet studied and one or more of the techniques he used in his position in the Documentation branch for the Vatican. Bibliomancy and genetic encoded information are just part of the arts and artifices in alchemy for many millennia.

So when you read about Sauniere being introduced around the esoteric salons of Paris by this man you are getting close to the true Da Vinci Code. It is all about Synarchy! But that does not mean George Bernard Shaw and his London School of Economics venture was not well-intentioned, anymore than it means Annie Besant (One of a very few female Masons) did no good work with Krishnamurti or in establishing India. It does not mean Yeats or Stein knew the role they played in this Hegelian Dialectic that truly is ‘Charmed’. But I am pretty sure Hoffet and his ilk have used The Charm of Making on these people just as it has been used on me. It does make me wonder what role Plantard played at Lake Leman with Kissinger, Baruch and the Rat Lines reconstruction of Europe as well as what he was doing with the Gestapo before they returned him to his role in the French underground during the war. It does make me want to know more about Plantard and Prince Bernhart of the Thulean Gestapo who founded the Bilderbergs with the aid of the OSS/CIA. Yes, there is a wide-ranging ‘Charmed Circle’ to say the least.

THE GREAT WORK:

The Philosopher’s Stone is not just a spiritual allegory for a personal enlightenment despite what many people will tell you. They say these things because it is true that a spiritual enlightenment is required if one is to make a ‘Stone’, and because they have not done the ‘work’. Israel Regardie wrote a book called The Philosopher’s Stone in which he said it was only a metaphor or allegory. Regardie is worth reading and he was the personal secretary for Aleister Crowley and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn which some authors say is satanistic. The authors who say that are often Bible Thumpers and worse. It is Luciferian and Lucifer is the Venus light or Heliopolitan Druidic system. It is a good spiritual course and Regardie’s work on the books of the HOGD that present part of that course are possibly the best books to introduce people to the Path. You can be certain that the De Medicis were not stupid superstitious people despite the fact that they bought the Papacy more than a few times. The De Medicis paid to have the Corpus Hermeticum translated and had their family name (De Brix) used as the title. They were not mere ‘farmers’ or ‘bauers’. They have always been of the highest understanding. This is one of the reasons you can be sure the Rothschilds are the De Medicis. Both of these families used the same old song about being ‘farmers’ (De Medicis) or ‘bauers’ which is translated as ‘farmers’.

I think there is a good possibility that Saunire happened upon a ‘Stone’. It might even have been the ‘Stone’ used by Nostradamus or Leonardo. Nostradamus was protected by the De Medicis and Leonardo was one of their employees. It is even possible that Sauniere was able to influence the future he saw in the ‘Stone’ in a more meaningful way than other Time (or Impeccable) Warriors like Carlos Castaneda. This explanation fits with his knowing when he would die and his being able to stop that death but having been told (By the Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperors) that he would not be allowed to choose a different date to die. In fact this explanation is the one I personally favor out of all the possible explanations for the enormous sums of money he was provided.

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To make your computer business more profitable, you need to
start providing service to businesses, not consumers. This
article will show you why providing service to businesses is
more profitable than providing service to consumers in your
computer business. Retail-oriented customers need service once
or twice a year and don’t need your service on an extended
basis, but businesses are a different story. Let’s say that your
goal is to produce $200,000 a year in pure services revenue for
your computer business. Here are two choices you have: In depth:
retail-oriented clients Choice A is providing business to
consumer service (B2C). This person may spend $250 a year in
services (or product margin) from your shop. That money may be
spent on a hard drive upgrade, a repair, installing Wi-Fi
equipment, running a Cat 5 cable in their home office, etc.
You’ll need a lot of customers at $250 per customer to reach
$200,000 a year-800 to be exact. If you’re just selling the
products and you don’t have a lot of after-sale post-support,
that customer volume may seem manageable with just a small staff
in your computer business. Keep in mind, though, that these
retail customers are going to need a lot of handholding. Plus,
what is it going to cost you in terms of advertising,
promotional, and marketing dollars to be able to get those 800
customers in your computer business? Next, look at labor costs.
How many technicians and system engineers will your firm need to
be able to deliver adequate “free” or “paid” support to those
customers? (Also, bear in mind that retail computer store
service is generally billed at much lower rates than commercial
small business service). In depth: business clients: Now, look
at choice B; business customers (B2B), who are committing to
spending a minimum of about $1,000 a month-every single month.
That’s a $12,000 a year minimum per customer. Do the math.
You’ll see you only need about 16 or 17 of these customers to
reach your goal. This is a whole lot more manageable in your
computer business, even with one or two system engineers, or
with just one or two high-level technical consultants. At
$12,000 per year, these businesses are no longer
transaction-oriented, one-shot-deal customers. At $1,000 per
month commitment … that’s a real client! Plus, you’ll also
have a lot less non-billable time. You end up “eating” more
hours and more time on the tiny jobs, the $100 and the $200 and
the $500 customers, than you will with the ones that have
extended maintenance over an extended period of time. The Bottom
Line about Your Computer Business In this article, you’ve been
introduced to the advantages of providing service to other
businesses in your computer business.

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When you’re looking at a Cisco router configuration, figuring out what the different passwords do can be a little confusing at first. But as I tell all my students, the key to understanding something that looks complex is to break it down to smaller parts.

Having said that, let’s take a look at a typical running configuration and then break it down line by line to make sure you understand what each password is doing. This is a must for success on exam day and on the job!

Username r1 password router

Username chris password Bryant

Username david password stimpson

Enable password cisco

Enable secret ccna

Service password-encryption

Line console0

Login

Password passexam

Line vty 0 4

Login

Password ccnp

There’s a lot going on in that little configuration. Working from top to bottom, let’s take a look at what each section does.

Username r1 password router

Username chris password Bryant

Username david password stimpson

The username / password combination creates a local database that the router will use to authentication users connecting on your BRI lines, and it’s also used to authenticate users connecting via telnet!

To use the local database instead of a common VTY password:

Line vty 0 4

Login local

This allows each user to have their own password instead of everyone using the single VTY line password.

Enable password cisco

Enable secret ccna

The enable password and enable secret commands are used to do the same thing - protect privileged exec mode, more commonly referred to as enable mode.

Why use both? The enable password is still in use for backwards compatibility. Most routers are configured with both, and they’ll probably be different. (This is because the router’s going to prompt you for a different password for one if you try to set them both to the same word.)

If we only have one enable mode to protect, but two different passwords, which one should a user enter? The enable secret - because the enable secret always has precedence over the enable password. No exceptions. (We don’t get to say that very often in Ciscoland, do we? J )

There’s one other major difference. The enable secret is encrypted by default the enable password is displayed in clear text. Actually, all the other passwords you see above will be displayed in clear text by default.

Service password-encryption

This default can be changed by activating a Cisco router service that’s off by default. Run the service password-encryption command to encrypt all passwords in your configuration.

Before a user gets to enable mode, though, there may be a password to start working at the console to begin with. This password has to be entered just to get to user exec (assuming the previous user logged out fully and correctly!).

Line console0

Login

Password passexam

Note that there are two commands. You need to enable the password function with the “login” command, and then set a password. The order in which you enter these two commands does not matter - just make sure you enter them both!

Line vty 0 4

Login

Password ccnp

Of course, the VTY lines are used to enable Telnet connectivity and to set a password. Cisco requires a password be set for Telnet access, and this basic configuration will prompt any user for the one single password. This password would apply to all five simultaneous Telnet connections if more than one user were telnetting in at once.

For much more on Telnet, read my tutorial on the subject, found at www.thebryantadvantage.com .

To get your CCNA, you’ve got to be more than ready for password questions. Whether you’re asked to set one or troubleshoot an existing configuration on an exam or on the job, these should be second nature to you. And they will be, once you break a configuration like this into smaller parts.

To your success,

Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage (http://www.thebryantadvantage.com), home of free CCNA and CCNP tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. Video courses and training, binary and subnetting help, and corporate training are also available. Pass the CCNA exam with Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933!