What are the Sysadmin-Related Blogs & Mailing Lists you monitor?

Asked Apr 30 '09 at 12:02

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I know this is a gimme question, but I genuinely would like to add more sysadmin related feeds to my reader, so please list the contents of your feedreader.

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asked Apr 30 '09 at 12:02

Tom Ritter

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http://serverfault.com/questions/580 is a dupe, but has some good alternative answers. – Richard Gadsden May 05 '09 at 15:59

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Blackhat SEO

http://contempt.me/ - Totally a jerk, possibly illegal. Blog spam, spam rings, and the like. But an interesting look into administration of hundreds or thousands of tiny sites.

Scaling

http://highscalability.com/ - Often about code, but just as often about scaling servers and system tweaks to optimize. Like this article and optimizing even CPU load balancing

Security

http://gentoo-portage.com/GLSA - Because I run gentoo. The security list of whatever major products you use is standard I think
http://xorl.wordpress.com/ - He reads the patches for security holes and shows where the error is. It's code, but often in the kernel or major packages
http://www.darknet.org.uk/ - Often has posts about tools, including forensics, SCADA, and the like
http://digg.com/security - Often fluff or several days behind, but it's slow-moving so it's easy to stick in and forget
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/ - More configuration type posts, but also talks about large-scale deployment of security fixes and techniques
http://www.net-security.org/ - I find this to be almost total fluff and markest more at CIOs looking for buzzwords, but once in a while some signal gets through
http://www.net-security.org/insecuremag.php - An awesome magazine that comes out every few months
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/ - He runs a Web Application Firewall company, so his posts are often focused around that, numbers relating to the industry, and general Web Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/ - A mainstay
http://www.secguru.com/ - Something like a reddit for security. It often gets good articles but some of then are fluff
http://www.windowsecurity.com/ - Has good tutorials and explanations for setting up things like Domain Authentication and Kerberos in Windows.
http://seclists.org/#bugtraq - I monitor this for anything interesting or apps I run. Often gets first-reports
http://seclists.org/#dailydave - A very high signal to noise ratio list run by Dave Aitel
http://seclists.org/#pen-test - Low signal to noise, but I skim it anyway
http://seclists.org/#basics - Low signal to noise, but I skim it anyway. I can actually answer some of these!
http://seclists.org/#webappsec - Low signal to noise, but I skim it anyway

answered Apr 30 '09 at 12:02

Tom Ritter

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Just one from me - I follow afp548.com for Mac OS X admin news. There are also some good mailing lists for OS X sysadmins, such as macos-x-server@lists.apple.com and macenterprise@lists.psu.edu.

answered Apr 30 '09 at 12:12