The bit about getting the 'horse' planted reminded me of how vulnerable we all are to that kind of attack vector. In depth story of industrial espionage, complete with social engineering Security.We've made it to Friday, everyone! I hope everyone has a great, fun, and relaxing weekend! But before you start checking out, let's jump into today's Snap! Snap! Edge News Feed scams, EU's largest DDoS attack to date, SSDs vs HDDs, etc Spiceworks Originals.IT & Tech Careersĭo you ever get that feeling that it is all going to pot? Or more accurately I should ask, Do you ever NOT get that feeling?!Īt least it happened on a Friday, so I can fully justify my double rations of Guinness tonight. That Sinking Feeling, and how I fought it.So, anyone out there have their ASA's die on them at a high rate suddenly, or have discovered that power supplies are going bad, possibly killing their ASA's? Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree and this is just random chance that it is happening this way.

Tried that power supply on the one that just died and it was still dead. So, I grabbed yet another spare ASA and a different power supply. I may have just killed this ASA with a bad power supply. This was a working ASA 2 months ago before we upgraded to a different model.

I took the power supply that I pulled from the one that I pulled from the dead ASA yesterday (probably a bad idea), and plugged it into one of the spares we had from an old office. So today, back at my office, I was about to prepare another ASA 5505. I left the dead one where it was at as I plan on going back today (so I don't lose where the mess of cables went). It was late in the day so I did not have a spare ASA preconfigured to bring along. It still did not boot up - and no lights. I confirmed that the power source was good, so I swapped out the ASA's power supply. When I arrived, there were no lights on the ASA. Yesterday we had one die in a remote office (death #4), so I stopped by to make sure it was not some sort of user error, like being unplugged, loose cables, etc., and also brought a spare power supply. We have a lot of ASA 5505's deployed, and for years have had no issues. I just need to bounce this off of my fellow Spiceheads.

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