Typically, when a flash drive is formatted from an ISO image, the flash drive will be formatted as an ISO9660 type and not want to be re-formatted or erased easily. Take a look at Gparted showing a flash drive below with the Linux Mint ISO on it. When I attempt to delete the Partition in… Read More »
This is a small example I put together on how to quickly loop through each user SID in HKEY_USERS and find the value that shows what the wallpaper is set to for each user. This little script is a decent reference to use for finding (And with a little modification, setting) registry value(s) in the… Read More »
A simple method I like to use when I want to quickly run a powershell script to download a file from a webserver. I use this when endpoints are not on an internal network so a network share is not always available, but since I am usually remotely calling the powershell script, Internet access is… Read More »
An email was forwarded to me that came from a security MSP trying to stir up business with someone at the company I work at. Their quasi-scareware email was funny, but a horrible way for us to take seriously. Only thing missing was a sentence asking for bitcoin. I remember several years ago, companies were… Read More »
Not a good week for NCR Aloha POS hosted solutions. They have been dealing with a BlackCat ransomware attack as reported by articles at: BleepingComputer – NCR suffers Aloha POS outage after BlackCat ransomware attack. DataBreaches.net – A short-lived BlackCat listing suggests NCR’s customers’ networks were accessed Securityweek.com – Payments Giant NCR Hit by Ransomware… Read More »
There are times when you need to run your own DHCP server. For me, this was needed to add to my laptop so I can program IP security cameras with my USB Ethernet adapter attached. The software that typically comes with security cameras is total crap with a bad Chinese translation layered on top and… Read More »
Was looking at my Adguard for home server dashboard and I noticed the blocked links for Mozilla Firefox is sending telemetry data. I did some looking and Firefox data is mainly to help it make a better product but some products go too far. Either way, I want to disable it. Firefox doesn’t hide that… Read More »
It is amazing how phishing emails are becoming more sophisticated. We have recently added a product called SlashNext to help protect our environment from phishing emails. It has been doing a fantastic job of catching emails that passed every other detection method. Below are six samples of the emails captured and blocked from going to… Read More »
Recently, O365 started prompting users in my organization during sign-in to add an alternative (Authentication verification) email address. This is not an option we turned on, nor is it an option I wanted to be enabled. If the user needs help resetting their password or having issues signing in, our policy is for them to… Read More »
About once a month I read a post somewhere that some poor schmuck is using or wanting to use RAID0 for spanning two drives together or thinking their SSD’s going to get better performance. If you are one of those idiots, we cannot be friends. I cannot deal with that amount of stupidity. RAID0 was… Read More »