Zabbix is a fantastic open-source application for monitoring your network attached devices. In regard to monitoring Windows endpoints, there are many Windows services that you will not want to see alerts for in your Zabbix dashboard. You can add exclusions to the template so that this excess clutter is not shown. This is a question… Read More »
I received this text message a few minutes ago. It must be in regards to that box of cash I am waiting for from the prince of Nigeria. I better click on this to be sure. I also noticed how clever the USPS is by using Cuttly for URL shortening.
BrightTALK is an organization that is supposed to be a media company providing technology webinars you can watch. The problem is they are one of the most obnoxious spammers on the planet. If your email addresse gets on one of their lists, you are screwed! Their unsubscribe options do not work and seem to actually… 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 »
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 »