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 they are doing this, and posted an article on how to disable it HERE. Basically, go to Settings / Privacy & Security, and scroll down until you see, “Firefox Data Collection and Use” section. Uncheck the option that says, “Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla”.

After you uncheck the option, you will see the below message. All good now.

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 the recipients.

SlashNext uses a method of analyzing the links within an email (Or website if you have browser protection also). Thus, this provides protection that most anti-spam and email protection systems, miss.

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 contact our helpdesk.

To remove this, you will need to go into your admin portal. Then go into Azure Active Directory, then USERS, then REGISTRATION. Change the option, “Require user to register when signing in“, to NO.

Now your users will no longer get prompted to enter an alternative email address for authentication verification. Our policy is that the IT department should be contacted.

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 originally designed to split data across multiple mechanical drives for improved performance with scientific calculations with older computers and storage. It was always known as volatile (Like 20 years ago). Now days, there is absolutely no reason to use it.