Back to the old days when everything goes through the classic SMTP, nothing gets protected. Those were the good days for any man in the middle, picking up confidential information like free gift. Not anymore with the use of TLS, StartTLS, or even better S/MIME which is suitable for your most sensitive information. Every email sent through TLS is encrypted […]
A fellow IT Redditor, /u/shalafi71, created quite a security training slideshow and generously shared his PowerPoint on /r/sysadmin, who also adds: Take this as a skeleton and flesh it out on your own. Take an hour or two and research the things I talk about. Tailor this to your own environment and users. Make it relevant to your people. Include corporate stories, […]
With the end of life is approaching fast for Windows 7 systems, I racked up my nerve and set up a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) system lately to replace my ages-old ImageX imaging system for Windows 10 deployment, either new installations or upgrades from old Operating Systems like Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Setting it up wasn’t too bad, especially […]
I had a need to manipulate some text files to get the clean data the other day and found it’s extremely easy to deal with text files with PowerShell. To open a text file and get the content of it, Get-Content path\filename.txt But I can use ForEach cycle to read each line the same time. foreach ($eachline in Get-Content path\filename.txt) […]
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are different methods to authenticate your email to serve one dedicated purpose, detecting forged sender address in emails used in phishing or spam. SPF, Sender Policy Framework, allows the receiver to check that an email claiming from a specific domain comes from an IP address authorized by that domain’s admin. A typical SPF record is a […]
Microsoft published a new draft release of the security configuration baseline settings for both Windows 10 version 1903 and Windows Server version 1903. Download here: Windows-10-1903-Security-Baseline-DRAFT (direct download link from Microsoft). It includes GPO backups, GPO reports, scripts to apply settings to local GPO, Policy Analyzer rules files for each baseline and for the full set, and spreadsheets documenting all […]
On https://osintframework.com/: OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources. The intention is to help people find free OSINT resources. Some of the sites included might require registration or offer more data for $$$, but you should be able to get at least a portion of the available information for no cost. I originally created this framework […]
April 1 is a horrible day for product launch and yet big companies like Google has the guts to make the bald moves. 15 years ago today on April 1, 2004, Google launched Gmail, a web-based email service that had the power of Google Search built right in. It started as a beta release on an invitation-only basis and officially […]