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Apple with Intune: Renewing your MDM Certificate
A year ago I gave someone access to my Intune environment in order to be able to demonstrate how to manage iOS devices, so for the last year I have been happy to manage my two iOS devices (actually several over the timeframe) from the same portal as my Windows devices. It is just so…
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Portable Security Just Got Better
I have been telling my students for years that they do not need to be cybersecurity specialists, but they do need to plan security into every phase of their operations. That holds equally true if you are an application developer, infrastructure specialist, or desktop administrator. By not planning security into every aspect of what we…
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Troubleshooting A Bad Port
I have been in the business of troubleshooting and fixing computers since I was a teenager, and still from time to time I come across issues that make me shake my head. The computer: Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (Core i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD) The operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 23h2 (Enterprise) Connected Devices: AT…
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Virtual Machines on Windows Home: Oracle VirtualBox
**NOTE: Part of this article was copied straight from an article I published a few months ago called Kali on VirtualBox: Start to Done. The steps to install Oracle VirtualBox are no different, and it I did not feel the need to reinvent the wheel. –MDG — I teach a lot of different classes and…
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Kali on Windows: The Full Monty!
This is the third in my series of articles on installing Kali Linux on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Before performing these steps, make sure you have performed all of the necessary steps from the previous two articles, found here: Kali on Windows Kali on Windows: Adding the Desktop Of course, in the first article…
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Kali on Windows: Adding the Desktop
In my last article (Kali on Windows) I showed you how to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on your Windows client, and then install an instance of Kali Linux in it so that you could have the functionality of Kali without the separation of a hypervisor… or worse, needing a second computer. The…
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Kali on Windows
This will be the first in a series of three (3) articles that I am writing to take my readers step-by-step through the installation of Windows Subsystem for Linux, installing Kali Linux on that, and then converting that minimal installation into a complete Kali toolset, including the desktop, and the ability to connect to it…
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Am Yisrael Chai
I have been blogging nearly twenty years. In all those years I have never reposted an article from someone I do not know, and I have certainly never reposted any article that some would feel is political. Here it is…
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Microsoft Disabling Older TLS Going Forward
Microsoft announced this week that future versions of Windows (client and server) will no longer have TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 enabled. This step is designed to encourage you to use modern security mechanisms for your organization. TLS (Transport Layer Security) is an encryption mechanism designed to prevent eavesdroppers from reading your data in transit,…
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Clippy Is All Grown Up!
If you have been using Microsoft Office as long as I have then you remember Clippy, the personal assistant who never seemed to do anything useful. It is what was left of Microsoft Bob when Windows 95 made that tool obsolete, and was included in every version of Microsoft Office from 1997 through 2007. The…
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Security Webinars
Over the last few months I have written and recorded a number of webinars for Netcom Learning on a number of security-related topics. I thought I would share them with you here! Please note that you will have to register for these webinars, but there is no cost. You will, however, receive a phone call…
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Managing Active Directory Domain Services From a Jumpbox
I have been a big fan of Windows Server Core since I first learned about it in Windows Server 2008. It has come a long way since that first generation; today you can run nearly every server-based application without the Graphical User Interface (GUI). However, one role that has always been a great candidate for…
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Intune is Out of Tune
I tried to log on to my Microsoft Intune (formerly Microsoft Endpoint Manager) console and was greeted with the following message: While I am sure they will be back online shortly, I cannot help but think that this is because I just made a joke about messing with my buddy’s computer because of a football…
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Kali on VirtualBox: Start to Done
A few months ago I wrote an article called Kali on Hyper-V: Start to Done. I teach a lot of cybersecurity classes, and Kali Linux is a distro that includes most of the tools that so many cybersecurity professionals will use on a daily basis. When I wrote the article I was not thinking that…