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Defunding CVEs
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CWE: Common Weakness Enumeration CVSS: Common Vulnerability Scoring System If you work in the IT field then you are almost certainly familiar with these three terms. You might even know that the databases for CVEs and CWEs have been maintained by MITRE for… well, for as long as I’ve been…
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RSAT Toolkits
I have been an advocate of using Server Core since… well, essentially since Microsoft introduced it in Windows Server 2008. I have also been a huge proponent of the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) that can be installed in the client OS to remotely manage the non-GUI servers without having to become a PowerShell or…
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The Human Firewall
We have firewalls and Intrusion Protection Systems. We have passwords and encryption and VLANs and network segmentation and every type of cybersecurity device known to man… but none of that will stand up against the biggest vulnerability in our corporate organization: the end user. In 1894 the Dutch industrialist JC Van Marken coined the term…
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Format Painting Just Got Easier
If you spend as much time in Microsoft 365 Apps (such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) as I do, then you are probably always happy to learn new tricks. I have been using the Format Painter option for years, and while having to grab the mouse to find the paintbrush icon in the ribbon toolbar…
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Conditional Access: Block a Network or a Nation!
Your company has issued laptops to your employees so that they can work from anywhere. That’s great… until you realize that some of your employees might go on vacation to a country that is not on your government’s Christmas Card list… in fact, you know that your data compliance policy forbids access from those countries.…
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A Light Workstation With a Heavy Load
I have a confession to make: I have not owned a desktop computer since 2007. While I bought my first laptop when I was still in the Army, I went back and forth for a few years until I began to travel constantly for work. When I relocated from Montreal to the Greater Toronto and…
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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…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 