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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…
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First Amendment Rights
<rant> To all of the First Amendment ‘journalists’ who post videos of themselves arguing with the police for asking them to not record: Yes, it might be your right to do it. It is always your right to be a belligerent and argumentative jackass. In the vast majority of cases, the police are very respectful…
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Another Pensive Airport Article
Airports can be hard to predict. When I got to the airport in Toronto ten days ago at 3:30am I was shocked by the mob scene that greeted me. It was only later when a friend informed me that it was the beginning of March Break that I understood the madness. Assuming that today is…
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Intune is In Tune… Again.
**NOTE: I do not know if there is currently an official logo for Microsoft Intune. Of the two included in this article, one was the original logo in 2010, and the other was found on the Internet. After being introduced to Microsoft Intune in the early part of the last decade, I was troubled by…
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A Brief Explanation of Subnet Masks
If you have ever searched for the IP Address of your computer, you have probably used one of the following commands: ipconfig, ifconfig, or ip addr. If you are really fancy and decided to use Windows PowerShell, you might even have used get-netipconfiguration. Whichever one you used on whichever is your preferred operating system, you…
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If Anyone Could Do It… Revisited
I came across this article that I posted three years ago, and thought it was worth sharing again. During my last contract with Microsoft I discovered that within the company they are essentially handing out the credential Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) like it was candy, requiring little or no proof of actual training ability. To…
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Linux on Active Directory
I remember a decade or so ago when Microsoft tried to reach out to the Open Source community and get them to give their products and environments a chance. ‘Microsoft loves Linux!’ was the slogan, with a big heart in there. I remember joking with some of my colleagues that they really did not, but…
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Lessons Of The Father… or things he should have taught you
A few weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about a man who lost over $40,000 to online scammers, and I was absolutely floored by how anyone could be taken in by such a scam. Please understand that online scammers are very good at what they do. If you are not actively expecting…
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VMware Vulnerability
This article was sent to me over the weekend. It seems that VMware is no longer immune to ransomware. If you did not believe me before when I told you that patch management was one of your most important defensive weapons in the fight against cybersecurity incidents, please believe me now! Massive ESXiArgs ransomware attack…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 