Tag: life
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Outside My Comfort Zone
While my focus has of late shifted to cybersecurity, I have spent most of my teaching career focusing on Microsoft technologies. It made sense, since as an IT consultant I had always specialized in Microsoft infrastructure technologies. Even with my recent shift to infosec, I am still the go-to instructor for the Microsoft stack for…
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On Connect Woes & Broken AD Links
I woke up this morning to an email that read: Password Hash Synchronization heartbeat was skipped in last 120 minutes. While this happens for no apparent reason from time to time, I logged in four hours after the email came in and noticed the issue had not been resolved. I went to log into my…
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How Could You Let That Happen?
A close friend of mine, an elderly gentleman from the old country (in every way), is going through a terrible time right now. Part of his struggles includes (a known) someone hacking into his email account. When he asked me ‘…why can’t I just hack into the account to take it back?’ I had to…
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Goodbye to an Era
In the days after the demise of cassette tapes and before MP3s existed there were basically two ways get your music legally: You could listen to the radio of course… but the vast majority of people purchased it on Compact Disc (CDs). Tower Records reigned supreme but there were many other places to purchase them……
The World According to Mitch 