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Director, Information Systems

IT guy with something like 40 years in the industry.  I'm a generalist, and so have had my hands in just about everything to some extent.

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Totally Resolving SMBv1 Vulnerabilities Through GPO

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While SMBv1 has been disabled on current operating systems, some older operating systems are still in production. This can cause the vulnerability to still existing in an environment. Sometimes is shows up unexpectedly. This was the case recently and how it was resolved through a GPO.
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I'm proud that Apple is using their financial power to stick…

I'm proud that Apple is using their financial power to stick it to these degenerates. Keep up the …
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CEUs for First-Timers

The Basics of CEUs and how to continually educate so you have enough units when you need them. Things I wish I had known when I started this process.
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Free/Open-Source Self-Service Password Reset tool for Active Directory

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The article explains the process to deploy a Self-Service password reset portal I developed a few years ago. Hopefully, it will prove useful to someone. Any comments, bug reports etc. are welcome...
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password policy for SQL server 2019/2022

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hi,


in SQL server how can we control and enforce password policy in mandatory way?


e..g 

1) at least 8

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Ransomware Defeated

Decrypting Cryakl 1.4.0.0 / 1.4.1.0 FAIRYTAIL Ransomware

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Feeling responsible for an unfortunate ransomware infection on my parent's network, persistence paid off as I was able to decrypt a strain of ransomware that was not previously (or at least publicly) cracked. I hope this helps others out there affected by the same strain. CL 1.4.0.0 Fairytail
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Improve Network Security – Separate DNS from Active Directory

While deploying Active Directory with integrated DNS makes managing a domain easier, it does come with security risks. Separating out DNS can actually improve security and make things harder for a threat actor.
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Hotmail hacked

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My elderly uncle, who is no way technically literature, has someone accessing his email.

He feels …
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Script to iport dumpsec output/ recommended changes for  ntfs permission using xcalcs

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hi,
I ran a dumpsec scan againt all our server with the output going to xls files (for each drive …
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Amazon recently filed a patent for a system wherein while …

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Amazon recently filed a patent for a system wherein while someone is shopping inside of a store, and…
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Stopping Backdoor Spam On Microsoft M365

As organizations move from an on premises Exchange environment SaaS based M365. There are configurations that may allow email to slip in passed typical email filtering systems. This is all based on the configuration and described in this article, along with the solution.
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SQL 2016 security feature called Always Encrypted- column-level encryption,

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hi,


  We have a concern on current encryption on SQL 2016 standard so that Hacker can't hack our

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ARP Cache poisoning attack

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New device connected to the network unknown device


Network threat blocked ARP Cache poisoning attack 
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In-Place Upgrade from Windows Server 2012R2 to 2022

Microsoft has ended support for Windows Server 2012R2. This means not only an end to features and bug fixes, but an end to security patches as well. Rather than building a new server from scratch, there is the option for an in-place upgrade.
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Get the serial number of all visiting devices

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Hi Guys,
To improve security by limiting access to a website's sensitive pages, I want to get the

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