Last year, the US government made moves to ban the use of Kaspersky security software in federal agencies, claiming the company’s ties to the Russian government represented a security risk. In September, the Department of Homeland Security issued an order that required federal departments and agencies to remove the company’s software from their systems. Then, […]
Month: May 2018
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VMware vCenter 6.7a and other released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7a, vSphere Replication 8.1.0.2, vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4, and PowerCLI 10.1. Download link
vCenter Single Sign by default requires the user to specify the domain during authentication with vCenter. Example: JERMSMIT\admin or admin@JERMSMIT.LAB. You can eliminate the need to insert the domain in the username by following the following steps. Log in to the vSphere Web Client as administrator@vsphere.local or as another user with vCenter Single Sign-On administrator […]
If you’re like me, you have encountered this error remoting into one of your servers. An Authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported. Remote computer: <servername> This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation The quick solution is to patch your host from one of the patches here If you are unable to […]
Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP). An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could relay user credentials and use them to execute code on the target system. CredSSP is an authentication provider which processes authentication requests for other applications; any application which depends on CredSSP for […]
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Happy #NationalPasswordDay!
Today is NationalPasswordDay 2018 – May 3, 2018 The following is a list of good practices designed to keep individuals and their data safe online. Email Security Avoid opening emails, downloading attachments, or clicking on suspicious links sent from unknown or untrusted sources. Verify unexpected attachments or links from known senders by contacting them via another […]