For a few months now I have used the software package named Pi-Hole as an internal network DNS server to prevent ad sites in addition to malicious websites from being accessible form compute resources on my home network. Pi-Hole is a small install that can be installed on any Linux system and it works like […]
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Warning: I do not advocate that anyone to make modifications which extend outside of their organizations security policies. Doing so may put account security as risk. By default, passwords associated with vSphere Single Sign-On expire every 90 days. As a user approaches this expiry point they will be reminded that their password is about to […]
Office 365: Use Content Search to delete unwanted Emails from Organization As an admin you can use the Content search located under Security & Compliance to search for and delete email message from select or all mailbox in your organization. This is particularly useful to remove high-risk emails such as: Message that contains sensitive data […]
I recently retired my OpenVPN Turnkey appliance and needed to get my VPN solution up and running again. I decided to go with installing OpenVPN Access Server on a clean install of Ubuntu Server to create a stable and lightweight Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access my network. I chose to go with OpenVPN AS because […]
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New Phishing Scam Using Microsoft Office 365
*** Attention Required *** It seems that the bad guys are at it once again with an attempt to collect information by phishing credentials from those of us using Office 365 for corporate emails. The characteristics of this particular attack the hackers intention is to deceive Office 365 users into providing their login credentials”. The […]
You can’t patch these, but you can take steps to be more aware of these law’s. Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it’s not solely your computer anymore. Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it’s not […]