“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981 (but probably not*) The first time I took the CCNA exam, I needed to know the ins and outs…
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“Patch Tuesday” has been in the IT lexicon for as long as I remember. For many, many years Tuesday has been Microsoft’s designated day to release patches to Windows. In…
It has been quite a week for the IT industry. Like another 2020 inside 2020. Everyone has been talking about the SolarWinds supply chain attack this week. Many of us…
No, you’re not crazy — you did pay for a multi-year certificate. Why is it only good for a year, you ask? The answer to that question goes back to…
US Treasury Department will take legal action against companies who pay ransom. “Let’s just pay the ransom…” This is something I have heard more than once during a ransomware attack….
If information technology is your career, you have experienced or will experience an IT emergency or crisis at some point. If you have not, it is only a matter of time. …
“DC03 shows it’s clean.” That was the word when I took over during a recent cyberattack incident. During this cyberattack, accounts were created, data was encrypted, GPOs were created and…
“We’re network engineers. We’re not supposed to be this popular,” my beleaguered colleague said. While the economy is clearly taking a hit in the world of COVID-19, we have seen a slight…
For years, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) has been a standard to integrate systems and services with Active Directory. Firewalls, application delivery controllers, and the like use LDAP to give…
Ransomware has been on the scene for a few years now, but there are still just three ways to deal with getting compromised. If you are compromised with ransomware, you…
In your IT career have you ever Googled an issue or symptom only to find out you are the only person ever to see that issue? Not a good feeling,…
If you’ve been in IT for more than a few years, you’ve experienced The Next Big Thing in the industry. Several times. If you’ve been around since 2010 you, no…