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…
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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…
In recent years, Dell has come a long way in the networking department. The days of shuddering in disgust at the sight of a Dell PowerConnect in the datacenter are…
I’ve been an IT consultant for nearly 15 years. During that time, I’ve run across countless horror shows involving all manner of outages and technical glitches that plunged me into…
If you follow the news in the slightest, you’ve probably heard of WikiLeaks, the organization responsible to for publishing volumes of classified secrets for the world to see. Lost among…