Looking for a long time for a basic car check when buying something, even had a friend try one time and still got burned. here is the source Checklist when buying a “new” used car (Fav and Forget) – Imgur Let the sales guy watch you do the checks All the locks work Windows smooth […]
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Password Complexity Doesn’t Matter
This is the third time I have heard this, and it seems to be gaining tracktion. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Your-Pa-word-doesn-t-matter/ba-p/731984
Hardening Windows 10
I was looking to see about required services and such and ran across this web site; https://hardenwindows10forsecurity.com/ I was very dubious of it, as the web seems very simple, but it still had great information. I did contact the owner, and I have used the link, and I will say at this time this appears […]
Offline COLD Backups
No one will ever convince me that backups to the cloud, or online hard disks is the best way to go. Not ever. https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/02/12/1942248/hackers-wipe-us-servers-of-email-provider-vfemail Tapes or offline drives. Always.
CIA Compromised – Vault 7
I have been surprised how many people do not know about this, mostly the non nerd population. Here I am just posting a link to a reference; Vault 7: WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s secret hacking tools and spy operations
Physical Security is Just as Important
So this is my effort to consolidate references. I often read stories the inform my opinions, but forget where the references are. So here are my first two; DarkVishnya: Banks attacked through direct connection to local network By Sergey Golovanov on December 6 “In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to research a series of cybertheft incidents. Each attack […]