Greatly meliorated service accounts
I’m a fan of Latin. No, not the music; the so-called dead language that was recently praised by a novelist and Oxford professor as “useless.” So when I set out
Author: Robert J. Funches
A toast to Maximum PC in print (with minimum BS)
For all of the benefits of electronic publishing — not having to cut down a bunch of trees to produce paper, as a starting point — there’s nothing quite like
Time to play fetch with FIDO
I recently wrote about multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the context of voiceprint analysis as a biometric authenticator. One authentication method I briefly mentioned was Fast ID Online, or FIDO. It’s
Is my voice really my password?
A number of financial institutions over the past decade have implemented voice-based authentication on their customer service phone systems. Call in and at some point you’ll be asked to say,
Deep thoughts on Microsoft’s Bing chat
Perhaps not deep thoughts…but thoughts, nonetheless, on the apple of everyone’s eye in February 2023: Microsoft’s AI-assisted Bing chat. (Cue subtle jab at Siri.) This is why we can’t have
Fixing custom sysmon-modular rules with invalid XML
I’m a big proponent of Sysinternals Sysmon for shops that aren’t running a commercial endpoint detection and response (EDR) tool, like VMware’s Carbon Black or Crowdstrike’s Falcon. Sysmon is the
When Notepad dials up a domain controller
Windows Notepad is a lonely tool. It barely does the job in a pinch, with only the most basic functions you’d expect in a text editor. Older versions drove non-Windows
Cyber security lessons from the NYSE opening auction glitch
January 24, 2023 started off as a normal Tuesday morning in the U.S. equity markets. Trading firms, retail investors, and other market participants entered their orders ahead of the opening
Joining “The Death of Anne Brontë” as Executive Producer
I’m pleased to announce that I recently signed on to an independent short film, “The Death of Anne Brontë,” as one of their Executive Producers. The film is being produced
A revamped [new] website
The new RobertJFunches.com was launched not too long ago, but the site has been slightly re-done here in late August 2021. Apparently my previous virtual hosting provider — who will