Happy TLS 1.2 Day!
Microsoft’s editor of the Windows release health page must be a fan of The West Wing, because they decided to take out the trash on the Friday night before Labor
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When I said “Reset all the passwords”…
The lights dim, and the curtain rises Sysadmin 1: So I reset all the passwords in Active Directory, like you asked. I still can’t believe our security vendor reset everyone’s
Why AI won’t replace programming
Farhad Manjoo, opinion writer for The New York Times, recently published a column titled “It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)” in which
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
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