Archive for December 2019

Report alleges massive Wyze data breach, but many questions remain https://www.slashgear.com/report-alleges-massive-wyze-data-breach-but-many-questions-remain-26604513/

Fortinet makes a nice Firewall; it uses ASIC chips to offload much of it’s CPU intensive work, making the firewall responsive, high-throuput without drastically increasing the cost. Fortinet 60e $1380…

https://passwords.google.com will show you what passwords you have saved in Chrome browser and let you do a password checkup that compares your passwords to the list found in recent password…

SunnyValley makes extended functionality plugin for OPNsense. Their goal is to make this usable for all opensource firewalls (read pfsense soon) There is a free version. Upgrade to OPNSense v20…

I have been recommending to limit share permissions to all of my clients. Recently client wanted to allow access to a business partner via TsWeb. Because they wanted to view…

Pushover is a messaging system that is easy for programmers and manufacturers to implement but not so easy to setup and manage, mostly due to the lack of documentation. Pushover…

This is a link to a powershell script that will remove an entire list of programs that come pre-installed in Windows 10 but you likely never use. (Candy Crush?) https://windowsreport.com/powershell-remove-windows-10-default-apps/

Just testing a post after the following option in Sucuri Security, settings, hardening Block PHP Files in WP-CONTENT Directory Block PHP Files in WP-INCLUDES Directory

Some HP SSD drives have 100% failure at 32768 hours of operation, caused by a firmware bug prior to HPD8. There is a firmware update to fix this but it…

WordPress is a popular target for hackers because it has a large install base. Plug-ins make it flexable but there is no guarantee that code writen by 3rd parties is…