Security

Browser Addons I Use

15th September 2022

Always: uBlock Origin Blocks Ads etc, used it for years, never had any reason to changeBitWarden Password manager, the last remaining free one When needed: Read Aloud lets me multi-taskGoogle…

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SpecOps Password Audit

17th May 2022

Free software to audit your AD passwords. Compares passwords to HaveIBeenPwned database. Other software can do the same but this does it for free and it’s easy to use. https://specopssoft.com/blog/checking-pwned-passwords-active-directory/

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TeamViewer Clipboard attack

Teamviewer shares the clipboard with anyone remote controlling it. And it will synconSo if you ask someone to remote control your PC or a 3rd PC you are remote controlling…

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Cybersecurity Zone Defense:

13th May 2022

We can think of Cybersecurity as having 3 basic zones; Red, Yellow, Green.Red Zone is the internet. Make sure everything here is locked down tight, No compromises. Zone includes your…

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Firefox HSTS blocking local servers

21st March 2022

Disable HSTS thusly https://campus.barracuda.com/product/ContentShield/doc/73699516/how-to-clear-the-hsts-cache-or-disable-hsts-for-firefox/

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Security Report Card

7th March 2022

Backups: Automated backups & tested +1, offsite +1, encrypted +1 versioned controlled OR immutable +1, our data in cloud services is also backed up +2 Hardware: support contract OR spare…

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Use SpamHaus threat feeds with Fortigate

29th June 2021

SpamHaus is a well known service that keeps a curated downloadable list of Internet offenders. to see a link to the list https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ You can see the DROP list and…

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SMB Security Maturity Levels

23rd June 2021

Level 1: Free / easy / 1 hour fixes-Block China, Russia, Ukraine on your firewall and email-Turn on email banner for external emails-make sure PCs are running a version of…

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A case for port security

12th June 2021

Port security watches for multiple MAC addresses on a port and if it detects >1 it disables the port. Pros:+If a user tries running responder, the port gets disabled+If a…

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Privilege Escalation on modern versions of Linux

11th June 2021

Ubuntu 18+ and a number of other modern distros using Polkit have a vuln that allows privilege escalation to root.a video by the bug’s discoverer shows it’s not that hard…

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