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- Krebs on Security
- How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?
- U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group
- Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims
- Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
- FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data
- Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
- Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?
- Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
- Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense
- Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Great Internet testing site
Test DNS, find IP information and more
Posted in Computer Security, Computers, Education, Information Technology, network, Networking, Technology
Tagged dns test, firewall test, ip lookup, reverse lookup, site test, website test
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Installing unsigned drivers on Windows 8
Windows 8 only wants signed drivers and you can receive errors if you try to install a device with a driver that is not signed. Here’s a solution. (Be sure to read the comment by Louis also)
Posted in Computer Security, Computers, Information Technology
Tagged drivers, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8 drivers
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Samsung printers contain hardcoded backdoor account, US-CERT warns
“Printers manufactured by Samsung have a backdoor administrator account hard coded in their firmware that could enable attackers to change their configuration, read their network information or stored credentials and access sensitive information passed to them by users.” Samsung printers … Continue reading
What is the tiny partition found in Windows 7 disk management?
Have you ever noticed the small ‘System Reserved’ partition in Windows 7 under disk management? This small partition is new in Windows 7 and has a couple of functions. It holds Boot Manager code and the Boot Configuration Database … Continue reading
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Tagged microsoft windows, small partition in Windows 7, Windows, windows 7
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Which Tablet or Laptop should I buy on Cyber Monday?
Which tablet? Nexus 7 or 10 Asus Transformer iPad, iPad mini Motorola Xoom Samsung Toshiba Don’t buy cheap tablets. Stick with brand names.Most cheap pads don’t come with Google Play (App Store) and don’t get updates – Again, avoid these. … Continue reading
Free Risk Indexing Tool Offers Start For Assessments – Dark Reading
Ponemon and Edelman hope to offer benchmark for organizations that want to know where their data privacy risk posture standsFree Risk Indexing Tool Offers Start For Assessments – Dark Reading.
Slide Show: The Vulnerability ‘Usual Suspects’ Of 2012 – Darkreading
“Suspect software that causes security –Slide Show: The Vulnerability ‘Usual Suspects’ Of 2012 – Darkreading.”
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Adobe Hacker Says He Used SQL Injection To Grab Database Of 150,000 User Accounts – Dark Reading
Exposed passwords were MD5-hashed and ‘easy to crack’ via free cracking tools, he saysAdobe Hacker Says He Used SQL Injection To Grab Database Of 150,000 User Accounts – Dark Reading.
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Study Finds More Than 10,000 ID Fraud Rings In the U.S. – Dark Reading
Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida are among the hotspots for identity theftStudy Finds More Than 10,000 ID Fraud Rings In the U.S. – Dark Reading.
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Companies Need Defenses Against Mobile Malware – Dark Reading
While infection rates — at least in the U.S. — remain low, cybercriminals are writing more malware for Android, Symbian, and other platforms. At some point, they’ll find the right recipe for profitCompanies Need Defenses Against Mobile Malware – Dark … Continue reading
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WMIC – Another valuable tool in Windows
What is WMIC? (Don’t forget Powershell and Netsh – other powerful tools) Need to find out your system information? Type WMIC computersystem list full at a command prompt Find detailed MAC Address information Type wmic nic get macaddress,description Find detailed … Continue reading
Stop print jobs using DOS
You can use this simple batch file to stop and start your spooler. Open notepad, copy the code below and save as printerfix.bat (You will have to change the file type to all files). This is a great tool … Continue reading
Use Xcopy to copy from one drive to another
Want a backup that is reliable? Use xcopy c:\documents\*.* d:\ /S /D /Y This will compare and copy files that have changed and any new copies. You can also copy this to notepad and make a batch file. Open Notepad … Continue reading
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Windows Update Installer from the command line
Here’s a utility to help you install updates from the command line. We have had success with this when the GUI failed. WuInstall Usage (First unzip the download to a folder) At the command line in the folder (use cd\yourfolder … Continue reading
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Tagged Microsoft, microsoft windows, Windows update, Windows updates, Wuinstall
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Wind Map of the U.S.
Here’s a great wind map of the U.S. Hurricane Sandy Archive
Have you lost your router’s default password?
If you have reset your router and can’t find documentation online or in your office, you can check http://www.routerpasswords.com/. Routerpasswords offer an online database of default passwords for routers.
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TTC Shelbyville Blog Ratings
TTC Shelbyville’s Technical Blog Ratings from Technorati 1,314,457 Blogs – Total Ranked 12928 Top 1% 37764 Blogs – Information Technology Ranked 3249 Top 8%
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Over 500 tech links
Need resources for technical information? Looking for the best technical blogs on the web? Bookmarks4Techs has over 500 resources and is one of the largest resources on the web for technical blogs. Check out the collection of Freeware … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Bookmarks4techs, higher ed, higher education, Linux, mac, tech blogs, Technical Blog links, Technical Blogs, Whats On My PC, Windows
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TCAT Shelbyville - ITIM 