Monthly Archives: October 2019
The Best Home Lab For System Administrators
This home lab is great for anyone who is just starting off their IT career and looking to get a step up in knowledge by chasing after it. If your a System Administrator already get yourself a lab anyways because the more you know the better.
Having a Home Lab builds your confidence because you obtain the technical know how for deploying new infrastructures. You gain confidence because you have created the environments you currently work with or you create a similar clients environment in your home lab then you learn what could happen and what will happen and how to go about troubleshooting or setups and migrations. As someone that has their own Home Lab I do know the benefits of it and what knowledge you would gain from it. As an employer I ask every interviewee if they have a home lab or not because this lets me … Read the rest
How To Fix OneDrive High CPU Usage
OneDrive high CPU usage problem
- Open Task Manager, right-click the Microsoft OneDrive process and select End Task and the restart one drive to see if it works.
- If step one has not resolved the issue, open Task manager again and end the OneDrive process and exit OneDrive , afterwards navigate to the following location in File Explorer:
– C:\Users\yourusername\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\setup\logs - Locate the following two hidden files and delete them from the folder.
- UserTelemetryCache.otc
- UserTelemetryCache.otc.session
- Now restart OneDrive and see if it is now working properly.
- If nothing helps, you may have to uninstall OneDrive completely and reinstall it again. OneDrive Download
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- How Generative AI Impacts Email Security
What Are The Top Office365 HIPAA Mistakes
Office365 is a fantastic product, and it can certainly be HIPAA-compliant. But only if you take the time to set everything up the right way for the organization.
Here the top Office365 HIPAA mistakes that we see organizations make:
Free Outlook.com is not HIPAA compliant! Unfortunately, Microsoft’s HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) doesn’t cover their free email. That means there’s no way to make your free Outlook.com compliant with HIPAA. Let me mention that using free email is also unprofessional.
Rushing through the setup. A proper office365 configuration should take around 3 to 5 hours to do a proper setup to meet compliance with industry best practices. If you didn’t spend a similar amount of time, there’s more work to do.
Don’t mess up the HIPAA BAA. Did you even read the Microsoft BAA? I doubt it… The BAA is the FIRST step to being HIPAA-compliant. A lot of practices
Keeping Windows 7 Will Put Companies And Users At Risk
Keeping Windows 7 will put Companies and users at risk if they do not move onto Windows 10. Microsoft will terminate support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020 and this is coming up quickly there is not much time.
It’s not just Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 that are approaching the end of life. This table shows you the Microsoft products that are approaching the end of life.
| Operating System | End of life date |
| Windows 7 | January 14th 2020 |
| Windows Server 2008 | January 14th 2020 |
| Office 2010 | October 13th 2020 |
| Windows Server 2012 | January 10th 2023 |
| Windows 8 / 8.1 | January 10th 2023 |
| Office 2013 | April 11th 2023 |
| Windows 10 | October 14th 2025 |
| Office 2016 | October 14th 2025 |
What is end of life?
Products go through life cycles and as a company produces a new version of software the one it replaces heads towards end of life. When … Read the rest
Government Database On 92M Brazilians Found For Sale
A Government Database on 92 million Brazilians was found for sale on a dark web forum. Following a tip-off from a analyst known as Breach Radar, a BleepingComputer reporter investigated the auction of an alleged government database containing the personal information.
It was found that the seller called X4Crow was claiming that the database includes personal information such as names, mother’s name, gender, dates of birth and taxpayer IDs of the 92 million citizens. The data is sorted across provinces in Brazil, and a sample acquired by Ilascu verified the accuracy of this claim. BleepingComputer also has information to suggest that this is a government database.
Ionut Ilascu found that the database was being auctioned across multiple restricted access dark web marketplaces. The starting price for this 16GB, SQL format, database is $15,000
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- How to Spot and Report Cybercrime Effectively
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5 Points To Success In A Zero Trust Model
If you did not know already, a Zero Trust security model is based on the creation of zones and segmentation to control sensitive IT resources. This also entails the deployment controls to monitor and manage data between zones, and more importantly, user interactions within a zone(s).
Based on the Forrester Research the Zero Trust Model of information security is built on the assumption that any person or device with access to an organization’s data is a threat to the enterprise. Zero Trust protects sensitive data by limiting access to only those who require it and strictly enforcing access through intelligent access control and network segmentation.
5 Points To Success In A Zero Trust Model
Here are 5 essential steps to establish a successful Zero Trust Model in your organization or for your clients.
- Identify your sensitive data at rest and in motion
- Perform data discovery and classification
- Segment and zone
How To Easily Send Secure Files To Someone
Firefox Send allows you to securely and easily share small to large file sizes which is perfect for docs and sharing graphic files or collaborating with co-workers on a presentation. With Send you can share file sizes up to 1GB quickly. To send files up to 2.5GB, sign up for a free Firefox account.
The software uses end-to-end encryption to keep your data secure from the moment you share to the moment your file is opened. It also offers security controls that you can set. You can choose when your file link expires, the number of downloads, and whether to add an optional password for an extra layer of security.
Firefox Send makes it easy for your recipient, too. No hoops to jump through. They simply receive a link to click and download the file. They don’t need to have a Firefox account to access your file. Overall, this … Read the rest
Best HIPAA Compliant UTM Firewalls
Do you know what UTM firewalls are the best to use to be HIPAA compliant? Is your Network Secure? How is your organization doing with UTM Firewall logging? If you don’t know the answer to these questions, you’re not alone.
I am going to bluntly state that medical offices need to have a UTM Firewall (Unified Threat Manager Firewall) appliance. These types of Firewalls will make it more simpler for you to pass a HIPAA audit. Inspectors from Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) check that patient health information (PHI) is secure in its storage, transference, and disposal. A firewall allows or denies access to anywhere PHI is kept.
Your Firewalls should have application-level inspection
To protect PHI data the UTM Firewall can authenticate access within applications that healthcare uses to provide care. In networking terms, layer 7 of the OSI is the application layer. The … Read the rest
Simple Checklist For Creating A Business Continuity Plan
No one can predict the future; however, you can be ready with a sound business continuity plan. The business continuity checklist is the first step in the BCP process. The checklist is not an exhaustive list, it is a simple tool that can be used to ensure that the basic BCP process has been initiated and the Division management has considered what needs to be done to keep essential functions operating if an adverse event occurs. The checklist is somewhat “information centric” as organisation’s reliance on information is increasing and its successful management provides a competitive advantage.
- Tackling Shadow IT: The Unseen Network Security Risk
- How to Spot and Report Cybercrime Effectively
- IT Management Strategies For Startups
- 3 Common Mistakes in IT Operations You Can’t Afford to Make
- How Generative AI Impacts Email Security
Apple iTunes Bug Exploited To Deliver Ransomware
The Hackers have been exploiting the “unquoted path” flaw in the Bonjour updater in iTunes for Windows to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware.
The Researchers from Morphinsec Labs have identified this flaw with Bonjour updater back in August the team from Morphisec immediately disclosed the vulnerability to Apple. Apple has recently patched the flaw for Windows. Windows desktops will still need to rely on iTunes for the foreseeable future even though Apple is dropping iTunes in their own ecosystem.
The type vulnerability allowed a combination of BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware to be exploited. The attack exploits an unquoted path vulnerability in Bonjour, which is a software that organizations may not even know is running on their systems, the firm said in a Thursday posting.
This vulnerability makes it easy for attackers to evade common detection because most of the Antivirus programs now a days are based on behavior monitoring, and the Bonjour component … Read the rest
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