In the digital age, the security of personal and organizational data is paramount, and password managers have become essential tools in safeguarding this information. As cyber threats evolve, the need for robust security algorithms that can withstand brute-force attacks, quantum computing advances, and sophisticated password cracking tools is more critical

Well you certainly do not see this everyday looking through Threat Intel reports. Not much else to say, see screenshots for a good chuckle. 😄 Do we need a new MITRE Attack Pattern named after this? How do you tell people about this happening to you? That is all folks. Still

I do not usually do hardware reviews, nor do I plan on it. That being said, I was prepping a new very well equipped top of the line laptop for a customer, and wanted to benchmark it a bit for fun. This laptop has the 13th Gen i7-13700H 13the Gen

Password security Tip #1032 . Assuming your using a top notch Password Manager, and if your not, you should be! See below an example of creating your master password, or any password, that can greatly increase the complexity, AND be easy to remember. Your master password for a password manager should

I have been running HoneyPot's on and off for a few years, but recently have put one up permanently the last few months for more intel and for public use, learning and entertainment. You can see statistics and live attacks on the Live HoneyPot dashboard links page below.

Today I wanted to take you guys through a better than average phishing email that a customer received and requested we restore for them. The reason? "It is from a normal vendor who sends statements". How many times do we hear that? :) So our Phishing platform caught it,

After creating the OpenCTI install / howto articles a while back, I thought it would be a great idea to launch a live fully functional instance for the public to use and learn. The public user has read only access, but you can research on all the latest threats, and browse

So thought I would write a quick article on a typical scam that's been going around forever in various forms. This is where a user gets an email with a call to action saying "this has expired" or "problem with your account" etc. then

The 80's, what a wonderful time to be alive! Not just because personal computers as we know it were just coming into existence, but just in general! Times were good! Us kids played outside from dawn to dusk, there was so much less distractions, life was simpler. It

I was playing around with Grafana recently to setup a live and historical ping, latency and packet loss dashboard for my own company use, and then figured it could be helpful to the general public. I played around with other options like SmokePing, StatPing, and Uptime Kuma. All of these

So whats this post all about?  Well I thought I would discuss and give you my general thoughts on the viability of running Linux as your Main OS instead of Windows.  Gone are the days of the complexity of installing, configuring and using Linux operating systems.  I remember having to

Kevin Mitnick recently died due to Pancreatic Cancer and I thought I would write some thoughts on this famous hacker who once was quite the troublemaker who went to prison, who then turned white hat and changed his ways. Despite what you think of Kevin, his contributions to Cybersecurity are

Have you been increasingly frustrated with 365's degraded performance, outages, and skyrocketing Graph API Health Service Incident notifications?  You are not imagining it.  There is a reason for this, threat actors have been carrying out Level 7 DDOS attacks on the corporate giants infrastructure.   The group responsible for

Fair warning.... This is a blog post written by the ChatGPT4 language model to show a real world example of cranking out a blog post in seconds. :) Even the title page image at the top was created using DALL-E simply by using the text "Artificial Intelligence Blog Picture"

No, this isn't the start of some Horror film... It is where the Internet lives.   You may have seen this building, or perhaps if your lucky enough, went into the beautiful lobby at some special event.  Average folks, don't give this iconic building, that looks rather

We now have a Public facing CVE lookup and alerting platform for general/public use!  You can search for any vendor, CVE, keyword etc.  The great thing is, anybody can sign up quick for an account, verify their email and be on their way to subscribed CVE alerts! Once you

This post might ruffle some feathers, and full disclaimer right off the bat. 2FA/MFA is good, and should be used, its better than not using it.  I am starting to see an alarming trend across the internet, forums,  security folks, MSP's all chanting in unison, 2FA!  2FA!

Jim Punzenberger had me on as a guest on his podcast.  Short good little episode, check it out!

Another great site we setup for our customers, I am making available to anyone who wants to use it, is our https://pdf.netmanageit.com site. This site is extremely easy to use, and has many features and PDF manipulation tools that you usually only see in the Pro version

While many use Ookla speedtest, one of the best, and there is nothing wrong with that.  I spun up our own dedicated speedtest site in our NYC Datacenter.  The site is hooked to a 2gbit connection. If you want a second opinion, or the speed test site you like to

One often overlooked part of SMB IT Infrastructure is the Server Room / Wiring Closet and the HVAC implications. Often times we see SMB's especially prone to totally ignoring this very important aspect of your Network. We are talking about the one centralized room that houses and safeguards all

The Cloud... lets just say I am torn a bit. Its a love hate relationship, there are some good things about the ever growing momentum and push to the cloud. There are also some bad things, many not even noticed in the obvious sense, until some NOC tech fat fingers