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I am sitting at my desk doing what I love—training Acture/CSI’s next generation of engineers. I am teaching them about Active Directory theory and operations. I am demonstrating how the Active Directory Recycle Bin works. I created a test ID in AD – Steve McQueen.

“And now for something completely different.” -Monty Python’s Flying Circus If you have been in the industry for a while, you have heard the warning, “Internet Explorer (IE) is dead. It is insecure. It has been retired. You must get off Internet Explorer and onto a more modern and secure browser.

“It Got Weird, Didn’t It?” -Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me I just attended the Huntress Security Event in NYC. It was at the Spy Museum on 8th Avenue (a cool place). I returned from that event to the office very afraid for all of us – myself included.

“This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end.” -Jim Morrison of The Doors October 14, 2025, marks the end of the line for our tried-and-true, stable, and generally “good enough” Windows 10 OS. Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10 have proven to be very stable OSes that we haven’t had […]

I read an article today in which a judge declared that Google monopolized search. Well, that is a big duh! How long did it take the government to figure that out? Today, I will not debate the merits of Google’s status. I have a far more serious security concern to discuss.

I stare at the Paladin Sentinel Monitoring Console every morning and see what happened with our monitored servers and networks overnight. I see many patterns and similar events happening between your networks. Here is one of my pet peeves of what I often see with a free suggestion to help keep me calm in my […]

I read the other day that today is “Worldwide Backup Awareness Day.” I have no idea who declares these days. I am guessing you already know you should have good backups and air-gapped backups. However, I am taking the liberty of morphing this into more sophisticated forms of backups.

A year ago, my very short wife sat in a restaurant during March Madness on a bar stool that was too tall for her. The result was that while getting down off the stool, she blew out a disk in her back and was in tremendous pain. We went to a local ortho walk-in clinic.

It seems like Cyber Attacks are happening everywhere these days. Whether it’s a national news report of an attack against a company that has your credit card information or local news reporting a school district like yours that’s been hit with a ransomware/data breach, these stories are plentiful.

Microsoft has tried hard to increase awareness of “pass the hash” attacks. They have been patching, but the threats keep coming. Back in April Microsoft released something quite awesome – their next-generation Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS). Quite simply LAPS allows you to automatically rotate the password for a designated “local administrator” account on endpoints.