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What should I do in the mean time?
Okay, the the spiel. I going to centriq, not really a college but classes that help you get certified. The classes is 8 months long, and m-f from 6pm to 10pm. When I complete centriq, I should come out with a+, mta networking, security+, ccent (if I work really hard and study.) Here my question. Should I start early and…
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Training videos for security
If I want to learning networking, I can use INE, if I want to learn Linux/Azure/AWS I can use LinuxAcademy, I was wondering if there are any good video training sites for security?
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Apple security team received ransomware note- pay or 300 million phones get wiped
Hackers Threaten to Remotely Wipe 300 Million iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom Don't know if I can beleive it, but you never know with all these tools being available now.
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Need Help about Password being asked to reset again and again....
Hi Everyone I know this is definitively not the place to ask this question but i need help ASAP. I have been asked to change my password so many time. Every time i log off and try to log back in next day, it will say wrong password and i will have to reset the password. This is becoming so annoying. Does anybody having…
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Do you use a Password Manager software? If so, chime in!
I noticed on /. that LastPass was hacked and was looking for a few other recommended pw mgmt software packages. In the past, I have used the pw excel spreadsheet (I know, dumdumdedumdum!) but I guess its better than in notepad or Word w/o any sort of pw to get into it.…
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I can wear a long coat now !
After 9 years of obtaining A+ and Network+, I am surprised employers still look into those. I got a dream job in IT which I always wanted. Tired of working in mailroom. Worked with Temp Agency as PC Tech for a year $13/hr and now I am a Client Technologies Technician in a hospital with $48K PAY full benefits. I remember…
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training courses on your resume?
Does anyone here list their completed training courses on their resume? I have a list of about 10 or so from FedVTE, cybrary, and Skillsoft. Some are for CCSP prep, or securing the network perimeter, stuff that is all relevant. Not sure if I should be listing those on my resume? Obviously I have my actual certs listed but…
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ccna cyber ops or college for cyber security?
I really want to get into cyber security. Which is the best route to go? school for cyber security or getting my certs in cyber security? Thank you very much.
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Your pro tips that make your life easier as a Network Engineer.
These tips don't have to be crazy technical, things along the lines of: * Environment setup* Do you find a particular OS has features that enable your job? * Preferred terminal configuration (Fonts/Colors/Font-size) * Monitor arrangement (Single, Dual, Multiple) * Documentation aids* Keeping a notepad close by? * Using a…
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eLearnSecurity webinar: Fuzzing for Security and Stability starts soon
Today at 12:00 PM CDT (US). Sign up here. Really looking forward to this. https://www.elearnsecurity.com/resources/webinars/fuzzing
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INE Rack tokens
Has anyone every sold INE rack tokens? I am looking to sell mine. I have 2175 tokens I am not going to use anytime soon since I made the career change (security non-cisco). Sorry If this post does not belong here, I tried looking up the old "for sale" thread we had going but could not find it tagged anywhere. Thanks
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US-Cert: HTTPS Interception Weakness
So I'm sure you guys may have heard the news about HTTPS interception weaknesses concerning certificate validation. If you haven't heard check out the following article on DarkReading, US-CERT Warns That HTTPS Inspection Tools Weaken TLS. Personally, I am surprised that numerous HTTPS Interception products do not properly…
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Skype for Business
Hey everyone, Our company has recently moved to office 365 and using s4b now as their IM. Currently users aren't able to save their conversation history as that option is unticked and greyed out. How do I undo this and enable this feature? Thanks for any help
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Infosec Standards Nist/ISO
Question to the masses. Anyone here use or follow standards my last company we were ISO 2700 compliant but my current company no one knows what standards if any.
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Building a drone (quadcopter?)
I'm looking to get into some hands on things. It's still cold in Michigan so I can ride my motorcycle and I don't have enough money to buy an AR15 at the moment. Anywhere here every built a drone with some advice on where to start? I've been doing google searching on it and I'm coming from zero knowledge on the subject.…
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What else motivate you?
I can write a long list of things that demotivate me from studying for certs; but that's not what this thread's about. To make it concise and useful, I have two questions: 1) I found that looking at jobs that pay 2x times my current salary motivate me. So I guess money is the motivator here? It's strange because I don't…
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O365 experts
Why do "Shared Mailboxes" not need a email license ?
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wifi setup at home
Alright so we live in a townhouse. There's an upstairs, main floor and basement. We would like to be able to extend the signal about 50 ft outside of the townhouse and eliminate buffering. Any one got any suggestions for powerful wifi routers? I've have had a bad experience with using a wifi extender. The main wifi router…
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Certifications and C-level Positions.
This might have been a topic already but I cant find it anymore. My end goal is to be a executive I want to reach the C- level but I wont be disappointed as a VP. I'm constantly researching people in those positions and I noticed most don't have any type of certifications. I find most directors and above only have degrees…
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Shawn Moore. PDF: Configure The Network
I'm trying to contact Shawn Moore. I've sent an email, using the address on here [http://shawnmoorecisco.blogspot.co.uk/], but no reply. Of course, it could be he's just choosing not to reply. Was he associated with or a member of this site in the past? It's just I have a question relating to a PDF document (Configure The…
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Windows Media Player Question
Was doing a lot of online research and I'm going up with a big fat zero. Anyone ran across running Windows Media Player with the following arguments: /prefetch:11 /Query:3;4;1;? What does it do? I believe it is just bringing up the library, but not 100% sure.
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COBIT 5 Processes For Security Question
Hello members this is my very first post, i got a thesis for my university and i'm stuck in the final sub chapter.It is a general scenario with a company that uses COBIT5 framework and is outsourced in a public cloud vendor IaaS.I want to write down specific vulnerabilities/related risks that may have, and also the…
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Blog
Is there a benefit to having a blog?
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Forwarding internal email (thrown under the bus?)
Curious on other's take on a situation. We recently contracted a vendor out for some work. Seemed to be a lot of confusion between my company's management and the vendor about expectations of the deliverables. I sent my boss somewhat of a degrading email on our vendors performance. He forwarded it to them with his take…
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Answering questions as a way of learning
What are your thoughts on going to specific forums / blogs and answering questions for users, as a way of learning? I've been hitting up 3 different SQL forums and answering a lot of questions for people who are struggling with queries etc. Do you think this is a legit way of learning and bettering yourself? I am trying to…
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Locking Down Windows 10 Workstations - Windows 10 Microphone Listening 24/7 ?
I noticed my Windows 10 Professional installations enable microphone voice capture by default without consent, meaning "Cortana" is likely listening 24/7 and collecting data. This occurs, even after disabling all data collection/sync switches during the installation prompts. Additionally, I found: - Running "netstat -an"…
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CIA Hacking Into Smart TV's, etc
WikiLeaks releases 'entire hacking capacity of the CIA' | Fox News I'm sure everyone has heard about this by now. Yesterday, WikiLeaks released documents stating that the CIA is hacking into Smart TV's, cell phones and more. This wouldn't be news if it was the NSA, but this is by the CIA. Everyone knew that the NSA has the…
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IT Folks: What is your daily "wake up" drink of choice?
Hi everyone, What is your daily "wake up" drink? (coffee, energy drink, tea, etc?). I don't think I could do IT work without some kind of drink to wake me up out of Zombie mode. For me, I rotate one week of coffee, then one week of energy drinks (no redbulls unless for a test). To be more specific I like to drink…
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Hardest Cert
I understand people are in different fields, but I'm just interested to know in your own opinion what is the most difficult certification test out there?
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The 'know-it-all'
How do you deal with the 'know-it-all' in the office? you know, the guy who knows everything, has done everything, and doesn't shut up.. any tips?
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Spyware app for mobile
Alright so, we have a kid who could be talking to people who they shouldn't talking to online. Anyone know of any apps for monitoring the applications like text messaging, whats app, maybe a keylogger for the andoid games where people can chat with each other? The kid was caught before but now she might delete the messages…
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AWS S3 Outage
Anyone having a bad day? Hope everyone's BCP plan is working as designed.
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Advice on working desktop support at NYC hedge fund
Hello Everyone, I was recently offered a job at a prestigious NYC hedge fund. My official title is desktop support and I may be handling small projects/minor sys-admin work. I've primarily worked in the suburbs and not in a fast-paced financial institution. I have worked for an MSP so I've been in high-pressure situations.…
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Bypassing Next Gen AV For Fun and Profit
Here's a little write up I did with one of the anti-viruses I'm having to look at. I hope this helps with anyone interested in how does some of the certs apply to real life. I'm glad to have this off my mind! https://virtualizedcomputing.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/bypassing-next-gen-av-for-fun-and-profit/ Just hope that…
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CTNS via Teracom
Is Teracom legit/accredited? Says on their website that they are recognized by TCO (Telco certification organization).
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DoD 8570 Gives Way to DoD 8140
DoD 8570 Gives Way to DoD 8140, Specifies Security Certs for Government Workers | Pearson IT Certification Interesting article by Ed Tittel.
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CIS Benchmarks
Holy moly, folks! I downloaded quite a few of the CIS Benchmarks and started to look through them. I opened the first one, for Windows 10 Enterprise, and nearly choked on my meal...931 pages long! If you've ever read through one of their benchmark documents, you know they don't have a lot of fluff. To say the least, with…
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Helpdesk to SysAdmin to Cisco - Resume question
Hello everyone, my post today is about what I should include on my resume for about my 2 years experience doing phone help desk, 5 years experience doing system admin/help desk. I want to merge into the Network/Security/Forensics arena. I want to touch the switches and routers and do packet tracing and forensics type…
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Carrier-side voice material for study
Hello, I work for a medium ISP who have switched to carrier voice stuff in the last year. Our work is now heavily voice related. We are encouraged to take pressure of our Voice Team but at the same time the NOC is essentially self-learning, no training provided. I can find info from the customers perspective but not from a…
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Enterprise network monitoring tools for Cisco (and non-Cisco) devices
Hey ladies & gents, I would be very curious to find out what's your take on network device monitoring software. I've recently been tasked with looking deeper into commercial solutions to monitor large estates of IP telephony and supporting data switches & / or routers. Device stats (SNMP) along with QoS (IP SLA)…
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Audio/Video Editing Software Recommendation
Hello Everyone, Just have a quick question/need a recommendation. I am using a Windows 7 Laptop and Windows 10 Laptop. I want to know what you use for Audio editing and Video editing (prefer cheap or free options). I just installed Audacity for my laptop and learning that. I will be updating it to include Windows Movie…
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Book or E-book?
What do you guys/gals prefer when reading? A physical book or an e-book on a tablet/phone/computer? I have e-books on Network+ and Security+ but am having a hard time following the e-book as opposed to a physical book. Anyone else have the same trouble or have some things they do/use to make it easier?
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Cisco raised exam prices
Hello, heroes. I just discovered that Cisco increased the cost for the CCNA, CCNP and CCIE written. There you go, a link to post: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/105113 Have a good day.
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When Would You Consider Yourself An Expert?
Today at work I was thinking about at what point would you consider yourself an expert on a piece of technology? Some of the work I've been doing could be useful in a consulting role, but my fear is that I won't have an immediate answer without doing some research. A lot of the technology doesn't have certifications and…
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AD/OU Question
We are looking at restructuring our AD at my current company. Currently we have it broken into a geographical structure. Regions, then broken down into OU's for organization purposes in each region such as HR, IT etc.. We recognize this as not being good because there are no policies applied to these OU's they are just…
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Best/Recommended SharePoint resources?
At the 3 previous global financial firms I worked at, SharePoint was a huge thing for our team's intranet site, and data repository. At my current employer they just got started with it, and it's pretty crude in it's current implementation from both an aesthetic and functional standpoint. I'd love to offer to improve it…
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Need help in preparing security policy from scratch!
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)][FONT="]Dear All, [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)][FONT="]I am in the process of creating security policy for databases from scratch. Currently I am referring to templates available through SANS website but looking for something better as well. There are lot of similar…
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What do you love about your job?
It's Valentine's Day and what would today be without some love. What do you love to do at your job or what do you love about your job? I love research and investigation, trying to figure things out. I love a good challenge and trying to fix things. (Ok, full disclosure I'm not currently employed because I'm still studying…
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Cyber Security Learning Resources
This looks like an interesting list of resources for learning https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/train-your-cyber-skills-online-updated-joe-shenouda?trk=main_nav
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Southwest CCDC 2017 Quals
It was great to compete in the competition. Little frustrated with the environment but not much what you can do about that. Have a lot of notes that the team is compiling so that next year won't be such a head banger. I've written a review on my blog:…
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Recommended book for information security policies
Hi all, I know there are a number of books out there that deal in guides/templates for information security policies. Just wanted to see which ones were recommend or more highly rated?
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Estimate Power Consumption for Devices in Server Rack?
I'm new at this and have been asked to figure out how much power is being used by what we currently have in our server racks and also prepare for future expansion. I'm thinking I could look at vendor information on power usage of the device? Just wondering how others have done it. thanks ***EDIT*** I'm also aware there is…
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Differences between IOS 12.2 and 15.0 on a Catalyst switch
Let's say you're running a Catalyst switch at home on your personal LAN. Are you likely to notice any differences when upgrading from IOS 12.2 to 15.0?
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Powershell array searching help
Can any one help With out using a for loop how can a search an array pulled back from AD So i have list of items $ADusers = Get-aduser then I want to say $user = the item in $aduser where $aduser.givenname = "WAH" -and "$ADusers.surname = "Devil" $ADusers is returned as a system.object and i can loop through but this is…
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SCCM 2012 push causing Office 2013 to be deleted
Has any of you guys encountered this at work? Using SCCM to push out Office 2016 to multiple Windows 7 PCs causing the Office 2013 in the target client PCs to be completely removed without installing any of the Office 2016. If it makes any difference the users are all have Office 365 accounts. What would cause a situation…
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Cisco Hardware Supplier BS!
Hi all, I want to know if I have been ripped off for the past several years purchasing cisco hardware or not, while conducting a routinely check on GPL on itprice.com I saw a 'Get Discount' button. While browsing to there, I saw ASA 5506 with base licenses listed for 336$?!?! I find that very difficult to believe I have…
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Distro suggestion
Looking for a new linux distro after finding out how Ubuntu works updates, I wasn't too happy. I'm looking for a new distro to use, will likely be on several systems in my network eventually. Looking for something that is stable, but I can expect security updates to be released as soon as they are available or very soon…
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How to Expect script to configure many Cisco routers at once
Hello all, Wanted to know if anyone knows of a good resource to learn all the ins and outs to using expect for making Cisco IOS configuration changes. Scenario is I have an EEM configuration I'd like to enter on 50 routers or so. I have SSH access to each of them. How can I learn from the ground up to perfom this sort of…
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Powershell and Python books
I'm looking for some advice on Powershell and Python scripting books. In particular, I want to get ones that explain the them from novice on up. I have had only one programming class in college so I'm not well versed in programming.
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Love getting stuff like this in the mail (great OSINT resource)
Open Source Intelligence Techniques by Michael Bazzell 5th edition. I took his online Intelligence gathering course a couple of years ago and was fairly impressed. Just upgraded from the 3rd edition book that came with the course. If you want to learn great ways of gathering open source intelligence, and the proper tool…
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Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report
For those interested, here's the Verizon 2016 DBIR: 2016 DBIR: Understand Your Cybersecurity Threats | Verizon Enterprise Solutions Oh, the 2017 DBIR should be out the end of April 2017. I'll post an early link here when available.
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Thin Client PCs in 2017
Hey Guys , If you have some time on hand and want to share some ideas for the sake of it i have a request, I'm currently A Product manager for a large ISP and we dabble a lot on cloud services. if you read my other posts (only 1 thread) you ll get a better picture but the gist of it is i'm leaving the company soon and the…
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What do you do when you can't get the information you need to do your job?
Anything from whether or not to use the red or the green cable to what software to put on a device to whether or not to install a system somewhere. I've quite often found myself in situations where I just couldn't get a reply as to what course of action my superiors wanted me to take. This always leaves me in a very…
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Remote Support solutions
Hello Guys, Need some input on remote support solutions. I need something I'm able to remote log in to company provided computers without having to ask for any key or permission (no team viewer). What we need: Need to connect to unattended computers without issues. Central management console or dashboard that we can…
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SOC Contracts
An SOC is a Security Operation Center. They are an organization that sells their third party expertise in administering the security for a companies IT infrastructure. For those of y'all in management what have some SOC contracts been like? I mean as far as the cost, the minimum contract length, and all of that. At which…
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Great deals on Wired - today only
There are a few good deals on here if you are interested. https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2017/02/get-dell-inspiron-15-core-i7-cpu-just-549/ Keep scrolling to find the Dell 17in laptop for $589. Cheers & HI5!
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Storage Area Network - Reading?
Any suggestions on reading to get up to speed on SANs? Thanks in advance!
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Fortinet provides free access to NSE courses
Ran across this today Fortinet Promotes Cybersecurity Education by Providing Universal Access to Its Network Security Expert Courses https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/news-events/press-releases/2017/promotes-cybersecurity-education-nse-courses.html
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What to study for security?
I seem to have followed the completely opposite route to infosec from most people on here. I won't be studying for a degree until the end of the year, I don't have any hardcore network admin experience, and I don't know how to pen test. My previous roles were mostly in compliance, risk management, and a lot of security…
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Hardware security?
Need some feedback from the community here in regards to hardware security. I'll be working on a very sensitive system and need to ask a few questions to the people that will do the installation. So when it comes to hardware security what type of questions would you ask? So far i have a few questions like, what type of…
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Friday Funny
Just some Friday fun.
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I was asked to write and abstract and ....
Last week, my manager asked myself and one other individual to write an abstract. We were both given a different topic and my manager was going to submit them to the client. The client was then going to weigh in if they wanted to submit it to a big conference (the world big) to see if they would request a full paper. My…
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Blackhat Training Reviews
So despite how many posts I see every few years about how corporate and not worth it blackhat is, they certainly get people in there for the training. The only issue is we don't seem to get much in the way of course reviews. Now I see that most years we have a post about training and people say they are interested, but…
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Google Site Reliability Engineering Book
This was in my twitter feed and thought I would pass it along. You can read it online https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
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What's the best internet options for rural areas?
Well, I'm not sure I can go into more detail than the title. DSL is available, but at only 3mbps down. I have seen satellite internet options at around 12mbps down. I've also threw around the idea of a hotspot through Tmobile, since they started their unlimited hotspots through their tablets in January. Ideas?
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CISCO AP for non profit org
Hi all, I was volunteering for a non profit org and noticed they have some issues connecting newer PCs/laptops to their wifi. Found out they have some old 3com APs that are from the pre-draft N era. I would like to upgrade them but money is tight since it is a non profit. I done some digging and came up with Cisco Aironet…
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Pure Storage
Curious if anyone is currently running a Pure Storage array in their production environment. I have been interested for awhile and their M10 product can possibly get me in at price point that makes sense being a medium sized business with only about 15tb on the storage network. Also curious is anyone is running their flash…
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Owing Taxes is a hard pill to swallow.
Every year my tax refund has gotten smaller and smaller. I knew eventually I would have to adjust my W4 or increase my 401k contributions but this year was shocking. I owe more than 5k and realized the tough understanding of progressive taxes. Not only do I pay more now but all the credits I used to be able to take, now…
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Do all non-IT people play completely IT illiterate around fellow IT peeps?
When I try to explain in the most basic of terms that I work on wireless and firewalls for companies, as soon as I say that one part of a sentence, people are like "Ya lost me 10 minutes ago." Is it just me or is their some stigma if there is an "IT" person in the room, everyone else just goes brain dead in the lobe that…
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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
This site is great if you're a Tesla fan (or coil) Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal
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Interesting couple of weeks..
Well, the president of the company I worked for (who is in the middle of a bitter divorce with his wife)..decides to flee the country, and decides he needs alot of cash..where oh where can he get it? The company! Last week, I was laid off and the company is no more. I have been looking for another job anyway, but still.…
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Keeping track of projects, any good tools to use?
Can anyone suggest any tools that you use to keep track of your tasks and projects? I'm starting to lose track of all the tasks that i have to complete for my projects. Since most of the times i am the PM i need to figure out a method to keep track of all the tasks, so far i am using excel but it's not working very well…
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Trump Admin to introduce new H1B requirements bill.
IT firms: Trump government tables new H-1B bill; techies, IT firms brace for tough future - The Economic Times Of course I see this getting huge pushback from the IT Sector. I think this is both good and bad in ways. Good because it will pretty much destroy the fake IT resume business (aka Flexi-Staffing), it will also…
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code academy
Hi there, While searching the internet for python tutorials, I came across Code Academy. Website: Learn to code | Codecademy Main courses: Codecademy The Python tutorial is kinda cool :) it looks like it's for beginners.
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Another learning to program site
i have not seen this before and it looks like a pretty cool idea exercism.io A little like code academy but different.
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Powershell help!
Hello All, i have written a script that is used to automate application web releases. this script will copy new releases to a temp folder in our prod environment, qc it , if it passes then proceed with a backup of production, qc again then finally deploy the code to production. everything works fine, but every now and then…
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Project Portfolio
All Looking for a way to display a PMO's project portfolio. The objective is to list all of the projects out of this office for convenient viewing on one timeline and when possible, print them on one page. I've been trying to incorporate these projects onto a single timeline in Microsoft project, but the results are kind…
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IT jobs - Do you sit too much?
I ran across this on /. Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years After reading this article, it really only discusses women and how diabetes and aging is progressive by sitting too much. This is probably why eventually I will get outta IT and jump into a more physical job (green remodeling). The last 2 yrs, I have had 2…
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What does this port for/do? * 345 UDP/TCP
All I can find online is that it's for pawserv (Perf Analysis Workbench). Some information pointed to auditing. Does anybody know anything more about this port and the traffic/applications associated with it?
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MDT drivers question
Hi guys we are working with a MDT setup and would like to know the best way to inject drivers into our golden reference image. We work with various manufacturers of laptops / computers so would need drivers for Dell, Lenovo, HP all intergrated into a image. Do driver packs exist? Secondly we currently have the baseline…
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VPN Issue
I have two office locations. A user can vpn into one location and access the shared folders. But when they connect to the second location, they cant access the shared folders. VPN settings are setup correctly, I have checked them with mine. Also on the 2 nd locations server, the RRAS is showing they are connected, but I…
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AP aironet 1142n issue
Walking down the hall one day I noticed an AP that was blinking red, green, and amber. This indicates it cant find the controller. So I went ahead and did the following: - Verified no issue with ethernet cable and port config, can ping controller from switch without issue - Connected to a known working switchport that is…
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LinkedIn will now let you discreetly signal when you’re looking for a job
Not sure if anyone has posted this before. From https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/10/06/now-you-can-privately-signal-to-recruiters-youre-open-to-new-job
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updating an Access db column with a subset from another column in the same table
I have an Orders table in an Access 2003 database with two columns of interest: Person & Person ID Person is a lookup column for another table and shows a concatenation of 'firstName Surname ID', this is a text field The Person Id field is one I have just created and is of type number. For each record I would like to take…
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Network Printer issue
Good morning/afternoon to you all. I wouldn't normally post in the forums here for these issues but i think with the knowledge base here i would be advised best on my issue. So I have a client that has network accessed printer Make: Xerox : Model WorkCentre 6505, now the printer is only used by 3 persons on average and has…
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Do you believe VR is dying?
I live in an area rife with Insurance companies, and they all seem to be interested in Virtual Reality headsets, to the point where several of them have been dedicating some of their best programmers to making mood-altering simulations on it. I can imagine them thinking "Whoa, the millennials are gonna LOVE this, right? We…
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Sdn lab
Hello all I recently discoverd this new concept of network programmability in the new CCNA 200-125 exam and it was just theoritical. With all this theory in my head I'm looking for a way to emulate an SDN network with GNS3 from scratch, came accross some tutorials talking about a mininet(kindoff virtual network with…
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Forescout & Intelligo NAC's
Has anyone had any experience with either of these NAC's? I'm currently looking to implement a NAC on our network and am curious to know the perspective of those who have implemented either device. Thanks in advance