by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 27, 2018 | Security-related
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a webinar for Semperis, on the topic of protecting AD from attackers. I presented 5 tips on the things you can do within your AD and Windows environments, to protect against “information exposure” that might allow an attacker...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 23, 2017 | Security-related
I saw a humorous tweet today that said something to the effect that the number of blog posts about the recent “WannaCry” ransomware attack have now exceeded the number of infected machines. I am loathe to add truth to that saying, but I, of course, have...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 3, 2017 | Security-related
While the title to this post may sound a bit scary or ominous, the subject of this post is definitely real. A fellow IT guy whom I’ve known for many years, alerted me to a situation he came across in an IT shop he was helping. Namely, the customer’s...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 10, 2016 | Security-related
I had a chance to attend my first BlackHat/Defcon conference last week in Las Vegas. I also attended the very excellent BSides conference, happening concurrently. Besides being shaken to my core from the skills demonstrated during the week :-), I got a chance to see...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 16, 2016 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, Security-related
Hello Group Policy fans enthusiasts happy people! Darren and I had a quick discussion about his script to remediate the problems created by applying MS16-072 and GP processing. Read Darren’s previous post for context but here is a recording of our discussion....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 17, 2016 | Security-related
Here’s the scenario: You’ve got some Windows servers that contain critical customer data–it might be customer records, or PCI (Payment Card Industry) data, or just a critical system on your network. You rightly use Group Policy Restricted Groups...
