This weekend has been marred by an ongoing outage at major cloud provider Rackspace that is impacting their entire Hosted Exchange offering. After a full day of being down with lackluster (to say the least) communications, Rackspace came out and admitted that they've...
Category: Cybersecurity
Basic Auth is Going Way – What about printers?
Man, I hate printers. But nonetheless, we've got to deal with them. With Basic Authentication finally going away (I hope), you may be running into problems with that famous scan to email functionality. For a lot of multi-function devices out there, we're lucky if we...
What is a certificate anyways?
Following up on my last post about certificate-based authentication, I thought I would break down for the masses what a certificate is exactly. This isn't really meant for the super PKI nerds out there, so I'm going to simplify things plenty. I'm hoping to just help...
When should I use certificate authentication?
With Microsoft announcing Certificate Based Auth general availability, it's a fair question. Certificate Authentication is nothing new, native support for CBA in Azure AD is very new, and it's very easy to setup. You simply trust your certificate authority with Azure...
What is domk.pro?
"Hey Dom, this link looks phishy." I was amazed when somebody actually noticed I was using a custom short linking tool on a social post. To be honest, my first reaction was a happy one. Somebody had looked before they clicked on a link where the preview very clearly...
Windows 11 Gets Enhanced Phishing Protection
With the release of Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has added Enhanced Phishing Protection to its operating system. This feature proactively warns users if they're putting their Windows password into an insecure application (such as Notepad or Word) or on websites. Windows...
NordLayer Review: Setup and First Thoughts
In July, Pax8 announced a new partnership with Nord Security. I was particularly excited about this launch due to their NordLayer product and the promise of a simple to use SASE service with capabilities like single sign on, private gateways/servers and site to site...
There’s Always Another Attack Vector
Microsoft recently made a big jump in the security of the Office suite by finally blocking macros by default! However, when we plug one hole, threat actors will simply find a new hole, and thus the cycle shall continue.