Hardening WMI: Any security benefit to changing Impersonation level & separately, setting ‘Winmgmt Standalonehost?’

Question #1 Does changing the Default Impersonation Level in WMI to "anonymous" or "identify" help mitigate against WMI exploitation, implants, and persistent threats on a local machine? If so, please explain why… and… Continue reading Hardening WMI: Any security benefit to changing Impersonation level & separately, setting ‘Winmgmt Standalonehost?’

Nmap loads on its own, scans addresses, with a different source address than my PC. How is this possible?

10 minutes after installing Nmap on a fresh install of windows, NMap loaded on its own and attempted to scan dozens of IP addresses around the globe. I never initiated the scan. Notice the source address is different than my own IP 192.168… Continue reading Nmap loads on its own, scans addresses, with a different source address than my PC. How is this possible?