Free Active Directory management tools: Part 5 – Replication, domain controller roles, and monitoring

Replicate information between domain controllers (DCs), identify the roles assigned to the domain controllers in your Active Directory (AD) environment, and monitor your domain controllers based on the parameters you require with the following free too… Continue reading Free Active Directory management tools: Part 5 – Replication, domain controller roles, and monitoring

Free Active Directory management tools: Part 3 – Generating CSVs and querying Active Directory

Creating a CSV file containing all the required attributes of your entire workforce to perform bulk actions is not only time consuming, but often error-prone. On top of this, Active Directory’s (AD’s) native LDAP query interface is not very user …
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Free for unlimited users: Password Expiration Notifier for Active Directory

Changing your password periodically is vital and helps prevent hackers from accessing your network resources and inflicting damage. If users fail to change their passwords when prompted for security reasons, they get locked out of their accounts, and a… Continue reading Free for unlimited users: Password Expiration Notifier for Active Directory

A tool for every need: Windows Active Directory free tools

Passwords are the first line of cyberdefense, and an organization cannot afford to have weak passwords, poorly-configured password policies, or even worse, empty passwords. Discovering users with weak or empty passwords can be like finding a needle in … Continue reading A tool for every need: Windows Active Directory free tools

DIY Scalar Network Analyzer

[Steven Merrifield] built his own Scalar Network Analyzer and it’s a beauty! [Steve]’s SNA has a digital pinout matching a Raspberry Pi, but any GPIO could be used to operate the device and retrieve the data from the ADC. The design is based around a few tried and true chips …read more

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Google to pay $170 million for violating children’s privacy on YouTube

Google and its subsidiary YouTube will pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York Attorney General that the YouTube video sharing service illegally collected personal information from children… Continue reading Google to pay $170 million for violating children’s privacy on YouTube