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Maintaining or administering a computer system remotely is a common enough task these days, but it’s also something that can go sideways on you quickly if you aren’t careful. How …read more Continue reading Before You sudo rm -rf /, Take Some Precautions
Let’s say I’m building a system, similar to a very simple ecommerce.
Users can sign up as consumer and start buying products.
Purchases are then stored in the database together with the order status, shipping info, etc.
Now, in order to ma… Continue reading In a system architecture, to what extent an admin user should have access to consumer resources?
We need to give local admin privileges on most workstations to our ERP software admin so he can install updates. He is not a domain admin, simply a domain user. However, we don’t want him to have local admin rights to any management comput… Continue reading Granting Local Admin permissions on domain workstations
So firstly I do own my computer, completely, it is connected with my outlook for bitlocker keys, and I do have full access to my administrator accounts and workstation accounts.
After resetting my Surfacebook 2 and rebooting different flav… Continue reading Trusted Platform Module
Have you been slowly falling down a rabbit hole of Stallman-like paranoia of computers ever since installing Ubuntu for the first time in 2007? Do you now abhor anything with …read more Continue reading Remote Screen Viewer is Text-Only
Receiving guidance from a contractor that restricting unknown devices (regardless of MFA, location, etc.) to an Azure tenant does not improve security in any meaningful way, and just creates a headache for the administrator who needs to ru… Continue reading Is my perception of improved security by restricting access to an MS365 tenant/associated apps on per-device basis misguided? Why?
The local admin was recently blocked from running mmc.exe. UAC message says ‘An administrator has blocked you from running this app.’ I’m looking for details on how to investigate this. I’m not sure what event logs to check. Advanced Audit… Continue reading Investigate who blocked local admin from running mmc
For a large company using MacOS, is it possible this company is able to detect if an employee copies files to a USB drive?
I haven’t checked to see if system logs log that by default or can log USB getting plugged in and files getting cop… Continue reading Is it possible that a company is able to detect if an employee copies files to a USB drive? [closed]
On our admin panel/area, there is one unknown admin that keeps showing up. Even after we removed him from the admin, the next day it come again. Some data might also be changed.
My question is, how is this possible? Is it possible that the… Continue reading Admin Panel Backdoored [closed]
If an attacker succeeds in getting the password of an IT support privileged account (that has Domain Control rights), can he successfully carry out the attack and do the lateral movement needed between the Domain Controllers and/or users?
… Continue reading Can a ransomware attack succeed with no root privileges, but instead if it does have privileged user access?