A phishing attempt is spreading very quickly online. It is an email that looks very legit sharing a google doc. It usually comes from a trusted source since it is spreading via Gmail’s contact list. I even got hit with one at work.?I wasn’t expecting any shared google docs so it raised my eyebrows and […]
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Wells Fargo passwords are not case sensitive – fix it with MFA/2FA
Wells Fargo passwords are not case sensitive but they do offer multi-factor (2 factor) authentication. After enabling, when you login you will get a text message with a code that you need to enter in as well as your password. This is a simple and effective measure to mitigate, and should be something you use […]
Read More →Powershell all the things
This is basic sys admin 101 stuff, but it made me so happy I had to post. And who doesn’t like a little PS 101? Case in point, needed to stop and disable several services. I could open services.msc, click on each one, stop, and then disable. Or I could use Powershell. First, we need […]
Read More →Change network adapter priority in Windows 10
Turns out Windows 10 is missing the old network adapter priority under advanced settings. Remember this? Noticed my wireless adapter had priority while I was uploading some VHD’s to Azure. When I checked the priority I saw I was missing something. No Adapaters and Bindings tab. After a quick search online I discovered they removed […]
Read More →Blocked 3 Asian Pacific subnets
Tired of logs full of connection attempts from hosts in these subnets. All from Asian Pacific IPs. So I just blocked 3 /8’s. That’s over 16 million IP’s per subnet. I wish there was a process for revoking IP’s from abusive users. If you want to block them here are the subnets I blocked and […]
Read More →Powershell script to add a local administrator user to Windows server
A simple script to create and add a local administrator to a Windows VM. [code language=”powershell”] $user = Read-Host -Prompt ‘Input your username here’ ? Add-Type -Assembly System.Web $pass=[Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(14,0) NET USER $user "$pass" /ADD /y NET LOCALGROUP "Administrators" "$user" /add WMIC USERACCOUNT WHERE "Name=’$user’" SET PasswordExpires=FALSE ? Write-Host "Username: $user" -backgroundcolor black Write-Host "Password: $pass" […]
Read More →The blog has been updated
Now featuring https. For years I’ve been wanting to enable https but WordPress fought me tooth and nail on it (thanks SEO friendly rewriting). Well, I finally figured it out. ?Simply changing the URL in settings was not working, neither was the wp-config by itself. Here is what I ended up adding to wp-config.php. [code […]
Read More →Powershell script to add administrator to Windows server
A simple script to create and add an administrator to a Windows server. Not setup to work remotely. Script asks for the username. Then creates the user, creates a password, adds the user to the administrators group and writes the username, password, server name, and IP address to the powershell window. I RDP into a […]
Read More →Powershell script to automate Windows Updates using PSWindowsUpdate
PSWindowsUpdate is a module that automates windows updates using PowerShell. I work with a lot of desperate environments that aren’t connectedand not all machines are on a domain. The ones that are use different domains that are not trusted. That means WSUS isn’t an option. There are some third party options that could work like […]
Read More →Copy blobs between storage accounts using AzCopy
The easy way is using AzCopy. There are also methods to do this asynchronously in powershell but I like the path of least resistance. Install Microsoft Azure Storage Tools from here.?http://aka.ms/downloadazcopy Get the URL for both storage account containers that contain the blob. Get the name of the blob Get the access keys for both […]
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