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Did you ever heard the statement "a fish rots from the head down"? This phrase is often used to blame the leadership for the failure of an organization, but it …
What are HTTP Security Headers and how to properly implement them in IIS, Apache and Nginx to secure your web site Read More
In this second post dedicated to System Administrators who have to deal with a Risk Assessment, Security Assessment, Due Diligence or Compliance Questionnaire: if you lost the first one, you can read …
Enable, Disable or Change Password Complexity and Password Minimum Length settings in Windows Server 2012 Read More
If you're a System Administrator and you had to perform a Risk Assessment, Security Assessment, Due Diligence or Compliance Questionnaire at least once, you most likely know that in order to …
Remote Desktop Session Time Limit - How to set idle Timeout in Windows Server 2012 Read More
If you're looking for a decent password strength control implementation for ASP.NET C# you could find this class I made a while ago useful enough. After all these years I'm …
PasswordCheck - A small C# class to calculate password strength and implement custom password policies in ASP.NET Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post, you most likely experienced one of the nasty new MS Outlook security features shipped with the june 2017 security update, which blocks file attachments …
MS Outlook blocked access to potentially unsafe attachments - How to fix it Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post you are probably well-aware of the Win32/WannaCrypt Ransomware, better known as WannaCry: we already talked about it in this other post, which contains an extensive list …
WannaCry: how to check if your system is protected using a PowerShell script Read More If you stumbled upon this post you most certainly know about the recent Ransomware called Ransom:Win32/WannaCrypt, better known as WannaCry, and you want to know if your system is immune to …
WannaCry Malware Official Patches - All Windows Versions from Microsoft Technet Read More
The endless fight (or should we say race?) between malware and anti-malware software is ready for another chapter: this time we'll be talking about some very annoying malicious code that often …
Chrome Extensions redirects to App Page? Use Chrome Cleanup Tool (and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) Read More
A rather common requirement in Windows-based networks is restricting the access to the shared file system for some specific machines. The reasons for wanting that can be many: security issues, simplifying …
How to block File Sharing for one or more IP Addresses in Windows Read More