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Have support escalate the ticket up the food chain.

The question did say explicitly call out.... During that period he goes on about admins and about to leave employees in a special AD group. (how do you generate such a group as you are lucky to get 2 weeks notice and some companies immediately walk them?) Then later he mentions 3 groups. So there is some ambiguity in place…

https://blog.kaspersky.com/blackhat-jeep-cherokee-hack-explained/9493/ basically hacking the entertainment system via the sprint network and updating some firmware remotely giving them access to the CAN bus...

yeah the binary stuff can be fun...doesn't take a bunch to turn the fun into something bad. As long as you have the room to do it safely....If I had the acreage....

SIEM applications are one way to look for attacks and unauthorized activity as well as log file tools such as splunk where you can index and build queries to look for patterns or events in near time. Of course these are living tools that need tweaks as things change over time.

dang... uh... ....I got nothing for this one.

Thursday in search of coffee bump ! #bumpsquad​

Hmmm....implants, wireless access to bots like Siri. Just think of the ability to hack into that thought stream..it is wireless, likely RF based. Which means you start with a receiver and some software to decode it..... Again, a man in the middle attack could really make life interesting if not downright ugly.

pony10​ no we did not have those. We hand burst everything. Later in life we got a bursting unit and they had to alter the BOJ and EOJ markers on the creases of the fanfold print. There was a trimmer and page burster upstairs I used to have to takes special forms upstairs to do. We had the 2 busiest 3800 printers in the…

Very good adatole​ ! * Using the Orion SDK to automatically add a system which was provisioned by chef, jenkins, or similar tools into monitoring. * Perform a hardware scan of that system to collect relevant asset and hardware inventory information. * Feed that information into a CMDB for ongoing tracking. * Scan that…

silverbacksays​ pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as I am concerned.

caffeine overclocking - I like it. !! ...in a past life we had coffee machines that used a 1 liter bag of "gourmet coffee concentrate" that when added with the appropriate amount of water produced close to 800 cups of coffee. Used to time it to where I got to change the concentrate bag before it was out. 1/2 teaspoon had…

Years ago what the problem was rearing its head, farmers and ranchers would pay hunters to take the hogs. Then they decided to let the hunters hunt them for free.. Then they realized there was a market so they started making people pay to hunt them...

reminds me of the old IBM FRU instructions for replacing the mouse ball...

We also get the phishing test emails...some are well crafted to look like a scan from a printer sent as an email with attached document except for the fact that we don't have that brand of printer here at the office. For the IT world, this can generally be accomplished even though you will have those that "know better". In…

Pre humpday bump!! #bumpsquad​

...just add fire.

Dove is a great bit of fowl for feasting except for one thing...it takes at least 4-6 to make a meal for one. But it is excellent wrapped in bacon with a jalapeno and grilled. Pigeon is just a bit bigger. You might be able to make a meal out of 2. 

buy once, cry once...the price for quality.

Post holiday hump day bump it up day !!!!

Year there was the one time at a prior job when they were working on the chillers.... Everything was shut down except for the clustered system that handled POS transactions. This was during the summer in Texas. We had the doors open and fans running...we got to within 2 degrees of the point where we would have been forced…

inconceivable !!!

Good breakdown....I need to go back and re-read it again.

we monitor our production Orion environment from our offsite DR environment as well as from our dev instance. This way we get a view from the outside looking in and are not polluted by being on the inside.

Way to go and congrats to milstateit@mil.wa.gov​ and murpr@hvfcu.org​ ! Enjoy your prizes !

Thursday afternoon bump...

they have it...via laser. It is direct line of sight only unless you are using fiber optic cable.

Tools are only as good as the quality of the data they are pointed to. Case in point, if they are not looking at the information (different log file) they will and may never see the triggering root cause event or symptom. Sometimes it is a correlated event that may not be obvious. X happens but Y usually happens within 30…

Small amounts at distance requiring accuracy is fun...

I guess we will have to start referring to sqlrockstar​ as Mr. MVP