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Certainly a high risk strategy haha

Also worth considering that Macs stop getting the latest OS release once they get to around 7 years old, and stop receiving security updates after around 10 years so you wouldn't want to be using a 2014 connected to the internet in any scenario. If you want the iMac form factor I'd be looking...

I’m going to suggest we adopt this approach

Several people have pointed out that they have entered in to some big sponsorship deals across motorsport which seems stupid if they are having cash flow problems. Some have speculated that they’ve been blowing money on sponsoring things instead of paying their suppliers on time which is what’s...

ChatGPT to the rescue. A standstill agreement between a bank and a company is a legal contract that typically occurs when a company is facing financial distress or is in default on its loans. In this agreement, the bank agrees to temporarily refrain from taking any legal action against the...

£5 says their admin password was referendum

He clearly built a great product/brand in the beginning but he's obviously not capable of running a company at scale so guess this needed to happen. Hopefully his successor will work to rebuild trust in the brand.

Stuff can be two things

Even if that was true (which it isn’t), an iPhone 4 could still crack it in a few seconds. It’s always amusing seeing what’s on our password blocklist at work, stuff like fuckyou and iloveliverpool 🫣

Our IT guys have decided to inflict some punishment on themselves and are reintroducing password expiry after we suspended it during Covid to avoid lockouts. Always humoured (and aghast) to see the response from some users to very basic instructions. Things are slightly more complex as we are...

Consulting for a client who use the mimecast agent and it must have tripled how long it took to get the laptop built, even a service desk bod who deploys these every day having to go through a whole playbook just to get it deployed and working. (Don't get me started on the targeted threat...

I couldn’t believe mine only went from 900 to 1100 moving from the S3 to the Macan. I guess the demographic of the owners is somewhat different though. Envious of those with sub £500 insurance but I suppose being in your 20s in London it’s never gonna be reasonable.

I’ve spent most of this week doing the interns job running some nmap service discovery against our clients network. That and some python to make sense of the xml output, thank f**k it’s the weekend.

This is exactly how I felt trying to get my dad's Adobe Elements catalogue migrated from 2019 to 2024 on a new machine. Not one person at Adobe has actually clicked the 'Restore Catalogue' button because if they had they'd know it does jack s**t.

I have spent a significant portion of my life typing gpupdate /force Good luck!

Lol no sooner than saying this, Austin has done a full tutorial on picking and building a computer. Disclaimer: it's 3hrs (although most of that is waiting for Windows to install) and I haven't watched it but I rate him as a tech YouTuber.

Apart from his over the top energy, this guy does tons of builds, some of them in the level of detail you need to replicate yourself (or get an idea of required parts). But also you'll get an idea of what you get at various price points and the sort of performance you can expect with the...

I'd watch some YouTube videos that do PC builds so you get an idea of where to spend money and which components you can save on. Then go to somewhere like scan.co.uk or Overclockers where you can get all the components.

If you want to go full hackerman, there are various scripts that can retrieve the NTLM file (encrypted passwords) then use something like hashcat to crack them. This is totally legit as we do it at work as part of our cyber hygiene work. It'll be dependent on a couple of things: 1) when the...

Uploads probably

Crowdstrike.... security theatre??? I won't have it...

Any interesting tooling? Or just ‘mindset’ haha

DSOaaS?

Anyone else getting the enjoyment of watching management try to implement DevSecOps without having a scooby what it is? Currently it’s just a pen tester pressing buttons in Jenkins :LOL:

It’s not uncommon for contractors to not even have network access for one or two days. How hard can it be etc. then again when you have 900+ AD groups it’s never gonna be simple.

We’re trying to improve our RBAC and make it easier for new starters to get access to what they need. This led to a very exciting afternoon of doing nothing but going through Jira tickets for each role and approving them 😭 Proper advanced work.

I’m sure I’ve seen ‘whiskey’ on the DevOps chart somewhere

Save. Your. Self. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

To be honest procurement is probably the worst part of the job. Similar story with Atlassian, pricing everyone out of their on-prem/self hosted deployments into their cloud so you’re at their mercy every time they get breached.

As much as IT is my job, it’s also a very expensive hobbie. One never ending cycle of computers and money.