Open Source APC Software

This is probably a niche thing, but if you have a APC BackUPS on a Server OS, monitoring it and such doesn’t work because Business software won’t see it and personal software won’t install on server. Ran into this odd combo recently at a small business customer. The answer was using some open source software:

Deltaseo.co Fax Scammers

One of our customers brought this to our attention, they weren’t sure if this was a legit service they were using or not. Spoiler: It’s not. It’s a scam. I looked at this and the first thing I noticed is the domain, it’s not the normal one for this customer, the second red flag is

Weakness in Microsoft Email Encryption (OME)

If PGP is pretty good privacy, perhaps OME should be called one mediocre encryption. A co-worker let me know about a possible issue with Microsoft 365 email encryption. I looked into it and found the source: https://labs.withsecure.com/advisories/microsoft-office-365-message-encryption-insecure-mode-of-operation The encryption weakness here is already well known and Microsoft won’t be fixing it. ECB encrypts data in blocks,

Add extra “stickers” to ShareX

You can add your own library of icons to ShareX. Twitter supplies an open source of emoji https://github.com/twitter/twemoji, also here are more open source emoji: https://openmoji.org/ It’s a good start but I was looking for a way to indicate access points on a google maps image. So I also used https://icons8.com/ to download a few

ShareX: Best Snapshot Tool Ever

https://getsharex.com/ We’re starting to implement Security Defaults on Microsoft 365, so we’re having to get MFA enabled on all accounts including initial admin accounts on new customers.I was setting up a new account and wanted to put the QR Code into our password manager, so I snapped it with ShareX and then opened https://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx Oh no,

Subaddressing or Plus addressing email

I love when I learn about something I’ve completely missed. I was reading a tweet by Troy Hunt from HIBP (HaveIBeenPwned), and someone in the replies was like, “cryptocurrency lets you assign unique addresses to each wallet, when will email have this function?” And someone else replied, “you can do that with plus addressing, Google

“I’ll do it myself”

Here is an excellent tale of why you shouldn’t cut the expert out and do it yourself. We could maybe make this into a blog post. Granted this customer did use the experts for all the camera installs except they had one camera left over and decided, it wasn’t enough to worry about getting the

TIL Class GUID link in Device Manager and Regedit

This will be a short one, we had an issue where the keyboard stopped working on reboot. The keyboard device was having an upperfilter driver added to it. Removing the extra entry and then rescanning for devices caused it to work again. As I searched for solutions, I noticed that each guid in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ covered

Reporting Tech Support Scammers

We happen to use ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect) as our remote support tool so when we got a call from a customer that we already had an agent installed on, we were dismayed to find the scammer was also using a paid version of Control. This is the story of how we removed the scammer

Windows 11 product key works on Windows 10 installation

Lots of info online about “You got a Windows 11 preinstall, well you can install Windows 10, no problem.” Some articles had conflicting information saying you would need a downgrade kit or something. So when in doubt, just try it yourself. I downloaded the stock Windows 10 Media Creator and made an ISO and loaded