Never expose RDP to the public internet

September 16, 2020 Comments Off on Never expose RDP to the public internet In 20 years of IT, I've seen many services attacked relentlessly. Some services like RDP are a hacker's dream if they're left open to the internet. Of course it's convenient and inexpensive to leave that port open and have your desktop or server accessible from anywhere in the world, using any RDP client. You might

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Vigilance and care are needed to protect against website/application hacking.

September 16, 2020 Comments Off on Vigilance and care are needed to protect against website/application hacking. You go to post a long-overdue update to your neglected website, and you notice that there are many new, strangely named files and directories in your ftp root. Or worse, you load your website and see the garbage below. You are now a cog in the relentless global spam & malware machine. Your server is

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Upgrading motherboard/chipset on Windows 7 without reinstalling.

March 24, 2014 Comments Off on Upgrading motherboard/chipset on Windows 7 without reinstalling. One of the biggest annoyances for advanced PC users is upgrading your motherboard, or the "guts" of your PC. When you install windows, the setup program gathers details about the low-level components in your system and includes the appropriate drivers into the initial installation. Normally, if you simply swap out these components, say an AMD

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