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CVE security vulnerability database May 10, 2017, 10:41 a.m.

Provides a web interface to CVE vulnerability data. You can browse for vendors, products and versions and view CVE entries, vulnerabilities, related to them. You can view statistics about vendors, products and versions of products, and create custom RSS feeds and widgets.

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SelfADSI : Active Directory Permissions : Security Descriptors May 8, 2017, 5:10 p.m.

Permissions in Active Directory are defined by so-called security descriptors, which are stored as properties directly in the AD objects.

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Disabling User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Server May 3, 2017, 8:15 a.m.

Under certain constrained circumstances, disabling User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Server can be an acceptable and recommended practice.

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Amazon EC2 Systems Manager (PDF) May 2, 2017, 3:09 p.m.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a collection of capabilities that helps you automate management tasks such as collecting system inventory, applying operating system patches, automating the creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and configuring operating systems and applications at scale. Systems Manager lets you remotely and securely manage the configuration of your managed instances. A managed instance is any Amazon EC2 instance or on-premises machine in your hybrid environment that has been configured for Systems Manager.

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Setting AD Group Managers with PowerShell May 2, 2017, 2:19 p.m.

From time to time you may want to delegate control of an AD security group to an unprivileged user. The group manager property is an LDAP property on the group object that contains the Distinguished Name of a given user account. The checkbox that allows the group manager to modify who is a member of this group is not an LDAP property with a boolean type, that would be too simple and not line up with the Microsoft security management methodology. It's implemented as an Access Control Entry (ACE) in the objects Discretionary Access Control Li (DACL). Think of it like the permissions when looking at the Security tab for a file. These can be manipulated programatically.

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Epoch Converter - Unix Timestamp Converter April 26, 2017, 2:47 p.m.

Convert epoch to human readable date and vice versa. The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds.

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Vulgar: Language generator April 20, 2017, 5:13 p.m.

Vulgar is a constructed language (conlang) generator for fantasy fiction writing that creates unique and usable constructed languages in the click of a button. Vulgar's output models the regularities, irregularities and quirks of real world languages; phonology, grammar, and a 2000 unique word vocabulary.

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Windows proxy settings explained April 12, 2017, 8:25 a.m.

In Windows environments, proxy settings are typically configured in the ‘Internet Options‘ for Internet Explorer. Other applications can also use this information. Still, there are some applications and services that will not be able to use the IE proxy server. This post will describe why and how you can configure the different proxy settings.

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Last Exit to Nowhere April 11, 2017, 11:22 a.m.

Film and tv inspired hand screen printed t‑shirts and apparel.

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VMware Guest OS Types April 8, 2017, 10:40 a.m.

Generally speaking try to use the option that is the best match for the Os you want to install. The guestOS = "other" - option disables all optimisations and should be used when every other option has failed only.

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Library of Babel April 6, 2017, 2:09 p.m.

The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library.

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The Library of Babel April 6, 2017, 2:04 p.m.

In any case, a library containing all possible books, arranged at random, might as well be a library containing zero books, as any true information would be buried in, and rendered indistinguishable from, all possible forms of false information.

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How to use DNSLint to troubleshoot Active Directory replication issues March 30, 2017, 3:51 p.m.

DNSLint is a Microsoft Windows utility that can help you determine whether all DNS servers that are supposed to be authoritative for the root of an Active Directory forest actually have the necessary DNS records, and can resolve all of the necessary DNS records to successfully synchronise partition replicas among domain controllers in an Active Directory forest.

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DNSLint March 30, 2017, 3:28 p.m.

DNSLint is a Microsoft Windows utility that helps you to diagnose common DNS name resolution issues.

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10 DNS Errors That Will Kill Your Network March 30, 2017, 3:08 p.m.

  • TCP/IP Configuration Points to Public DNS Servers
  • Improper DNS Suffix Handling
  • Improperly Configured Forwarding
  • Improper Zone Transfer Configuration
  • Failure to Verify Dynamic Update of Resource Records
  • Failure to Properly Delegate Child Zones
  • Failure to Secure Public-Facing DNS Servers
  • Failure to properly Secure Resource Records
  • Incorrect
  • Outdated or Unreachable DNS Servers
  • Lack of Fault Tolerance
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The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking March 28, 2017, 5:27 p.m.

The theory of lock picking is the theory of exploiting mechanical defects. There are a few basic concepts and definitions but the bulk of the material consists of tricks for opening locks with particular defects or characteristics.

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n-gate.com. we can't both be right. March 28, 2017, 5:25 p.m.

An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts.

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Quotes from the Cloudiest WebScaliest DevOps Teams March 28, 2017, 5:24 p.m.

ITIL comes from the Latin word Itilus which means “give up”

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The Devops Dictionary March 28, 2017, 5:23 p.m.

Internet: the cause of and solution to all of our problems. Hardened against thermonuclear war but susceptible to attacks carried out by swarms of over-engineered refrigerators.

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Spaceteam March 28, 2017, 5:23 p.m.

Spaceteam is a fast-paced, cooperative shouting card game where you work together to repair a malfunctioning spaceship.

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