layering tutorial

https://youtu.be/I2bpORfpMbs

7 ransomware tips

http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2016/03/28/7-ways-ransomware-could-invade-your-firm

Nice OCSP review

http://www.securitysift.com/offsec-pwb-oscp/

Youngest Hacker ....... for now

This young kid is certainly getting a good start in the industry!

Hint for those visiting Chicago

Great Project Computer

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/02/raspberry-pis-35-linux-computer-on-track-to-launch-later-this-month.ars

A colleague at work just forwarded this to me, and it seems like a great little project computer. I know the specs are not super huge at this point, but it is the size of a deck of cards, so what do you honestly expect. At the very least it could be a great home router/ firewall for someone to use. The specs are going to be roughly equivalent to a Cisco ASA 5505.

Learning articles for the month

So here is the October round of articles and tutorials to check out for the next month. Again, these are just the ones that peak my interest, so by all means please go to the original site and look through all of the great articles they have.

Strategies for Monitoring Failover Clusters
Advanced Group Policy Management (Part 4)
Single Item Recovery (Part 2)
Deploying Lync Server 2010 (Part 3)
Monitoring Exchange 2007 / 2010 with Powershell (Part 3
Enabling Forms-based Authentication for OWA published using Forefront TMG 2010 (Part 3)
Configuring Web Proxy Automatic Discovery in Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
Windows Security Tools
Eight Things You Can Do Today to Improve Security on Your Microsoft Network
Data Leakage Prevention
Troubleshooting Event Log Entries
Back to basics
Getting Started with ESXi 5

CISSP Exams

I have been studying for the CISSP exam this past month and this past Saturday finally sat down for the exam. Practice exams became a big part of my study curriculum towards the end there, and here is one of the free ones I found online.


Good Luck to any who might pursue this Certification!