The ramblings of a computer geek
NOTE: See https://geekmungus.co.uk/?p=3619 for the most up to date article! The following is my analysis going going deeper into my recent article: https://geekmungus.co.uk/?p=3532, hopefully this will give you a bit more context and information, but also allowed me to work through the issue in my head through documentation. Synopsis The patch KB5019964 changes what the … Read more
If you are seeing this issue, you can resolve the problem by downloading and replacing the Windows driver with this one using Device Manager. In my case this was trying to use a USB to Serial (RS232) adapter which just wasn’t working. https://github.com/brucetsao/Drivers/raw/master/FAKE_PL2303/IO-Cable_PL-2303_Drivers-Generic_Windows_PL2303_Prolific.zip Connectix.nl provide a more detailed overview of the solution here.
Within the Microsoft Exchange configuration you’ll see that there is an InternalURL and ExternalURL attribute for each of the key Microsoft Exchange Web Services, e.g. OWA, ECP, ActiveSync etc. Personally i’ve never really used these when they are different, but what it allows is for your internal and external URLs to access the services to … Read more
A big topic at the moment in Information Security is multi-factor authentication(MFA), also known as two factor authentication (2FA). So the first question, what is a “factor”? Put simply a “factor” is element that a principal (i.e. a person trying to logon to a system) can use to prove to the system they are the … Read more
During some upcoming changes I needed to test a mobile application to use a test IP address for a standard hostname. Problem is, I didn’t want to root my Android phone to be able edit the hosts file. There are apps such as “Hosts Go”, but in my case these didn’t work. On a normal … Read more
The Kemp WAF is based on the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS), it is a set of firewall rules that are loaded that provide generic signatures for common attack types (e.g. SQL Injection, XSS and so on), it uses string matching, regex techniques to look for and block attacks in a general way. What … Read more
Had the error: “Invalid Verification File” when attempting to perform an upgrade to a Kemp Load Master, the Kemp has two files for upgrade the actual upgrade patch file and a manifest file needed for verification. If you’ve downloaded the file but whatever you do you still get this error when attempting to upgrade perform … Read more
If you need to quickly check the health of a protocol, Microsoft Exchange 2013 onwards provides a URL that you can query to ascertain the health of the service. Obviously if you query this and get nothing (i.e. a timeout) you can assume something is wrong, or if you get anything other than a “200 … Read more
Staytus is a great, simple little Service Status page. Yeah you could write your own with this set of functionality, but this is a great little web application you can just use off the shelf to easily publish your service status to the web and update it in the event of any issues and/or maintenance … Read more
NOTE: See https://geekmungus.co.uk/?p=3619 for the most up to date article! We’ve had an issue with the recent “Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5019964)” update, as by the looks of it a load of other people. In our case we are running Microsoft Windows 2016 domain controllers, the NetApp filers are pretty old we’re readying to … Read more