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Is this your personal laptop, or a corporate laptop? Is it ever plugged in on the office network? The idea of using a RDP style connection makes some sense if it is the only way a laptop is allowed to connect to the corporate network. The various network based attacks from an infected laptop...

Fuel pump in the tank, and 40+ PSI in the lines? Or at the engine, and suction in the lines?

A CISSP is a good cert for cyber security. It doesn’t go very deep in any specific security area, but it is very broad in what it covers, which makes it rather difficult. But there is no telling if it is what you need to get doors open, or if it is just the year end hiring slump.

If you have a non broadcast SSID, when you go into settings, to connect to WiFi, the network would not show up in the list of available networks, and you would have to enter the network name before entering the authentication type and password. A few months back, my iPad mini 2 went through a...

Are you using a non broadcast SSID? Back in day, that used to be the way it maximize security. Now, if you do that, your phones and iPads are beaconing your nonbroadcast SSID looking to see if the network is present, everywhere you go. It uses more battery, and gives one more way you advertise...

Some companies have paid intern tracks. Some of them rotate recent graduates through several departments, and give them a few months OJT in each, hoping they will land with the company at one of the positions. It sucks when you find one you want, who likes your department, but they still have...

It is sort of a management Kobayashi Maru. No matter which way you go, you will second guess afterwards.

Banking world, director and variants, are above VP and it’s variants. Anywhere else, I haven’t seen an exception to VP being above director. My most eye opening experience with pay differences between team members was when I was approached to manage a new team that would be created from a...

Looks to me like dispatch and police are the ones who induced panic.

Do you also manage to avoid chinesium electronics? The more I see tear downs of various levels of electronics, the more I worry about less than well engineered electronics making it into the house. I’m adding smoke detectors into rooms that didn’t come with them from the builder, but have more...

I was half way expecting a flitetest video with a flying RC tow truck. I guess give them some time now.

I don’t know the implimentation plan or enforcement, but I know some places are moving towards any time a corporate laptop is on a network other than the corporate office, it is on VPN. Probably not automated, as users don’t always need network access, and the VPN requires active participation...

As long as your VPN configuration has split tunnel turned off, once the tunnel is up, your computer should throw away any traffic to it that isn’t the tunnel, or in the tunnel. So you should be protected, as attack traffic to your local hotel IP would simply be thrown away. If you went...

The browser and the user clicking the buttons are often the weakest point. A PC on the open internet can pick up malware that later attacks the server when VPN connected, or plugged in at the office. Or it can store sensitive data to be uploaded next time it is on the open internet. When...

You can plan to avoid the first two. The third one you can be smarter and wait until you are off the road. The last one is not necessarily under your control.

This may depend heavily how many terminal cases stay in the hospital, vs going home to hospice. It may also depend how you treat cases where only in hindsight is it reasoably/cost effectively possible to determine what the right course really was? And admittedly, there appears to be a strong...

I wish developers understood how networks and firewalls work. Or sometimes even how the OS network stack works.

Not my prank, but rather one that was played on me. As a high school senior, I would occasionally get to drive my dad’s 69 Karmann Ghia to school. One day I climbed in and found the ignition switch left on. While it certainly had a well worn ignition switch and key, I wouldn’t have left it...

I’m 50, and last I checked, I could still do 70+ WPM when I could find a decent keyboard. (Though I’ll admit I probably don’t remember all the symbols we rarely use) I’ve heard that there are now some recent hires who have done everything on phone/tablet, and thus have never learned to touch type.

If you are in a well ventilated area, have no skin defects, and correctly perform all cleanup for environmental protection, Mercury can be safely handled with bare hands. While it easily crosses the blood brain barrier, and vapor is absorbed through the lungs, it does not readily pass through...