If you haven’t setup your two-factor authentication for third party apps in iCloud yet, now is the time.  Unless you are like me, and gave Google all of those tasks already. 🙂  Kudos to Apple for finally coming down of the high horse and admitting they can be hacked…kinda sorta.  🙂

As a side note, I have to say I’m coming more and more into the dark side of fanboydom since I switch to the iPhone.  I didn’t switch by choice mind you, but I did switch.  Almost all of the annoyance from my Android days were gone, but I really miss the bigger screens and greater flexibility.  For now, I’m ok with trading the flexibility up for stability in a device more important than my laptop.

Cisco just released a vulnerability list for the ASA’s. Read more

The SANS Stormcast mentioned the Cuckoo Sandbox for malware research, so I took a few minutes and checked it out.  Based on the About and FAQ pages, this looks like a VM style sandbox to document what malware is actually doing to a Windows machine.  How it works – I don’t know as I went tl;dr on it.  If you are interested in malware forensics, this bad boy might be just what you needed. Read more

Scheduled Tasks: 0x80090016: Keyset does not exist. – One of my 2003 servers decided to go stupid on my scheduled tasks…yes I know I said 2003.  Easy fix – just watch that you reset the task’s user account info. Read more

FYI – Anonymous announced #OpRemember, which appears to be in recon mode right now.  The financial sector, government, biotech (Monsanto), and what I assume are organizations responsible for putting Fluoride in water/products. Read more

SANS ISC StormCast – mention of two new NMAP diary entries which I want to look into more. Read more

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The day started with today’s SANS ISC StormCast.

WSUS Reporting with Powershell & WSUS automatic E-mail reports HOWTO – I’m attempting to automate my daily processes, so getting an email from WSUS telling me who needs patches is great.  Now to find the time to set it up! Read more

I spent a couple days this week attempting to get my two System I’s to authenticate against the AD domain we are going to.  I thought it would be easy, but as with most things IBM it wasn’t.  My biggest hurdle was getting the AS/400’s to talk AES to the new Windows 2008 R2 domains. Read more

Not much meat to this one, just a list of links to major products that are affected by ShellShock: Read more