By Ameen Chowdhary, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. Due to its prevalence, most IT technicians are comfortable working with ethernet cables. IT technicians who are studying for the Network + or CCNA or have some basic experience in the field would be capable of cutting and crimping their ethernet cables. However, few have experience …
By Bryan Macario, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. Since RYUK’s inception back in August of 2018, its operators have earned an estimated $150 million worth of Bitcoin worldwide. That is a lot of money in a short period! I’ve had the opportunity to work with RYUK ransomware a few times, and my mom’s nursing facility …
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By Ameen Chowdhary, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. Find and Replace If you’re anything like me, then you would remember the day that you found out how to search for text on a webpage or a word document. Someone was probably standing over your shoulder and told you, “You do realize that you can …
By Bryan Macario, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. In this article, I will highlight an open-source tool that you can use to fully automate your patch management. The tool is called AWX, and it utilizes the Ansible framework. Ansible is an open-source automation tool used for IT tasks such as patching, configuration management, software …
By Ameen Chowdhary, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. Have you ever opened up a web browser and typed in the URL: https://www.goggle.com by accident? If you did, then you might have immediately realized that you typed “google” incorrectly. You may notice that the content is off, or if you’re using Chrome, then Google will …
By Bryan Macario, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. It’s 2021, and Cybersecurity has been a hot item on everybody’s list. Whether at home or in the corporate world, our technology is constantly evolving, and with the latest security patches and operating systems updated, our defenses have been getting better and better. That being said, …
