Could someone, who intentionally uses malware to commit punishable actions get away, nowadays?! Well… Sure he could! The idea and the purpose are to avoid getting robbed, not to trap and punish the robber! Always prefer the “better prevent than cure” approach when it comes to security. The background behind anyone using or…
Computer technology is the, unfathomably evolving, assisting prosthesis to societies, economies, and individuals, attempting to persevere in a world stricken by the pandemic. And yet sometimes…it – the prosthesis – does not fit all that well. Sometimes the grafts get rejected… Or the amputee rehabilitation fails – since he/she/they never lost the limb – they…
It is a recurring phenomenon, in the IoT era, for network devices to be required to send emails and have access to SMTP functionality. Thus, most device manufacturers attempt to follow through and implement the contemporary security protocols while designing and when firmware patching is possible. However, only so much can be done by firmware…
A MS Office update posted on the 12th of November 2019 has caused several queries to fail with no reason. If you are running on Office 365, then proceed with the latest Office 365 update. If you are running other versions of MS Office then: If you have installed any of the following (according…
iSCSI disconnects after KB4525243 installation. Message: c:\windows\system32\iscsicpl.exe The stub received bad data. iSCSI to fiber enabled storage is disconnected and iSCSI initiator tries to connect. VMs are off-Critical as they are stored on the external storage. Even after restart, the iSCSI initiator can’t connect. Storage seems to work, but Hyper-V cannot connect to it…
The cause of this seems to be that when a user logs out from Windows 10 sets some essential registry keys to read only. When they logon again these keys are in the wrong state and packaged applications including Edge fail to load. But this seems to be on of the causes, while MS has…
The past few months COSMOTE, a Greek ISP started providing VDSL access in our country. Right after being very happy about it, we started noticing changes affecting many of our customer services, including proper Domain Name Services data exchange. The Domain name Service, supports hosting of a domain name zone, servicing clients requesting host A…
It appears that when you want to “insert into” data from an nvarchar(max) field to another nvarchar(max) field, and the table has a lot of data the ms sql query is terminated giving you the error Msg 8152, Level 16, State 10 String or binary data would be truncated The statement has been terminated. After…
There are times that moving personal computers to corporate environments, without applying a BYOD policy, drive us to replace the preinstalled OS of our computer. For instance there is the need to upgrade our OS from Home to Professional edition in order the computer to join a domain. For Windows Up to the 8 edition,…
Prerequisites We will need: An ISCSI enabled Network Attached storage, like QNAP. 2 PC/Server with equal number of NICs (4+ NICs needed) /RAM and CPU type A working active directory domain on Windows 2012 R2 For proper HyperV operation you will need n+1 NICs where n is the number of vms hosted on the hypervisor.…
