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In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “Are Tech ‘Innovations’ Accelerating Security Threats?” we explore how businesses can balance their need for technological advancements with maintaining robust security measures to protect against cyber threats.

We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.

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How to monitor your UPS with free software + a Raspberry Pi is a simple script that installs Network UPS Tools plus some other packages on a Raspberry Pi or similar Linux system to quickly enable HTTP and SNMP v2c monitoring. Author david-eaton explains it “can make it easy to configure UPS monitoring on a RaspberryPi in a matter of minutes.”

Glary Utilities is an all-in-one solution that offers powerful one-click cleaning for an individual computer to boost speed and help fix errors, crashes, and freezes. Kindly suggested by jan-erikmense2.

A clever hack for preventing unwanted reboots, compliments of orwiad10:

Shutdown /r /t 315360000

Schedules a reboot 10 years in the future. If you have a reboot scheduled, the api prevents anything non-interactive from rebooting your machine… So stuff like a forced reboot for updates.

JS CheatSheet features a tidy collection of the key information you need when working with JavaScript. Our appreciation for the recommendation goes to Extradiscipline_644.

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First off this week, we’d like to invite you to take part in a 5-min survey on I.T. security awareness training in companies. Help us understand how the human side of security is handled in your organization, and you’ll get a chance to win a Google Nest Hub Max worth $229!

And in the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “Lockbit’s Return, ScreenConnect Vulnerability & a US Healthcare Cyber Attack,” we discuss Hornetsecurity’s Monthly Threat Report analyzing recent security incidents and share expert insights.

We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.

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Introduction About BiDi SFP and BiDi Fiber explains specifically how BiDi SFP works and for what, what fiber it should operate with, and the differences between it and common SFP. Thanks for directing us to this one are offered to chaoticbear.

Prometheus SNMP Exporter exposes SNMP data in a format that is perfectly mapped for Prometheus. It translates the hierarchical data structure of SNMP to work with the Prometheus n-dimnensional matrix, thus eliminating the need to manually go through data. Our appreciation for this suggestion goes to bilbo-baggins125.

HTML Cheat Sheet is a quick guide to useful code examples and web developer tools, markup generators and more, including a nice pdf version you can print out. Kindly recommended by Extradiscipline_644.

Omni OS is an open-source enterprise server OS featuring data storage, lightweight virtualization, full hardware virtualization, software-defined networking, and in-depth tracing. AntranigV says, “I deployed OmniOS for a customer and I fell in love with it. Now I have 5+ deployments of OmniOS and I even setup a local mirror to download packages even faster. illumos Zones with ZFS, boot environments and SMF/FMA is really amazing, best enterprise Unix I’ve ever seen in my life. Can’t believe people are not using this gem.”

Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!

In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “Insider Threats in Microsoft 365,” we focus on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, shedding light on the nuances of insider threats and offering valuable insights on safeguarding against them.

We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.

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JA4+ Network Fingerprinting explains how to leverage the new modular network fingerprint methods that replaced the JA3 TLS standard, which can be useful in helping protect your network from threats. aygupt1822 explains, “These are TLS Fingerprinting tools which generate TLS Fingerprints from raw network packets.”

9 Essential PowerShell Scripts for SharePoint Online Security shares a set of curated, precision scripts for monitoring SharePoint online file activities, external user activities, and online permissions/access. Kindly suggested by Shan_1130.

Critical Security Flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem delves into the attack vector introduced by generative AI that can be exploited to compromise user accounts. ElectroPanic0 explains, “While the whole GenAI trend is great and lets employees/teams incorporate external AI tools in their code or daily tasks, the security falls behind.”

jamesaepp shares a handy browser shortcut: 

CTRL + Shift + DEL in Chrome/Edge (maybe FF?) brings you to the clear cache dialog box

How to Build a Custom MacOS Dock is a guide that walks you through how to create a purpose-built onboarding dock for your users. The method has been verified from Sonoma back through Catalina. Recommended by trikster_online, who says, “I have about 7 different docks I use depending on the lab.”

Git Commands Cheat Sheet is a nicely organized quick-reference guide where you can easily locate all the essentials for making the best use of Git. Appreciation for the suggestion goes to Extradiscipline_644.

Mimir is an open-source multi-tenant time series database that is a blazingly fast, scalable, high-availability solution for long-term storage for Prometheus. Our thanks for the recommendation go to bilbo-baggins125.

Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!

In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “Microsoft vs Midnight Blizzard,” we explore insider threats within M365 with special guest Philip Galea, R&D Manager at Hornetsecurity. The focus is on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, shedding light on the nuances of insider threats and offering valuable insights on safeguarding against them.

We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.

Now on to this week’s list!

Fiber Cable Maintenance walks you through the proper cleaning procedures that will keep your fiber cable connections working at peak performance. Appreciation for this one goes to -sirKris-, who offers the reminder, “Keep your equipment clean!” 

Intunewin Build and Extract is a tool that allows you to either build a new Intune Win32 application or extract the content from one that already exists. The author has written detailed instructions in this blog post. Our thanks for the suggestion go to dcg1k.

Coursera is an online learning platform with courses from top universities and industry leaders. The catalog of options is designed to provide self-paced training options to suit all skill levels. esgeeks explains, “offers free and paid courses on a wide variety of topics, including technology.”

In the runup to April Fool’s Day, we thought we’d share this diabolical-yet-harmless prank, compliments of laguna314…

“[W]hen people set their desktop to family photos or pet photos etc., I make many copies of the photo, and change a minor detail … with paint or photoshop; something small but noticeable like adding a mustache. Then I’ll set the background to point to an album of all the copies of the picture. Have it change at like 3-minute intervals so that at some point throughout the day, their background will show the mustache for 3 minutes.

Takes time for them to notice; and when they do, by they time they can point it out to someone, it’s gone!”

This nice shortcut was offered courtesy of bobmonkey07: 

Win+pause opens “system” so you’re right where you need [to be] for changing computer name/domain.

Bash Cheatsheet is a quick-reference guide that can help you get started with Linux bash shell scripting. Kindly suggested by Extradiscipline_644.

Looking Glass is an easy-to-deploy PHP option that allows you to get network information by executing commands on the router and then gathering the output for the user. thegreattriscuit explains, “[it’s] the project behind equinix’s LG.”