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With the recent CDK outage, it's broadly believed that they had no backups and resorted to paying the ransom on #ransomware in order to get a key and get their data restored. Someone proposed the idea that they might have been breached, had the data stolen and paid a blackmailer to keep them from releasing the data into the wild. Does this story make sense? Why or why not? #hack #security #informationtechnology #breach https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller

It might feel like there is no harm in spending an extra few seconds looking over that message that you are 99% sure is SPAM. What's the harm? Well, in reality, it's pretty risky. #spam #security #informationtechnology https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ^^^ Support Me Directly ^^^ Hire me & my team: sales@ntg.co Buy My Book: Linux Administration Best Practices https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching-ebook/dp/B09PC3X6BW/

How can CDK be still down after all of this time? Don't they know how backups work? Boomberg is reporting that they will pay tens of millions to pay off the ransom! If that were true, where would that money go? Sending tens of millions to foreign, enemy agents surely is money laundering and a major crime. How can they be allowed to even consider such an option? Especially when the system had no basic precautions taken against this? Something is clearly wrong. Calling on the FBI to look into this. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/cdk-hackers-want-millions-in-ransom-to-end-car-dealership-outage?ftag=MSFd61514f https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller

The LAN or Local Area Network is a core buiding block of our understanding of interconnected computing systems. #informationtechnology #localareanetwork #itbasics https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ^^^ Support Me Directly ^^^ Hire me & my team: sales@ntg.co Buy My Book: Linux Administration Best Practices https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching-ebook/dp/B09PC3X6BW/

#activedirectory in 2024 is still to be virtualzed? #virtual servers are the norm but has the decline and death of Microsoft's Hyper-V changed anything? Kris Leslie asks for an update to our previous guidance. https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller

Okay, in no way is this a post mortem, but the point stands that there is a lot of warning signs and red flags here long before digging into anything further. We know tons about the vendor and the customers before we even know exactly what happened. And will we ever know the truth? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cdk-global-cyberattack-impacts-thousands-of-us-car-dealerships/ #cyberattack #ransomware #computersecurity I've had years of videos warning about these things, but it's all warned about in my book, too! Linux Administration Best Practices by Me: https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching-ebook/dp/B09PC3X6BW/ https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller

#Email and #DNS can be quite confusing and MX records play such a critical role in both. In today's episode we will break down the usage of MX records to help you understand what role they are playing in your communications infrastructure which will, in turn, allow you to understand how to ensure that they are managed correctly, protect them, host them, and troubleshoot email flow issues. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ^^^^ Support me and the Channel ^^^^ Linux Administration Best Practices by Me: https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching-ebook/dp/B09PC3X6BW/ I have worked as a consultant at NTG, a global technology and business consulting practice for more than a quarter of a century. Reach out for guidance, consulting, IT outsources, etc. info@ntg.co https://ntg.co/ Check out my other channels for more content: https://youtube.com/@ScottAlanMillerVlog https://youtube.com/@Nicaragua360 https://youtube.com/@cameracafebyscott https://youtube.com/@NicaRumba https://youtube.com/@drivewarp https://youtube.com/@TakeFlightWithScott https://youtube.com/@thisisnicaragua https://youtube.com/@scottalanmiller https://youtube.com/@everydayvloggerscott

Why does your company need to register its own private domain name just to do normal business? The reasons might surprise you. #registrar #domainnames #customurl https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ^^^^ Support me and the Channel ^^^^ https://www.flickr.com/photos/becker271/2955468015/ Linux Administration Best Practices by Me: https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching-ebook/dp/B09PC3X6BW/ I have worked as a consultant at NTG, a global technology and business consulting practice for more than a quarter of a century. Reach out for guidance, consulting, IT outsources, etc. info@ntg.co https://ntg.co/ Check out my other channels for more content: https://youtube.com/@ScottAlanMillerVlog https://youtube.com/@Nicaragua360 https://youtube.com/@cameracafebyscott https://youtube.com/@NicaRumba https://youtube.com/@drivewarp https://youtube.com/@TakeFlightWithScott https://youtube.com/@thisisnicaragua https://youtube.com/@scottalanmiller https://youtube.com/@everydayvloggerscott

LAN or Local Area Network

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Building your shortlist for Linux desktops for your business this year. Support the channel: https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller Looking to hire my IT consulting firm? Email us: sales@ntg.co https://ntg.co/ My book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

We are continuing our series on how email works and digging into one of the most important aspects of email... which isn't even email. Support the channel: https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller Looking to hire my IT consulting firm? Email us: sales@ntg.co https://ntg.co/ My book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

I've had a lot of requests for this series and I am excited to be kicking it off. We are going to deep dive into what it really means to send an email, what people confuse with email, understanding email components, workflows and more. We are starting here... What Constitutes an Email. Support the channel: https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller Looking to hire my IT consulting firm? Email us: sales@ntg.co https://ntg.co/ My book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

Veterinarians and vet clinics need to carefully evaluate how they will purchase and use their clinical information systems in their respective practices. This is a decision that should be headed by IT to filter inappropriate solutions from being short listed and to keep predatory vendors from gaining direct access to vets to attempt to sell products without going through a proper vetting process. If you are looking for veterinary IT support whether for decision making at this high level, supporting PIMs you already have in place, supporting desktops, servers, firewalls, printers, etc. talk to our friends at CCWTechnology, the veterinary IT specialists. https://ccwtechnology.com/ If you'd like to support me directly, please buy me a coffee (or a few) at: https://buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller/ My book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

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So many companies advertise a fake email service as "secure email" and use a fake fear that email isn't secure to try to sell people on it. Scamming people, lies, and social engineering are *not* how you provide true security. What exactly is "secure email", do we need it, and why is it a problem? We should probably stop using it altogether. Today, we are going to look at why. ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

If you've ever tried to buy web hosting for yourself or your company you have probably encountered a rather surprising problem - that there just aren't any good web hosting companies. There is a plethora of hosting options out there but do any of them even attempt to take into consideration your unique hosting needs or technology stack? Do any consult with you to guide you on how best to deploy? Do any integrate with all of your technology to provide good hosting? In today's episode we are going to examine real world market pressures and explain why it is unlikely that you will ever find good hosting, why this will not change, and why it is no problem whatsoever. And in doing so will demonstrate how best to approach getting the web hosting that you need! ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

This is a tough question, and companies tend to get pretty weird about it. What factors should you be considering both from a practical standpoint and doing their right thing for your employees. ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

Remember disk partitions? Hopefully they sound like some legacy concept you shouldn't have to worry about today. But many IT pros don't even realize that the were long ago replaced. ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

A somewhat famous Linux certification trick question used on many exams is this: what is the minimum number of partitions necessary to install Linux. Watch to learn why this isn't a valid question, why it is a trick, and how every exam gets it wrong and how this has exposed the complete lack of oversight, professional review and even internal review in the certification process. ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

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Bad management is often a leading cause of companies wanting to bring staff back to the office. Sitting in an office makes it so much easier to hide the fact that people are not really being productive or that managers aren't sure how to manage. ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

If you buy a new server and find that it is far, far slower than you would ever have guessed, there is a good chance that it is because "new" ancient drive technology is being used. Often overlooked, storage performance is often the most critical factor in server performance and it is where vendors often try to cut corners resulting in expensive, brand new servers failing to compete with old laptops in many tasks! ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/

It is so tempting to interview as many people as possible and end up overwhelming ourselves with all of the options from doing so. We hate to have to face the possibility of not interviewing and selecting that "perfect candidate" but the harsh reality is that even if we talk to them, the chances that we will identify them during an interview process is low. Instead we should focus on what works and limit our choices dramatically to lower the cost, increase the speed, and most importantly improve the results of our interviewing and hiring processes. ------------------ Hire me or my team: sales@ntg.co ------------------ To directly support the channel, every "coffee" really helps: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottalanmiller ------------------ I also wrote a book called "Linux Administration Best Practices". It helps me a lot when people buy it from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Administration-Best-Practices-approaching/dp/1800568797/