Posts made by Nic

@scottalanmiller I'm in!

@scottalanmiller yep, I'll be there! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

@dbeato said in Cross platform automated patch management:

@Nic said in Cross platform automated patch management:

Here's the link to the Automox community, for anyone who wants to check it out:
https://community.automox.com/

Don't worry, I'm still here in MangoLassi to answer questions you have as well!

Are they still with their limited amount of packages or software?

Yes, but we're working on it. We're in the midst of testing for rolling out a bunch more. Our goal is to get our list to over 100 third party apps by the end of the year.

Here's the link to the Automox community, for anyone who wants to check it out:
https://community.automox.com/

Don't worry, I'm still here in MangoLassi to answer questions you have as well!

Updated info from Jay:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2228240-a-follow-up-to-last-week-s-news-your-questions-answered

@SQLMartinis that's a good point on WARN. For those of you who aren't familiar it's a federal law stating that anytime a company lays off more than 50 people at one location, they must give 60 days notice. In practice they usually just give two months severance rather than have you work the full 60 days. I've been a part of layoffs where this applied, and most times the companies try to lie to you about how they are giving two months severance because they are so generous. They don't admit that they are only doing it because it's the law.

@Dashrender said in Cross platform automated patch management:

@Nic said in Cross platform automated patch management:

@scottalanmiller thanks for pinging us

I am indeed at Automox now. We're building a community for our user base to share tips and scripts that you can run through our agent. Once the community is out of beta I'll announce it here so you can check it out. In the meantime if you want a trial of the product to check it out, let me or Richard know and we can get you setup.

Welcome back to IT...

Thanks While I enjoyed the world of cannabis, it wasn't a true passion like technology.

Confirmed layoffs being listed here:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2226718-with-the-changes-in-the-community-would-like-to-say-thanks-to

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2226651-the-next-chapter-in-the-spiceworks-story
Will be interesting to see what happens.

@scottalanmiller thanks for pinging us

I am indeed at Automox now. We're building a community for our user base to share tips and scripts that you can run through our agent. Once the community is out of beta I'll announce it here so you can check it out. In the meantime if you want a trial of the product to check it out, let me or Richard know and we can get you setup.

that seems really stupid

@Kelly said in Equifax claims process is now open:

Thanks for posting this @Nic. I had someone open a credit card in my name with information stolen from Equifax. Luckily they didn't use it for anything before it got flagged.

Glad it got caught before causing you any damage. You can still claim any time you spent dealing with this, such as time on the phone with credit agencies or your bank.

@Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open:

@Nic said in Equifax claims process is now open:

PP didn't offer any other 2FA options than SMS at the time, but it looks like they've finally gotten with the times:
https://benbrian.net/authenticator-app-support-in-paypal-finally/

When did this happen? I know PP has supported third party tokens of OTP for many years - at least 5. They might not have supported, say Google authenticator, or MS authenticator, but they definitely supported purchasable tokens.

According to the blog post link above:
Until recently, PayPal really only offered one form of 2FA, which they call “2-step verification”: SMS.

On the seller side you might have more options:
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-enable-2fa-(two-factor-authentication)-for-my-paypal-powered-by-braintree-user-faq3500

but as just a regular Paypal user you were stuck with SMS until two months ago.

@Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open:

@Nic said in Equifax claims process is now open:

Yeah they were definitely social engineering and using stolen info to do so. They were answering my Paypal security questions before they resorted to the SIM cloning. I had to change my answers to the security questions to strong passwords instead of actual answers about what my first pet was named. I knew they were fucking with my phone because it kept ringing and then hanging up instantly. I'm assuming they were testing out their setup before triggering the 2FA text.

Aww - yeah that definitely sucks. And they did this twice?

Does PP not offer a OTP option - i.e. offline app only on your phone, not SMS for 2FA?

Yeah they did it twice, within the span of a couple weeks. The first time I didn't realize they were using info about me to answer security questions to reset the password, so I just changed my password and turned on 2FA. The second time was when they started using the text 2FA to get a verification code to change the password.

PP didn't offer any other 2FA options than SMS at the time, but it looks like they've finally gotten with the times:
https://benbrian.net/authenticator-app-support-in-paypal-finally/

@murpheous You have no credit history??

Yeah they were definitely social engineering and using stolen info to do so. They were answering my Paypal security questions before they resorted to the SIM cloning. I had to change my answers to the security questions to strong passwords instead of actual answers about what my first pet was named. I knew they were fucking with my phone because it kept ringing and then hanging up instantly. I'm assuming they were testing out their setup before triggering the 2FA text.

@Dashrender nice! I put in for the 10 years protection, and the full 20 hours for $500. I had my Paypal hacked twice last year, despite having (shitty phone based) 2FA and security questions in place. They were cloning my SIM and resetting my password. The hackers ended up spending $700 on a fake Airbnb listing. Paypal did get me the money back, but I spend a long time online playing whack-a-mole with password resets and on the phone with Paypal.

@travisdh1 one good thing to remember is that any time you spent freezing your credit is eligible for the $25/hour reimbursement. If you spent an hour with each agency turning on the freeze then that's $100.

You can get 10 years credit monitoring (or opt for a $125 cash payment) and up to 20 hours of your time paid for at $25/hour dealing with credit/identity theft issues:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/equifax-data-breach-settlement

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@travisdh1 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@JaredBusch That's impressive. I have way to many games I want to play in the time I allot myself each week to even think about doing all the achievements.

I do not play a lot of game anymore. Because when I play, I want to seriously play. So I limit my game count.

Same here.

I thought you hoard Steam games?

Hoard does not mean play. It means spend money for no reason.

I call it "retirement planning" . My expectation is that the retirement community I move to will be one big LAN party.