Hello all, This post is a continuation of the adventure into my first helpdesk job. I wanted to touch on my experience to help those who are looking to gain a clearer picture of what to expect before going into similar roles. Please keep in mind that due to strict…
Month: July 2024
IT Help Desk – My Second Week of Training
Hello, This is a another additional post following up my training experience with my new help desk job. I wanted to touch on my experience to help those who are looking to gain a clearer picture of what to expect before going into similar roles. Please keep in mind that…
Global Outages from Crowdstrike Blue Screen
Hello all, Today’s news is very recent as of writing this post. Crowdstrike, a company aimed to protect against threat actors, announced today that they were experiencing technical issues with their software, and based on some updates, users that had Crowdstrike installed were experiencing a blue screen error on their…
16-bit Hash Collisions, it’s raining cats and dogs
Are password protected excel spreadsheets really password protected? As it turns out, not necessarily. When you set a password in excel, that password isn’t encrypted. This means that, you can see it somewhere in the system. Didier Stevens, a security researcher, figured out that you could cycle through many of…
WAZUH Home Lab Project (Security Information Event Manager)
Hello everyone, today’s post is going to be something interesting that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I had experimented in the past few months with implementing a security information event manager into my own environment, with the intentions to gain a better understanding on how to analyze…
IT Help Desk – My First Week of Training
Hello all, Thank you for joining me in this journey as I take on my first role in the world of IT. I wanted to touch on my experience so far with the training process, as I get used to the duties of my first IT job. Please keep in…
Patience + Planning = Gain
Hey guys, David here. I hope you’re having a lovely day. Today’s post is about how sometimes waiting to make a big purchase can work to your benefit, perhaps finding a cheaper solution in a place you would have never expected. It’s a shorter post as I want to get…
Foot In The Door: Welcome to IT, David
I have very exciting news. Thank you to all my readers of the DavidInfosec Blog. It’s David here once again, with a brief blog post to announce that after over 400+ applications and frequent updates to projects and developing strategic business relationships, I’ve landed a role in IT. It’s been…