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BlueBorne

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Sreeraj Nair

BlueBorne is the latest and the deadliest vulnerability related to Bluetooth. It’s details were published on 12 September 2017. Since it can spread like an airborne disease to any device that has bluetooth enabled on it, the exploit is aptly … Continue reading →

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The ‘Open’ Heartbleed

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Sreeraj Nair

Before I start, let me; let everyone know that I’m not a fan of opensource, to the extent that you can call me anti opensource. So, on 7th April 2014, the world woke up to heartbleed, a vulnerability in the … Continue reading →

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How to set the Default Excel Version when you have multiple versions on your server/PC

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Sreeraj Nair

As per Microsoft, you need to install the oldest version first and the newest version last, if you intend to use multiple versions of MS Office on the same machine. There are KB articles for each version of Office that … Continue reading →

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Server has the RAID configuration intact but still can’t find the OS to boot up

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Sreeraj Nair

I think all of us would have been in this situation sometime or the other where we have a server whose RAID config has not been lost but the server is still not able to find the OS. It is … Continue reading →

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WINSXS

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Sreeraj Nair

Who ate my disk ????????????????????????????? It’s that folder which resides in C:\Windows and takes up a lot of space on your Windows Server 2008 machine and which didn’t used to do that in Windows Server 2003. What does it contain?, … Continue reading →

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Watson

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Sreeraj Nair

From Science Fiction to Reality The other day, I was looking at a VB Script, which needed to be modified just a bit in order to be useful for me. Being a scripting illiterate, I was overwhelmed by the complexity … Continue reading →

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How Kerberos Works

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair

What happens at the windows logon screen between the time you press enter after entering your credentials and ‘Loading Your Personal Settings’ message appears It hardly takes a second for your password to be accepted at the logon screen but … Continue reading →

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IT in Retail

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair

How it’s different from other Sectors It’s been two month’s since my last blog, in these two months, I celebrated my birthday, got hospitalized for the first time in my life and also switched my job (quite an eventful period, … Continue reading →

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The “SERVER” and “WORKSTATION” services

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair

Why are they named so?? The file and printer sharing service in Windows is called the “SERVER” service but every other server service has a name which explains what it serves, like DNS Service or the DHCP service then why does the … Continue reading →

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Hiding Folders with Access Based Enumeration (ABE)

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair

Invisible Folders We have a heavily used Windows File Server which acts as the only way to share files within a department and with other departments in the corporate head office. The folders are all secure with NTFS permissions wherein every user is … Continue reading →

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