Is God Just a Human Invention? Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow (C) 2010 Kregel Publications Completed May, 2020 Summary: Anyone who has grown up in church and has asked difficult questions about faith and God has been told to “just believe it” at some time or another without being encouraged to search out answers. Sean […]
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Book Review: The Fifth Domain
The Fifth Domain Richard A Clarke and Robert K Knake (C) 2019 Penguin Press Completed March, 2020 Summary: Resilience is the key to maintaining secure systems in cyberspace. The idea here is to shift the advantage in cyberspace from the attacker to the defender. This quote sums it up, “We want to make our defenses […]
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Foreign To Familiar Sarah A. Lanier (C) 2000 McDougal Publishing Completed Feb, 2020 Summary: Lanier has lived in many countries across the globe. During that time she has grown in an understanding that cultures are different. In this book she identifies some broad differences between what she calls Hot-Climate and Cold-Climate cultures. Hot-climate cultures are […]
Continue readingBook Review: Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven
Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven L. Gregory Jones & Celestin Musekura (C) 2010 IVP Books Completed Jan, 2020 Summary: If you’ve over a certain age, you remember the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Many of us in the USA have only a passing knowledge of that series of events. We are aware that there were two […]
Continue readingBook Review: Cold-Case Christianity
Cold-Case Christianity J.Warner Wallace (C) 2013 David C. Cook Completed Jan, 2020 Summary: Wallace is a police detective in California specializing in cold-case investigations. A self-described “angry atheist”, Wallace attended a church service with a fellow officer and heard a characterization of Jesus that was different. Wallace began reading the Gospels and noticed they appeared […]
Continue readingWMIC: Retrieving drive information
I had a need today to see what partitions were available on one of my servers. I generally try to use a command line whenever possible to solve problems like this. So, I went down the rabbit hole of Google, and found some useful techniques. Problem: Need to gather information about the physical and logical […]
Continue readingLearning WMIC: part 3 – Software inventory per Critical Security Controls
The last time we saw how to use WMIC to find membership of an Active Directory group. That is useful, and should be done periodically as a part of the audit of the Windows environment. Here’s another problem for WMIC to help with… Problem: The Critical Security Controls identifies Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software […]
Continue readingLearning WMIC: part 2 – Finding Group Members
Let’s dig around a little deeper into the capabilities of WMIC and use WMIC to find information needed to solve a problem Problem: list the active users with access to a system, and the groups they belong to… Solution: 1. All user accounts that have access to a windows host can be listed using wmic […]
Continue readingLearning WMIC: part 1 – Basic Syntax
WMIC is a powerful means to access the Windows Management Interface from the command line. More information about WMI can be found at the Wikipedia page – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation There are a couple of scenarios for using WIMIC – against the local computer and against a remote computer. With either of the situations, WMIC will run by […]
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