What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Another fun day of ransomware remediation.
Another one?
Same one, got hit again because they didn't go to full scorched earth. It was a calculated risk. They know the attack vector now, though, it was identified as one of their non-IT vendors who is also in the same boat.
Internally, it was AD to spread. So they've removed AD to secure the environment.
AD like a VPN or RDS?
Nope, Just AD.
How was this and AD issue?
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Wondering if this would make an OK(ish) Lab server.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering if this would make an OK(ish) Lab server.
Sure - but why have your own box? why not just spin up some Vultr instances?
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@Dashrender Main reason is i want to test, Apps, Servers OS, Logging, Security, Pen Testing, stuff easily between all the VM in a isolated "Lab"
Have just found a HP Server for £150 (2x Xeon Hex Core, 128GB RAM )
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender Main reason is i want to test, Apps, Servers OS, Logging, Security, Pen Testing, stuff easily between all the VM in a isolated "Lab"
Have just found a HP Server for £150 (2x Xeon Hex Core, 128GB RAM )
The problem with any server class machine will be the noise of the fans.
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@Dashrender I've got a server room to hide it in
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering if this would make an OK(ish) Lab server.
Sure - but why have your own box? why not just spin up some Vultr instances?
Because he's like me, and wants to run about 50 different things, which adds up quicker than you'd think.
@hobbit666 That looks like an ok home lab box. I recently picked up a used server for a home lab myself. Mine is an R620, 2x E5-2660, 96GB RAM (24x4GB) PERC H710. I picked up 4 500GB SSD to put in it. It's frankly overkill for what I'm doing and have planned for it, but that just means I can experiment with more things. I say go for it.
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@travisdh1 Spot on
I've been looking into Elsatic Stack, Cyber Security, Pen Testing etc etc. Doing this on a laptop/desktop soon bombs out.
Don't want to do this on works network incaseSo i thought buy a "Lab" Server and do what i want
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Morning conference call.
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Dealing with Merchants & Professional Collection Bereau who is committing financial and medical fraud.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Merchants & Professional Collection Bereau who is committing financial and medical fraud.
Oh fun.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Merchants & Professional Collection Bereau who is committing financial and medical fraud.
sounds like a blast..
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with Merchants & Professional Collection Bereau who is committing financial and medical fraud.
sounds like a blast..
Those guys are crooks. Got them to say that they wouldn't take any action, even when they'd received paperwork from the people filing the false bill that it was false! They knew that it was fraud, and just hung up once they realized I knew.
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You mean they called out of the blue, saying you owed them money, and as soon as you called them out they just hung up.
Like people who send faxes for bills due for services not rendered or requested.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean they called out of the blue, saying you owed them money, and as soon as you called them out they just hung up.
Like people who send faxes for bills due for services not rendered or requested.
No, they have a doctor's office that made up a charge. They are owned or operate on behalf of the doctor's office. The doctor's office provided the paperwork that showed we owed nothing, but neither the doctor's office nor the debt collector care that they have that paperwork and want money anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean they called out of the blue, saying you owed them money, and as soon as you called them out they just hung up.
Like people who send faxes for bills due for services not rendered or requested.
No, they have a doctor's office that made up a charge. They are owned or operate on behalf of the doctor's office. The doctor's office provided the paperwork that showed we owed nothing, but neither the doctor's office nor the debt collector care that they have that paperwork and want money anyway.
how did you end up involved with them?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean they called out of the blue, saying you owed them money, and as soon as you called them out they just hung up.
Like people who send faxes for bills due for services not rendered or requested.
No, they have a doctor's office that made up a charge. They are owned or operate on behalf of the doctor's office. The doctor's office provided the paperwork that showed we owed nothing, but neither the doctor's office nor the debt collector care that they have that paperwork and want money anyway.
how did you end up involved with them?
My wife had visited a doctor's office in Houston who uses this collection agency to run their scams.
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Filing with the FTC Consumer Finance scam reporting agency right now.
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It is likely a standard scam that they run against insurance companies that most people don't notice because insurance just pays it. But since we paid in full to an agreed upon amount at the time of the event, and then left the country, we were acutely aware that it was a scam as there was no option for further charges.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
as there was no option for further charges.
There is always the option to just give them more money for no reason!
