{"id":36,"date":"2022-03-06T17:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/?p=36"},"modified":"2024-03-28T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:04:24","slug":"security-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/2022\/03\/06\/security-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some suspicious activity on the system. According to Rogers anyway. He runs the Records department not the IT Department.\u00a0 What does he know? He thinks that the password for Tech1 has been hacked. Unlikely as I used an unbreakable password.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also going on about firewalls and anti-virus software. I don\u2019t know how many times I\u2019ve told him that having a strong password means that a system doesn\u2019t need a firewall\u00a0<strong>or<\/strong>\u00a0anti-virus software.<\/p>\n<p>Another moan was that the web server isn\u2019t secure (give me a break). And all of the garbage about making sure that Remote Desktop is disabled on all of the accounts is complete and utter rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>I told him, look buddy, I\u2019m Jallard Kane.\u00a0 You know, the guy whose house is full of security awards and what I don\u2019t know about security hasn\u2019t been written yet.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo to shut up his moaning I\u2019ve done the following :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Changed the password of the User ID 1hceT (clever use of words here) to IWishItCouldBeXmasEveryday123 (no one will ever get that).<\/li>\n<li>Set up the web site on one of our internal systems.<\/li>\n<li>I also changed his password to something easy to prove the system is really secure and cannot be hacked.\u00a0 Hehe<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some suspicious activity on the system. According to Rogers anyway. He runs the Records department not the IT Department.\u00a0 What does he know? He thinks that the password for Tech1 has been hacked. Unlikely as I used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/2022\/03\/06\/security-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/nbcosmeticclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}