Not only since my seven security tips1 have I been getting questions about why I prefer to keep Windows and an Active Directory2 offline. That may sound inflexible, and in an era of AI-generated cybersecurity slop3 I may look like an outsider. So in today’s blog post I provide more context, explain the technical background, and lay out how ransomware works. Read more

If you have an own PKI in your AD, you may stop reading and move on. Nothing to see here. My gut however tell me, many mid-sized companies don’t have one and are at the mercy of Alex Neff’s Python script.1 Wsuks2 positions itself as man-in-the-middle between a Windows Update Server (WSUS) and the various servers/clients. Read more