This is a VOIP app called MobileConnect. It was getting a bit cumbersome using two different phone apps to make a call. I couldn’t find any documentation on how to allow MobileConnect to “hook” into Android’s default phone app. I finally figured it out for anybody out there with the same problem.
WireGuard VPN
A VPN is perfect for those of you us who need access to our home networks while away. I’ve tried cloud hosting my VPN server, but soon realized this would only work if I kept my home network constantly connected to the VPN. Not to mention it cost me $5 bucks a month. Ultimately, I…
Purview Email Encryption
I recently had the opportunity to help setup Purview email encryption in a Microsoft tenant that was upgraded to 365 Business Premium licenses (from Business Standard). Along with many other data governance tools, the Business Premium license includes Azure Information Protection. AIP provides the encryption capabilities that Purview uses to enable 365 message encryption. A…
Remote Desktop Task Manager
I recently ran into an issue after remoting into a Windows machine using RDP where I saw a completely white screen. My initial response was to hit CTRL + ALT + DEL, but this pulls up the task manager on my local machine, not the remote machine with the white screen. Here are a couple…
60 Day Challenge: CAHIMS Certification
As I near the completion of my undergraduate degree in computer science and await an acceptance letter from Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program (hopefully), I find myself faced with a lot of free time. I’ve been working in healthcare information technology for the past 10 months. The most obvious pivot at this point is to combine…
Privilege Escalation with Quick Assist
The inability to perform actions requiring administrator privileges is a big limitation of Windows Quick Assist remote desktop. This is especially true in a business environment where your users should never have administrator privileges. The reason for this is User Account Control (UAC) security policies. UAC allows users to sign in using a standard user…
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman wrote a paper describing a cryptographic technique to exchange a shared secret publicly. Here’s a link to the original paper. It is an interesting historical moment that has shaped the internet and modern computing as we know it. It is definitely worth a read. I’ll also link a…
Merging .txt / .csv / .tsv files
If you have a collection of tab or comma delimited files that you want to combine or merge into one document, you can use the CMD TYPE command: type *.txt > mergedfile.txt The TYPE command displays the contents of one or more text files to the console. This will work as long as each file…
2024 New York International Auto Show
A few pictures from the 2024 New York International Auto Show