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The State of Telnet on the Internet – My Findings

This is my first in, I hope, a series of posts about the ‘state of things on the internet’ along with my findings and anything interesting I may have come across along the way.

This post will be about the state of Telnet (Port 23) on the internet from the perspective of a single internet-scanning host (read more in the methodologies section below). I’ll be going through some statistics including: top countries, top brands and/or firmware and lastly, an analysis on banner responses.

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PaperCut Real-Time Activity Dashboard

In this post I will walk you through setting up a PaperCut real-tine activity display for your office. Not only does it look good but it can also be very useful for staff on the service desk who may be dealing with printer issues/queries.

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Office 2016 Network Shortcuts Save Issue

This is a quick post to help sysadmins facing save issues with Microsoft Office 2016 – specifically the action of saving to the Documents folder and being redirected to Network Shortcuts instead. This issue may be present in Office 2013 too but it’s not what I have deployed in my environment so cannot say for sure if the same symptoms occur on 2013.

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Duo Security IP Address Range

Here are the IP ranges used by Duo Security for authentication purposes – list correct as of September 2016. Duo don’t make this list public (security through obscurity?) but they do give it to customers on request so here they are:

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Palo Alto MineMeld Example Configuration

MineMeld is an “extensible Threat Intelligence processing framework and the ‘multi-tool’ of threat indicator feeds. Based on an extremely flexible engine, MineMeld can be used to collect, aggregate and filter indicators from a variety of sources and make them available for consumption to peers or to the Palo Alto Networks security platforms.”

It was recently open-sourced by Palo Alto and can be found on Github.