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WARNING: Spoilers for Mindhunter season 2. How was the BTK Strangler caught in real life? In Mindhunter, Sonny Valicenti portrays a mysterious character credited as “ADT Serviceman.” The storyline reveals that he’s the infamous “Bind, Torture, Kill” serial killer, Dennis Rader, who murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991. In real life, BTK wasn’t caught until 2005, so what is Netflix setting up for future Mindhunter seasons? Mindhunter explores criminal psychology techniques that were developed by the FBI Behavioral Science Unit during the ‘70s....

Objective In this lab, we will cover all the steps to perform memory analysis using Redline for malware/malicious programs. In this lab, we will use various memory samples of malware infected systems. Memory samples to use in Lab: Labs_raw.img Lab.mans Lab_Handles.mans Lab_Hooks.mans Lab_Hooks_raw.img Also, the lab will consist of an IOC that can be used directly in section “Using IOC to automate the process in Redline”. Note: .mans files are already loaded files of various memory samples....

Microsoft Office 2021 This new version of Office replaces Office 2019 and is not to be confused with Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). Microsoft 365 is the subscription service and Office applications are continually updated with new features. Of course, if you don’t pay you will lose access to it. If you buy a perpetual license of Office 2021 you own it forever. But you don’t get new features over time like with the subscription version....

Microsoft Officially Offering Solution to Disable Get Windows 10 app Microsoft’s next push is to get small business and enterprise to upgrade. Soon, the Get Windows 10 app will be extended to domain joined PCs running Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 Pro. This is a critical group of Windows users, Microsoft knows it does not want to irritate them. Just for that, the company is providing technical instructions on how to block the Windows 10 upgrade....

Windows 11 Preview Build 22000.160 Microsoft has been updating some of its built-in apps recently like the Snipping Tool, Calculator, and Mail & Calendar. And today the company is starting to roll out a new version of the Clock App. The new app has new visuals that blend well with the Windows 11 polish as well as new features. In addition to the new Clock app, today’s build contains the following changes and improvements:...

Windows 10 1803 April 2018 Update For those of you running Windows 10 1803 and delaying the 1809 update for now, here is what you can expect with today’s cumulative update KB4467702: Provides protections against an additional subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as Speculative Store Bypass (CVE-2018-3639) for AMD-based computers. These protections aren’t enabled by default. For Windows client (IT pro) guidance, follow the instructions in KB4073119. For Windows Server guidance, follow the instructions in KB4072698....

A24 is officially releasing Ari Aster’s extended director’s cut of Midsommar in theaters this weekend. The followup to Aster’s acclaimed feature debut, Hereditary, Midsommar revolves around Dani (Florence Pugh), a troubled young woman stuck in a toxic relationship with Christian (Jack Reynor), her boyfriend of four years. However, after a horrifying personal tragedy keeps them together, Christian begrudgingly invites Dani - or, rather, she invites herself - on a trip with his friends to check out a rare midsummer festival held by the small Swedish village where their pal, Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), grew up....

Melissa Joan Hart returned to her role as Sabrina Spellman from Sabrina the Teenage Witch for a sketch on The Late Late Show with James Corden. The sitcom, based on the Archie Comics series of the same name, debuted in 1996 on ABC. The cast included Hart, who played the titular character, Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick who played her aunts Hilda and Zelda, respectively, and Nick Bakay who provided the voice for her sassy cat, Salem....

This morning on Twitter, Microsoft Announced a new program which allows current college students in the US and the UK to receive Windows 7 Home Premium OR Windows 7 Professional at a sharp discount. $29.99 for US Students and £30 for UK Students. Students in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Korea, and Mexico can also participate in the offer. However, they will need to wait until October 22nd (Windows 7 Release Day....

What is a Search Connector? We’ve talked about How To make your search connector for home use before, but what about in a corporate environment? Microsoft has this to say: Microsoft Released the following search connectors on their public download site: WikipediaEncyclopedia BritannicaGoogle BlogFlickrGoogle NewsMSDNThe RegisterTechNetBusiness WeekBingBing NewsBing Local SearchBing Image SearchYouTubeYahooYahoo NewsYahoo Images The download site doesn’t list any as compatible with Windows 7 or Vista; however, the OSDX version works fine....

For those of you out there with a Windows Home Server, you might be interested in a new download Microsoft released today. I noticed it today on the Microsoft Download Center Feed – It’s called the Windows Home Server Toolkit V1.1. Now, call me crazy BUT, I don’t see the logic here. If a product for the “HOME” requires a toolkit to troubleshoot it and get it working, the manufacturer has failed....

Mimeo Photos has been one of the popular choices to continue printing photos within the Mac Photos app after Apple discontinued its native printing service. Now Mimeo Photos has arrived on iPhone and iPad to make it easy to print right from your camera roll and more. Mimeo Photos is now available for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The app makes it seamless to turn your pictures into photobooks, cards, calendars, photo puzzles, large prints on metal and canvas, and even blankets and throws....

Girls is a TV series on HBO that centers around four narcissistic 20-somethings struggling to make it in New York City. It’s a concept that has been done plenty of times before, yet no show is able to capture the realism of trying to make it as a young adult quite like Dunham’s creation. Girls manages to display the ugly side of growing up which serves as a refreshing counterpoint to the usual glitz and glamour we are used to seeing on TV....

In its statement on TechNet blog, Microsoft says the delay is due to “a last minute issue” but the company is being quiet on what the issue is. Although, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet did report that Microsoft was having problems with its patch build system. However, in a later update, Microsoft had no further comment other than what it posted on its blog post. This is a rare decision from Microsoft and it leaves organizations without a patch for a memory corruption bug in handling SMB traffic which could allow a remote DoS attack....

KB4522355 for Windows 10 1903 After installing today’s new cumulative update your build number will be bumped to 18362.449 and it will include the following list of improvements and fixes: Addresses an issue with the behavior of the Origin HTTP header when you use Internet Explorer to make cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests to redirect resources in internal subnets.Addresses an issue that prevents Microsoft Narrator from working in certain touch mode scenarios....

The Teams search function should now be more consistent with search in other Microsoft products and deliver faster results, according to a Microsoft blogpost. The update is generally available. Microsoft has redesigned four search pages and introduced a new version of the “All”, “Messages”, “People”, and “Files” filtering tabs. Results should be more relevant since Microsoft is using AI to ensure results are influenced by the people and content users engage with most in Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications....

HomeKit Smart plugs are one of the easiest ways to get started with smart home technology as they are usually low cost, easy to install, and work great with the lamps you already have in your home. A recent addition to my smart home environment is the Meross dual smart plug with HomeKit compatibility. HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework....

New features have also been delivered as major out of band updates through the Windows Store. Each release adopts a theme. The Creators Update, for instance, puts emphasis on creativity, with a plethora of features for users who want to make and share stuff, whether it’s 3D imagery using the new Paint 3D app or annotations made with the improved inking features. The Creators Update is bursting with a lot of refinements and the more than two years of constant feedback and testing has done wonders for the operating system....

Windows 10 Build 21318 For the Clipboard tool, you can now paste as plain text in Clipboard History. “Simply open clipboard history (WIN + V) and click the … button next to any text-based entry in your clipboard history – you will now see a “Paste as plain text” option alongside pin and delete!” Here is the list of changes and improvements included in this release: Insiders using x64 apps on ARM64 will no longer need to download and install a separate preview version of the ARM64 C++ redistributable package....

Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity apps has long been rumored to be in development for the iPad shortly after the tablet’s debut in 2010. Most notably was The Daily (now defunct) reporting it had knowledge (and screenshots) of Microsoft’s software for Apple’s mobile platform in 2011, something Microsoft was quick to deny was legitimate. Three years and one CEO later, Microsoft is finally ready to play nice with the iPad....