Author Archives: jasontarby

About jasontarby

Enterprise Architect / Network Engineer at SRA International, Inc.

Breaking into a Linux Appliance (with OTP enforced)

Linux appliances are somewhat of a Blackbox. In order to get a good Nessus scan of the appliance, I needed to be able to authenticate over SSH with a privileged account. This particular appliance hid the grub menu and the … Continue reading

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MobSF with Dynamic Analysis

About The following are my notes on how to setup MobSF using Docker and Windows Hyper-V (instead of WSL2), and using the Android Developer Studio VMs (instead of Gerrymotion). Prerequisites In my environment, we are not permitted to use WSL2, … Continue reading

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Office 365 Migration Issues

We just went though a migration from our on premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365. While the initial migration of users went smoothly, we experienced the following issues: Email migration did not migrate all email messages, but the wizard said … Continue reading

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Huawei Mate 9 Pro–Issue with T-Mobile data after update

After receiving the November 5, 2017 security update to my Huawei Mate 9 Pro phone, data connections to the LTE T-Mobile network are very unstable. Rebooting allows a data connection only for a few minutes and then you are disconnected … Continue reading

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Enable Milk Music on CM12

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I prefer to a rooted non-stock rom. I recently installed Resurrection Lollipop. This rom is based on CM12 and the Samsung Milk Music application will not install. To get the application to install … Continue reading

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How to permanently hide the tools bar in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Adobe has rebranded Adobe Acrobat Reader as adobe Acrobat Reader DC. The new version adds a toolbar that you can not permanently hide. While you can temporally hide the toolbar by click on the arrow to close it, the next … Continue reading

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Windows 8.1 Does Not Search Google Drive

Issue: When you use the Windows 8.1 search feature, you do not see results from documents in your Google Drive. Cause: This is caused by the “System” object not having permissions to the Google Drive folder. Solution: In Explorer, browse … Continue reading

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Windows 8.1 “Couldn’t Mount File” error when mounting ISO

Issue: You receive an error “Couldn’t Mount File” when attempting to mount an ISO file in Microsoft Windows 8.1. Cause: When you download an ISO file to an NTFS volume, Windows may set the “sparse” attribute on the file. A … Continue reading

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Outlook 2013, IMAP, and “You don’t have permission to create an entry in this folder” error

Symptom Using an IMAP email account with Outlook 2013 and no email are displaying in the main “Inbox” fold. If you try to create a new email in the “Inbox” folder you receive the error “You don’t have permission to … Continue reading

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Smart Card (CAC) Authentication with IIS 8.5

In this example I will show you how to setup IIS to require smart card authentication using the DoD Root CA 2, but you can configure IIS to use any trusted root certificate authority. For this example I am using … Continue reading

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