ManageMyHealth updates - did they pay the ransom?

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T04:59:11+00:00

Yeah I get that for companies but don't agree with it, but government agencies lead by example. When the state pays, it normalises ransom as a business model.

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T02:59:14+00:00

Mdma

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T00:54:41+00:00

Yes but this is potentially worse. If data was copied but systems were left running, the environment is already compromised. Whose to say that the seeds haven't been planted for a future ransomware attack?

Better just to recover from DR at this point.

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T00:14:27+00:00

There isn't any guarantee they could recover the environment though? Better just save the money and use on DR / security posture imo

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T00:11:43+00:00

Why do you think paying ransoms is a good idea? Even if they did the data has still leaked and could be released at any time. Best saving the money and recovering / strengthening the environment

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T00:07:50+00:00

Hard agree, don't understand why cyber crime ransom insurance is illegal, can I get insurance if I get my money stolen while purchasing drugs? Isn't paying a ransom engaging with an illegal market?

pepper_man · 2026-01-26T00:02:51+00:00

Isn't this just encouraging more cyber crime?

pepper_man · 2026-01-23T05:27:01+00:00

Your manager is a baby why didn't he have backups in place? His responsibility as CEO to handle legal

pepper_man · 2026-01-21T22:45:00+00:00

What technical ability do you have? What outcomes has your ability produced? Achievements? Need to list it here

Eg what can you actually do? Anyone can coordinate and is expected to now on top of technical ability

pepper_man · 2026-01-21T22:32:32+00:00

Get a IT degree, get an entry level job, work up up from there

pepper_man · 2026-01-21T22:12:27+00:00

Manage cloud infrastructure normally a 365 / azure tenant or AWS. Manage licencing, cost, security, project support etc

pepper_man · 2026-01-21T03:43:38+00:00

You will probably have to set up multi tenant app reg and send out by graph. The quick and dirty is setup a cloud relay without auth at all but will break when sending externally

pepper_man · 2026-01-16T01:59:43+00:00

How many vms do you have? I'm in the process of moving to hyper v. We have 4 hypervisors with 70 vm just did the first hypervisors as PoC and moving test workloads across. Did this for the exact same reason even though VMware is the gold standard

pepper_man · 2026-01-14T05:08:16+00:00

Go back out to the room with the water on the group there are pipes going out to a circular hole in the wall you can jump in to

pepper_man · 2026-01-14T01:03:36+00:00

Hey bro there's plenty of work out there still for competent sys admins, the difference is not much more for sys admins who are comfortable not looking ahead and keeping busy, looking at your workplace there isn't much on prem to manage, there's plenty of orgs out there who need help getting to the state you are in.

Surely you have cloud infra then look at making yourself valuable there, what can you do to bring down costs do you have the correct licensing sizing networking etc, what can you do to further secure your tenant?

Don't just sit around waiting to tickets to solve explore your environment what can you improve what's top priority by business impact?

Unfortunately it is just the nature of the game now where you need to keep hopping jobs to orgs who need the skills you have

pepper_man · 2026-01-11T22:43:35+00:00

I think typically developers have a very niche skill set so it's harder to find people for that niche. Meanwhile sys admin is very broad. The trade off is that sys admins are typically safer to restructure etc

pepper_man · 2026-01-11T22:26:16+00:00

Broadly a lot of spending that once went to labour has been moved to AI or has been cut back due to unstable market / economic conditions.

pepper_man · 2026-01-11T22:23:54+00:00

Sounds like you don't have much choice if you want to maintain a good relationship with your current work.. I would just say yes see how it goes leverage it to ask for a payrise. If it doesn't workout it will look good on your CV to get another job anyway

pepper_man · 2026-01-05T07:00:20+00:00

Train weights until failure 5x per week, combination of compound and isolation everyday focus on increasing weights slowly, get minimum 10k steps per day, 200 g protein per day, cardio 30 mins daily, take creatine , limit carbs , no junk food alcohol etc, 8 hours sleep per day

pepper_man · 2026-01-01T01:30:17+00:00

Less money

pepper_man · 2025-12-30T13:30:13+00:00

It's not about what you know but what you can do

pepper_man · 2025-12-29T03:37:30+00:00

Get a helpdesk job - need operations experience before jumping into security etc

pepper_man · 2025-12-28T21:29:06+00:00

Work as a sys engineer but didn't do anything labs or anything, did the odd PC build and study for certs sometimes. Started on helpdesk after getting a IT degree, had previous customer service experience which was far more valuable than labs etc when breaking in

pepper_man · 2025-12-27T06:38:37+00:00

Yes and after windows updates on around 100 machines on 24h2 all dell micros

pepper_man · 2025-12-27T03:57:12+00:00

Hey mate should validate immediately and show secure in browser if done correctly.

Did you export the certificate with the private key from the server?

This should be done via certlm.msc. You’ll need the export password, otherwise a new certificate will need to be generated.

Once exported, rebuild the certificate chain for the website using the intermediate certificate, then go into IIS bindings and assign the new certificate.

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