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Replacement options for the ZyXEL USG60 and USG60W

The ZyXEL USG60 and 60W made its debut in 2016 as a replacement for the USG50. It is a decent, entry level, enterprise grade, rack mount router, with a pretty solid command line interface. The wireless was always a little lacking, but that was more than made up for by its AP control, which could …

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Facebook Account Takeover Hack, but Meta Does the Most Damage

On February 24th, 2022, the same day that Russia invaded the Ukraine, my Facebook account was the target of a successful Account Takeover attack. In the 30 minutes it took for me to respond to the attack and get the account locked, the hacker/s exploited Facebook’s own tools to successfully lock me out of my …

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ZyXEL ZyWALL VPN100

The ZyXEL VPN100 is the company’s lowest tier of VPN/SD-WAN appliance that is Rack Mountable. Other options are the VPN50 (not rack mountable), VPN300 and VPN1000 (both rack mountable). The VPN100 includes 4x Gigabit LAN, 2x WAN, 1x SFP port, 1x DB9 console port and 2x USB 3.0 ports. Similar to other ZyWALL products, the …

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Powershell – Add-VpnConnection errors in Windows 10 Version 1909

Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections Showing VPN Owner as System

This document is straight up for sysadmins and PowerShell junkies (and Microsoft, assuming anyone from stumbles across this). Beginning somewhere around Windows 10, Version 1909 (18363.1256), an error appeared making long standing PowerShell scripts suddenly begin to fail. The Commmand Add-VpnConnection -Name ($ikename=Read-Host “VPN Name”) -ServerAddress ($fqdnval=Read-Host “fqdn”) -TunnelType Ikev2 -EncryptionLevel Maximum -AuthenticationMethod EAP -RememberCredential …

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