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I want to track process creation on Windows, with their launching arguments, and from what I could see it is possible natively enabling event ID 4688, but I am having trouble processing what it is being logged. It is a single local machine, so I don't have anything fancy to analyze those event logs. Searching on Google I got to software from various companies that deal in that, ingesting logs from multiple sources even, but not only it would be an overkill, I don't have a license for any. The problem I have is noise basically, an abundance of entries. The native Windows Event Viewer does offer some filtering, but I don't think it could have been any simpler 😞, one can choose to only see 4688s, but that's about it, no way to even exclude by path or image name. I thought the "keywords" field could allow me to do it, but it is something else (outcome of the event trigger it seems). Since some of you guys are sysadmins, I thought of asking, perhaps you had wanted to do this at some point or filter similar event logs and know how it could be done. I could filter by time, but it would be limiting either way, if at all possible I would prefer having those events logged at all times. Stumbled upon another option to accomplish the logging that involves running the process(es) under a debugger of sorts that hooks the APIs you want, in this case it would be those that lead to the creation of a new process, and then see those calls and the parameters used ... Nuts. I think it is better to filter what Windows logs instead. Thanks anyway!

Twitter's filter for offensive messages now rolling out across Android, iOS and web by Ather Fawaz Twitter has been working on various nifty features that are geared towards enhancing the user experience. In July, Twitter went through a major redesign for its desktop version. And back in August, the firm started adding code to its website that would allow users to search through people and groups in their direct messages. In the same month, the firm also made it public via a tweet that it was working on building a filter that would extract potentially offensive messages from people who do not follow you. Today, the California giant announced via a tweet that the filter has passed its testing phase and is now rolling out to people across all major platforms, that is, Android, iOS, and web. We tested, and turns out filters help you cut through the noise to find gems. Who knew. So we’re rolling out this filter to everyone on iOS, Android, and web! — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 30, 2019 Here's how it works. The filter adds an additional view to the direct message (DM) requests in the inbox. Nested inside the "message requests" option is a category that will contain "additional messages" which will house those messages that have been flagged as offensive. From there, the recipient can either choose to delete the messages without ever opening them. People have complained about discomforting DM requests in the past. Most recently, a team of developers was working on removing unsolicited penis pictures received on the site. With that in mind, the new filter should be a welcome addition to Twitter.

Hi! I have a query regarding MS Excel. I have the 2016 version. So I have this really large data with four columns. Name, cell number, gender and email. What I want to do is filter out any cell number that was used more than once from my data. I don't just want to remove duplicates, I just want to consider cell numbers that were only used once in the entire sheet. There are some cell numbers being used multiple times that I don't want to consider. Can anyone please tell me how I can do that?

FaceApp goes beyond gender and age with new race-changing filters by Timi Cantisano While it used to be that a simple Gingham or Lark filter would be enough, now, users are getting even more with facial recognition filters from the likes of Snapchat, Instagram, and others. FaceApp made waves when it was first released, allowing users to change their gender, age, or even add a smile to their photos. It appears that the firm is taking things a step further, by introducing filters that will change one's ethnicity. As reported by Mic on Wednesday morning, FaceApp now has a new set of filters titled Asian, Black, Caucasian, and Indian. You can see in the image above how this filter works. Mic reached out to the CEO and creator of FaceApp, Yaroslav Goncharov and received this response: “The ethnicity change filters have been designed to be equal in all aspects. They don’t have any positive or negative connotations associated with them. They are even represented by the same icon. In addition to that, the list of those filters is shuffled for every photo, so each user sees them in a different order.” Some users have reacted to the new filters with disappointment and displeasure. Recent reviews for the app in the Google Play Store have included comments referring to the latest update as "racist" and "not okay". Source: Mic via The Verge | Image via The Verge

More and more Internet connections are being filtered, from public Wi-Fi and workplace connection filtering to ISP and country-level censorship. However, there are still ways to get around this filtering and view blocked websites. Some of these methods may be restricted by harsh filtering. For example, the Great Firewall of China is now interfering with outgoing VPN connections, although VPNs were left alone for years. DNS Server Tor VPN Proxy SSH Tunnel Source Also compiled some links: When Is a Tor Block Not a Tor Block? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/when-tor-block-not-tor-block Tor Instruction: https://www.torproject.org/docs/running-a-mirror.html.en Tor Mirrors: https://s.eff.org/tor-mirror https://tor.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de https://tor.myrl.net https://www.tor.lu https://tor.crazyhaze.de Youtube DNS bypass on mobile devices: 3G/4G mobile APN proxy will be changed to proxy localhost:port 8118 Configure a Proxy Server with 3G or 4G Data Connection on Android: http://techverse.net/how-to-setup-proxy-server-3g-4g-data-connection-android-phone

So I have a 1999 Dodge Dakota Sport, and the people who owned it before me had rigged up one of those "performance" air filters with an aluminum pipe. I replaced the air filter today because the old one had a hole gouged in it. Well, it worked fine, except there's nothing supporting the filter except the pipe, which, over time, rotates in the collar that holds it onto the air intake until the air filter rests on a little plastic wire plug that's attached to the body, and the old one had a hold gouged in it, I'm guessing from bouncing up and down on that little connector for miles and miles. Could somebody offer me some suggestions as to how I could go about supporting the pipe so it doesn't let the filter fall down and rub on stuff? Here's some photos to show what I'm talking about. Here's a top down photo of the whole thing after installing the new filter This is looking down by what, in the first photo, would have been the back of the air filter, the side facing toward the cab. The wiring connector that the old air filter eventually settled down on top of, and what I suspect rubbed the hole in it.

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We plan on moving to a full content filtering solution at the end of the school year, but would like to finish out the year using what we have, or pushing external traffic through a separate filter. Our current solution is an 8e6 R3000. They are recommending buying another appliance and using it with a virtual appliance for mobile devices. I'm fine with that, but getting runaround on pricing and information. At previous school, we had CIPAFilter and could redirect to our in-house filter by using DNS settings on the mobile devices. I'm not sure to do with our current solution, if it's even possible. I don't mind setting up another box, but redirecting traffic and making everything work, I'm not familiar with. I'm looking at OpenDNS which has a new service out specifically for mobile devices, but waiting on pricing. Just wonder if anyone could help to shed some light on how to make this work. We don't NEED authentication to AD, but it would be nice.

I'm bombarded with spam emails that go to my work email address. IT has a spam filter set up on the Exchange server, but it really just doesn't work very well at all. I asked IT if there was anyway to have email messages that are all eastern characters filtered out, but for some reason there was no way. It has gotten so bad that I've had to completely disable my work email on my phone because it was too intrusive getting 10 spam emails an hour. Especially if my work laptop was off and Outlook's additional Junk Email filter wasn't grabbing some of those for me before they hit my phone. The Junk Email filter still lets quite a few messages through. Can someone please point me to a recommended addon or product that would filter my client side email in Outlook better? Or maybe I can setup my Junk Email settings to be stronger? It seems like I keep receiving the same types of emails, so something that was adaptive might work better. Thanks