Monthly Archives: February 2017

WordPress Used as Command and Control Server in 2016 Election Hack

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If you have any interest on the analysis done about the U.S. Election hack in 2016, this is a very good report and one that lays out the facts.  If you do read this report, make sure you also read Wordfence's detailed analysis of the data. WordPress Used as Command and Control Server in 2016 Hack And the Wordfence analysis: Wordfence 2016 U.S. Election Hack Anaylsis...

Cannot Delete a Storage Pool Because it is Read Only

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One of the great things about later versions of Windows is the addition of Storage Pools.  I use them almost exclusively now instead of hardware RAID.  In so doing, I tend to 'play' often and reuse hard drives from different pools and inevitably, run into this error as the hard drive will report that it is still a part of a now defunct storage pool.  There are times when I go to delete or erase a disk and I get the following error "Error deleting virtual disk: The storage pool could not complete the operation because its configuration is read-only".  This is rather easy to fix with PowerShell commands. From the PowerShell prompt, type in PS C:\>Get-StoragePool to retrieve a list of all storage pools. Make note of the 'FriendlyName' of the Pool that you need to work...
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