I recently got a which I love and I paired it with a basic . Unfortunately, an issue that seems to come and go is the mouse freezing when it isn’t used for over 5 seconds. This is long enough that it appears to be an intermittent issues with the mouse but is actually completely repeatable (just hold the mouse st ...
I always liked the idea of a cost-effective honey pot that could be dropped on to a physical network with the minimum of fuss. As is cost-effective host which, combined with a and the OpenCanary software, makes a great little drop-in. Prepare the SD card Donwload and run the Raspberry PI Imager software available here ...
I’ve always found installing Dropbox on Kali linux a bit hit-and-miss but the more recent distributions of Kali linux seem to be a bit more stable so I thought I’d write a quite guide now its become a more predictable process. Prerequisites Ok so there’s a few things to know first: Get a second Dropbo ...
After a few months off, I decided to update my Kali laptop today and return to some ethical hacking shenanigans and also to see if the frustrating bug present in OpenVas 8 was still there (where you couldn’t specify a range as a target either in the GUI or Command Line). After a few round of updates and clean up, ...
I recently got a at home and was so impressed with it, when I needed a new one for work, I asked for the same model (though a lower spec). When it arrived, everything was as expected except for one thing: there were no wifi networks visible. When I dug in, it became apparent this is because there were no functioning n ...
As we all know, one of the biggest threats/risks to an organisations security are its users – every presentation you see has the ‘surprising’ statistic of just how many breaches start with – or are entirely caused by – actions by a user. Building on this, one of the most common causes of a ...
When I deploy OneDrive for Business on Windows 10 PCs, for some reason I’ve never understood, Windows 10 continues to show a OneDrive – Personal folder in Windows Explorer even though I don’t have one setup, for example: This is confusing and a little annoying, taking up valuable space in the left Qui ...
I recently purchased two new with distinctly different base systems (one is an and the other an ) yet I’ve been seeing some odd behavior from both whereby the mouse cursor freezes or disappears and the system becomes unresponsive for a moment. I saw lots of posts around changing registry permissions but this did ...
So you want to disable AutoSave on your Office applications huh? Yep I don’t blame you, while I love the version control that comes from using SharePoint, OneDrive and the Office 365 platform, AutoSave drives me absolutely crazy and to my mind is a poor implementation of what could be great. Opening files to read ...
With more and more people working from home, we find ourselves in on Teams conference calls in some strange settings (I work in my loft!) which can be distracting to say the least. Earlier in the year Microsoft helped mitigate this while adding an element of fund to Teams calls with the introduction of background effec ...
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