Today I upgraded to Photoshop 2022 (specifically version 23.0.0 20211013.r.36 623993d x64) and when I launched it, was greeted with the fairly unhelpful message “Your graphics processor is incompatible”: It turns out that the most recent up date to Photoshop has introduced a bug for laptop users that are ru ...
So I treated myself to some more Hak5 kit (having previously only had the Rubber Ducky), the new devices come with access to a free Command and Control platform – called Cloud C2 – that can be run on Android, Linux or Windows. For experimental purposes, running this on a local device (such as a ) is fine b ...
I’ve created an updated version of my original Raspberry Pi 3 Honey Pot tutorial after I discovered it does work with newer versions of the Linux operating systems. After banging my ahead against a lot of combinations of OS versions, configurations, depedancy issues and configuration issues, I finally got a simpl ...
I noticed intermittent frustrating behaviour with my shiny new (awesome laptop by the way) when using it with my . If I didn’t move the mouse for 5 seconds (even if I was typing and so the laptop didn’t power save), the mouse would freeze and take a couple of seconds to wake-up. Not the worst issue in the ...
I’ve returned to HTB recently after a lack of ethical hacking and decided to dip my toe in the water with their “Starting Point” series of challenges. I thought I’d do a write up of Oopsie to cement the knowledge in my head and to provide a really simply walkthrough for newbies (as even the PDF ...
I use Trust.Zone when I want to VPN in to various other countries and wanted to add this functionality to my Fire TV Stick so that when I’m travelling, I can take it with me and still watch UK TV. Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble with the Trust.Zone VPN application on an Amazon – to be fair I have to ...
A common frustration for Kali Linux users when they create a VPN connection to Hack The Box is that often, Internet access disappears like a fart in the wind. It’s often more of a nuisance than anything but some of the challenges have web applications that tried and load internet based resources (such as font fi ...
I recently had a problem with the PhishDom website where the homepage was stuck in a loop showing a plan screen and the favicon on the tab just blinking like this: When I popped open the Chrome Developer Tools and had a look at the network traffic, I could see something called /well-known/captcha/ initiating a redirect ...
Jump to workarounds at the bottom Tonight my wife asked me to take a look at her Outlook client as it was “being weird” with all her email messages either showing as blank or flashing up for a moment and then disappearing. We knew the emails were fine because they displayed ok on the mobile client and on O ...
I recently upgraded a project of mine to Laravel 8 (from Laravel 7). Everything seemed to go really well with just a few snags here and there. I then noticed however a number of errors were getting logged when the system tried to record failed jobs. I turned out that Laravel 8 introduces an additional column in to the ...
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