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 ...
So myself and the kids are addicted to Splatoon 2 at the moment but don’t really know what all of the abiltiies (power ups) do, so I decided to try and find a cheatsheet we could print off and keep next to the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately all of the cheatsheets I could find were on solid black backgrounds and s ...
UPDATED Jan 2021: A few tweaks required for Kali 2020.4 distribution I’ve always found installing Dropbox on Kali linux a bit hit-and-miss but the more recent distributions of Kali linux seem to handle it a bit better so I thought I’d write a quite guide now its become a more predictable process. Prerequisi ...
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 ...
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 ...
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