As part of home improvements I was on the lookout for a video doorbell to use on the outside gates of my home, I had a few pre-requisites: It needed to be powered by POE, no batteries to replace It should be weatherproof and tough I didn’t want to have to pay a monthly subscription to use it (a la Ring doorbells) ...
I recently started being unable to paste in to the search box in Outlook using the copy/paste shortcut – a feature I used all the time. Initially I thought it was just a glitch specific to my machine but then I found it was occuring on all 3 of my machines. Fortunately after a bit of digging, there is a very sim ...
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 ...
Somewhere along the way in delving in to cyber security, I’ve also gained an interest in encryption. While this might seem obvious, I’m more interested in the classical cryptography such as substitution ciphers, transposition ciphers and the Vigenère Cipher. For anyone with an interest in cryptopgraphy, I h ...
As part of my ongoing project to retrofit our old stone house with a fast, multi-purpose network, I purchased a for the primary purpose of providing a destination for my IP cameras to record to via the excellent free Surveillance Station add-on. Once I started tinkering without however, I realised how powerful the Syno ...
UPDATE 30 Dec 2019: After visiting family and finding they had the same issue with random characters in the save dialog box, I realised the only common software we had on our systems other than the Windows 10 operating system was Sophos Home Premium. I dug around the settings a little bit and found an option which sol ...
To give this review some context, I thought I ought to explain my goals when reviewing/comparing the streaming services Tidal, Spotify and Amazon Music. Firstly, I love to listen to music – just about anything goes in my opinion and I do so at work, in the car and at home. At home I have multiple smart home dev ...
Apps are continuing to redefine the way we interact with our mobile devices, and new and innovative revolutionising services seem to pop up every year, like novel tracking apps from Google (when they actually work as advertised). These innovations permeate every industry and are changing not only consumer demand but pr ...
So you want to tinker with Kali Linux huh? This aims to be a (very) brief quick start guide and it assumes you have installed Kali on a machine, on a bootable kali USB drive or in a virtual environment. Note: As Kali Linux is a web established security tool, . Logging in You can login to Kali Linux using the default c ...
IMPORTANT NOTE: At the time of writing, Metasploitable 2 has no synthetic drivers for Hyper-V and so cannot communicate with the server via a virtual switch, even using the drives from the Linux Integration Services (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55106) In preparation for some ethical hacking ...
