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Silence of the Lambdas: The trial and tribulations of working with AWS Lambda

I’m developing a Laravel application that uses the AWS Lambda service for heavy lifting Python functions whose usage is very lumpy and unpredictable sometimes every few minutes, sometimes every few weeks. Wow – that’s sounds like a perfect Lambda case study right?  Well I thought so but due to weird, ...
Bob McKay 3394 views 436 likes Oct 6, 2023 Cloud & SASS, Laravel, Python Share
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HP Smart requires sign-in to scan – GDPR anyone?

HP Smart requires sign-in to scan – GDPR anyone?

As many users have discovered, HP made a change to the HP Smart multifunction printer utility in 2020 that means – all of sudden and with no option to decline, you need to create a HP.com account and sign in with it on the app to be able to scan using your own scanner.   You know, the you one you own and bought w ...
Bob McKay 7692 views 517 likes Oct 11, 2022 Hardware, IT Support & Networking, Software, Tech & Gadgets, Windows Share
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Using the DigiSpark DigiKeyboard.h library with UK keyboards

Using the DigiSpark DigiKeyboard.h library with UK keyboards

UPDATE: This post is now defunct because I created an updated version of the DigiKeyboard package for UK keyboards available here: https://github.com/p0ep0e/DigiKeyboardUK So I recently delved in to the world of [easyazon_link keywords=”DigiSpark Attiny85″ locale=”US” tag=”bobmckay-20̸ ...
Bob McKay 13576 views 190 likes Sep 11, 2022 IT Support & Networking Share
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Ninja Ducky Toolkit – cheap and secure data exfiltration via USB implants

Ninja Ducky Toolkit – cheap and secure data exfiltration via USB implants

The Ninja Ducky Toolkit is a set of basic scripts for setting up a means to exfiltrate data via USB keyboard implant devices (like the awesome and original Rubber Ducky from Hak5). You can retrieve the current toolkit from the GitHub repository here, the rest of this article is dedicated to explaining the how and the w ...
Bob McKay 4897 views 100 likes Aug 26, 2022 Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking, IT Support & Networking, PHP, Security Share
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Hak5 KeyCroc problems connecting to Cloud C2 when https is used

Hak5 KeyCroc problems connecting to Cloud C2 when https is used

After deploying the new HAK5 C2 Cloud instance on AWS LightSail (tutorial here), I found that my [easyazon_link keywords=”HAK5 KeyCroc” locale=”US” tag=”bobmckay-20″]HAK5 KeyCrocs[/easyazon_link] wouldn’t connect if I had https enabled on my C2 instance.  I didn’t feel co ...
Bob McKay 5739 views 69 likes Jul 18, 2022 Ethical Hacking, Hardware, Security Share
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Deploy Hak5 Cloud C2 on AWS LightSail (2022)

Deploy Hak5 Cloud C2 on AWS LightSail (2022)

Last year I wrote on article on deploying the C2 application on AWS LightSail, as a number of things have changed since then, including an updated version of the application, I thought I’d update the tutorial. Update, if you are using [easyazon_link keywords=”HAK5 KeyCroc” locale=”US” tag= ...
Bob McKay 7962 views 42 likes Jul 16, 2022 Cloud & SASS, Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking, Hosting Share
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Ultimate Rubber Ducky Scripts

Ultimate Rubber Ducky Scripts

When playing around with [easyazon_link keywords=”HAK5 Rubber Ducky” locale=”US” tag=”bobmckay-20″]Rubber Ducky[/easyazon_link] scripts for use in cyber security consultations or pen tests, I discovered there’s A LOT of data exfiltration scripts out there but I have some fundam ...
Bob McKay 11204 views 24 likes Jul 3, 2022 IT Support & Networking Share
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PowerPoint: Automatically move to next slide after animation ends

PowerPoint: Automatically move to next slide after animation ends

As a basic presentation tool, PowerPoint is great and used correctly, the animation features can create some decent flows but I’ve always been frustrated by the fact that you cannot set individual slides to get to the end of their animations and automatically move to the next slide. There’s a bunch of sugge ...
Bob McKay 76414 views 17 likes Jun 24, 2022 IT Support & Networking Share
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SOLVED: Slow upload/upstream for one device (Windows 10)

SOLVED: Slow upload/upstream for one device (Windows 10)

I recently had a very frustrating issue where my laptop was struggling to upload anything to anywhere (OneDrive, photo uploads, etc.) were appalling but other than that, everything was running fine. First things first, I performed a speed test on my device (one via Google, one via Ookla): Both tools showed a consistent ...
Bob McKay 8096 views 22 likes May 29, 2022 IT Support & Networking, Windows Share
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Problems with Microsoft 365’s (O365) DKIM Setup and Configuration

Problems with Microsoft 365’s (O365) DKIM Setup and Configuration

It seems that in the recent shift-around’s that Microsoft have done of the Office 365 / Microsoft 365 platform, they’ve really screwed up a number of things (see my last post about probems with the Information Protection functionality).  The latest one seems to be with DKIM setup for your domain names ̵ ...
Bob McKay 13318 views 16 likes May 2, 2022 Business, Cloud & SASS, IT Support & Networking, Office 365 Share
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