Installing Dropbox on Kali Linux 2021
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 ...
Author Archives: Bob McKay
Solved: Dell Mouse Freezes After Seconds of Inactivity
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 t ...
Creating a Security Honey Pot with Thinkst Canary & a Raspberry Pi
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 soft ...
Using OpenVAS on Kali Linux 2020
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 c ...
Solved: Dell Wi-fi 6 AX201 Device Cannot Start
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 th ...
Outlook’s Simple Missing InfoSec Feature
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 star ...
Delete the OneDrive – Personal folder from Windows Explorer
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 do ...
Substitution Cipher Decoding Utility
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 a ...
Solved: PC or Mouse freeze on Windows 10 with DCom DistributedCOM Error (Event ID 10016)
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 ...
Solution: Disable AutoSave for Excel, Word or PowerPoint (Office 365) Permanently
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, A ...