Hack The Box Walkthrough: Oopsie
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 ...
Author Archives: Bob McKay
Install & Configure OpenVPN for Trust.Zone VPN on 4K Amazon Fire TV Stick
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 T ...
Caesar Cipher Wheel Printable PDF
UPDATED: 24th July 2021, I updated the design to fix the inner/outer ring label, to tweak the sizing and to add paper tabs to the outer ring that can hold the inner ring for those that don’t hav ...
HackTheBox VPN Internet Not Working (AKA Enable Split Tunneling on HTB VPN)
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 ...
Redirect Loop on SiteGround Hosting when using CloudFlare
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 Develo ...
Outlook 365 Message Blank or Text Not Showing Correctly
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 f ...
Laravel 8: Unknown column ‘uuid’ on failed_jobs table
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 lo ...
Splatoon 2 Abilities Cheatsheet (Printable PDF)
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 k ...
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 ...
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 ...