Ubiquiti Discovery Port Open by Default
Its with a (slightly) heavy heart I write this as I’m a fan boy of ‘s networking gear. For those that don’t know, put business-class networking firmly in the consumer price bracket. ...
Category Archives: IT Support & Networking
Cisco Router Vulnerability
Cisco announced patches last week for a vulnerabilities in two of their routers that are rated High and scored over 7 each on the CVSS. Which devices are affected? At present it appears that only two ...
Hard to Find Service Manuals
Sometimes it’s difficult to find specific service manuals for devices so I decided to pull together an archive page to store the ones I want to keep on in case they are useful for others: Dell I ...
Solved: Kali Linux Install Says Your installation CD-ROM couldn’t be mounted.
If you receive the following error message when install Kali Linux from a USB drive: Your installation CD-ROM couldn’t be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. If ...
The Sophos Shake Up
It’s not often I do a write up about a vendor rather than a specific piece of software or kit but my recent experiences with Sophos (both personally and at work) have made a lasting impression I ...
Connecting Ubiquiti Unifi USG to Azure via VPN
As a self confessed Ubiquiti fanboy that wants to learn the Microsoft Azure platform (just well, because), it made sense to attempt to create a Site-to-Site (AKA Site-to-Cloud) VPN connection between ...
Install Splunk on Ubuntu Server via CLI (Command Line)
To install Splunk on an Ubuntu server via Command Line, go through the following steps: Visit the Splunk Downloads page: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html Select the ...
Solved: Windows 10 Bluetooth Headphones Jittery & Interrupting Music Playback
So I’ve had lots of Windows 10 issues on multiple laptop when trying to play music via Bluetooth headphones or earpieces recently. My headphones would cut out at seemingly random times and also ...
Following the Phisher
A company known to me, let’s call them AcmeIndustry.co.uk, was recently targeted by persistent spear-phishing attacks. Emails we’re being sent to staff which appeared to be from other memb ...
Running Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on a Raspberry Pi
UPDATE: 25th Sept 2017 As per my previous article, I’ve now deployed a network at home and its working wonderfully, the speeds are good and already wireless roaming work pretty well. I decided h ...