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 keep next to the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately all of the cheatsheets I could find were on solid black backgrounds and s ...
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 handle it a bit better so I thought I’d write a quite guide now its become a more predictable process. Prerequisi ...
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 that it appears to be an intermittent issues with the mouse but is actually completely repeatable (just hold the mouse st ...
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 software, makes a great little drop-in. Prepare the SD card Donwload and run the Raspberry PI Imager software available here ...
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 couldn’t specify a range as a target either in the GUI or Command Line). After a few round of updates and clean up, ...
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 thing: there were no wifi networks visible. When I dug in, it became apparent this is because there were no functioning n ...
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 start with – or are entirely caused by – actions by a user. Building on this, one of the most common causes of a ...
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 don’t have one setup, for example: This is confusing and a little annoying, taking up valuable space in the left Qui ...
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 and the system becomes unresponsive for a moment. I saw lots of posts around changing registry permissions but this did ...
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, AutoSave drives me absolutely crazy and to my mind is a poor implementation of what could be great. Opening files to read ...
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