With more and more people working from home, we find ourselves in on Teams conference calls in some strange settings (I work in my loft!) which can be distracting to say the least. Earlier in the year Microsoft helped mitigate this while adding an element of fund to Teams calls with the introduction of background effec ...
UPDATE: June 2020 Please note that if you can paste in to the search bar using the shortcut CTRL + V and not right click, the chances are you are simply on the newer version of Outlook and at present this is expected behavior from Microsoft. The fix below was written for a different issue where some users could not pa ...
As part of home improvements I was on the lookout for a video doorbell to use on the outside gates of my home, I had a few pre-requisites: It needed to be powered by POE, no batteries to replace It should be weatherproof and tough I didn’t want to have to pay a monthly subscription to use it (a la Ring doorbells) ...
As part of my ongoing project to retrofit our old stone house with a fast, multi-purpose network, I purchased a for the primary purpose of providing a destination for my IP cameras to record to via the excellent free Surveillance Station add-on. Once I started tinkering without however, I realised how powerful the Syno ...
UPDATE 30 Dec 2019: After visiting family and finding they had the same issue with random characters in the save dialog box, I realised the only common software we had on our systems other than the Windows 10 operating system was Sophos Home Premium. I dug around the settings a little bit and found an option which sol ...
So you want to tinker with Kali Linux huh? This aims to be a (very) brief quick start guide and it assumes you have installed Kali on a machine, on a bootable kali USB drive or in a virtual environment. Note: As Kali Linux is a web established security tool, . Logging in You can login to Kali Linux using the default c ...
I thought I’d write a quick update guide on installing Kali Linux from USB as I’m hoping to encourage more friends to install an instance and start playing. This guide assumes you’re using a Windows computer to prepare the bootable USB drive and you already have a 4GB drive (or greater) ready to forma ...
UPDATED 25th Sept 2019 Updated due to changes in the Office 365 admin section Microsoft implemented DKIM signing for outbound emails early in 2015 but the implementation was still a little clunky, requiring knowledge of the DKIM DNS formatting and the liberal application PowerShell commands. Fortunately, they have impr ...
IMPORTANT NOTE: At the time of writing, Metasploitable 2 has no synthetic drivers for Hyper-V and so cannot communicate with the server via a virtual switch, even using the drives from the Linux Integration Services (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55106) In preparation for some ethical hacking ...
There’s a slight stir in the media of late about a vulnerability discovered in the Remote Desktop Services service on Microsoft Windows systems. It’s CVE reference is CVE-2019-0708 but is being commonly being referred to as ‘BlueKeep’. Unusually the media seems to be giving this little coverage ...
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