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 ...
Updated in 2019 after testing on Windows 10 I recently upgraded my desktop’s hard drive to one of the amazing for the performance gains it brings but due to my limited budget, the size I bought wasn’t much bigger than the space I needed. A huge part of my storage needs are my Dropbox folder (I have a 185GB ...
While I would never recommend running WordPress on a Windows box unless you have to (having done this for several years and the performance was just never on par with a Linux equivalent), if you must then you may encounter permission issues kicking up errors like these: Destination directory for file streaming does not ...
As I’ve done previously when writing articles about exploits and/or vulnerabilities I’ve had to design a logo as I couldn’t find a royalty free version to use for myself. As before, I decided to make the logo artwork available to anyone that wants it in a variety of formats, there are vectored formats ...
I recently purchased a phone for my eldest, making the decision to stick with Android for the Google Family Link platform which allows me to lock down the device and monitor where it is (for safety and in case of loss). I’ve used the Google Family Link platform for about 9 months now to manage my kids tablets and ...
When plugging in my Samsung Galaxy A5 I occasionally get the following message: Moisture has been detected. To charge your device, make sure your charger/USB port is dry. There’s a fair few suggested fixed for this out there, including the following neither of which I have any faith in: Clean out the USB-C port a ...
I recently decided to add a trusted SSL certificate to my from a Certificate Authority (CA) so that Synology Apps such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick version of the DS-Video app can connect to my Synology securely. Unfortunately my initial attempts to use Let’s Encrypt for the SSL certificate failed as it appears th ...
UPDATE: 25th February 2019 Despite the DS-Video app now being available in the Amazon Fire TV App store, I have updated this because it seems that the Fire TV version of the apps has problems with SSL certificates (even ones issued by a 3rd party certificate authority). There’s been a few changes to the location ...
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. Alas, security researchers at Rapid7 recently found evidence of ‘s discovery port being used as part of an amplifi ...
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