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Redirect Loop on SiteGround Hosting when using CloudFlare

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 Developer Tools and had a look at the network traffic, I could see something called /well-known/captcha/ initiating a redirect ...
Bob McKay 2577 views 16 likes Jul 2, 2021 Hosting, PHP, WordPress Share
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Outlook 365 Message Blank or Text Not Showing Correctly

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 for a moment and then disappearing.  We knew the emails were fine because they displayed ok on the mobile client and on O ...
Bob McKay 2147 views 17 likes May 11, 2021 IT Support & Networking, Outlook, Windows Share
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Laravel 8: Unknown column ‘uuid’ on failed_jobs table

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 logged when the system tried to record failed jobs. I turned out that Laravel 8 introduces an additional column in to the ...
Bob McKay 7830 views 29 likes Feb 20, 2021 Laravel Share
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Splatoon 2 Abilities Cheatsheet (Printable PDF)

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 keep next to the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately all of the cheatsheets I could find were on solid black backgrounds and s ...
Bob McKay 1467 views 6 likes Feb 20, 2021 Software Share
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Installing Dropbox on Kali Linux 2021

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 handle it a bit better so I thought I’d write a quite guide now its become a more predictable process. Prerequisi ...
Bob McKay 9737 views 24 likes Jan 5, 2021 Business, CISSP, Ethical Hacking, IT Support & Networking, Security Share
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Solved: Dell Mouse Freezes After Seconds of Inactivity

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 that it appears to be an intermittent issues with the mouse but is actually completely repeatable (just hold the mouse st ...
Bob McKay 4242 views 13 likes Oct 12, 2020 Hardware, IT Support & Networking, Windows Share
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Creating a Security Honey Pot with Thinkst Canary & a Raspberry Pi

Creating a Security Honey Pot with Thinkst Canary & a Raspberry Pi

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 ...
Bob McKay 6503 views 11 likes Sep 20, 2020 Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking, IT Support & Networking, Tech & Gadgets Share
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Using OpenVAS on Kali Linux 2020

Using OpenVAS on Kali Linux 2020

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, ...
Bob McKay 3859 views 17 likes Sep 7, 2020 Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking, Security Share
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Solved: Dell Wi-fi 6 AX201 Device Cannot Start

Solved: Dell Wi-fi 6 AX201 Device Cannot Start

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 ...
Bob McKay 8621 views 17 likes Sep 6, 2020 Hardware, IT Support & Networking Share
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Outlook’s Simple Missing InfoSec Feature

Outlook’s Simple Missing InfoSec Feature

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 ...
Bob McKay 3131 views 23 likes Jun 16, 2020 Cyber Security, Office 365, Outlook, Security, Software, Windows Share
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