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 ...
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 models are affected: Cisco Small Business RV320 and the Cisco Small Business RV325. Ironically Cisco promote these on th ...
As the cyber security journey continues, I’ve been inevitably caught in the net of ISO 27001. As one of the most globally accepted frameworks for information security, its inevitable that those working in cyber security will end up working with it, in it or on it. I’ve put this together as a simple guide ai ...
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 so you can insert it and try again I recommend following the instructions here, specifically using the Rufus DD image mo ...
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 wanted to share. For those that know me, I’ve been disappearing further down the cyber security rabbit-hole and a ...
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 my and my Azure Cloud. The following tutorial shows the steps that worked for me. First off, versions and assumpti ...
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 DEB version from the Linux tab and click Download On the downloads page, Splunk have very thoughtfully provided the wget ...
