Thanks to everyone who attended our tech chat today with Stetson, Lewis & Jason! It was great to see all of your cyber security questions coming in – sorry if we missed you! I hope it gave some valuable insight into the cyber security space in the near future, including your most vulnerable ‘Layer 8‘! We will definitely be doing …
Thank you to everyone who attended our Machine Level Automation Event last Wednesday! Special thanks to N-able Head Nerds, Jason Murphy and Marc-Andre Tanguay for their time on this! Did you miss the event? No problem – watch back the Livestream here! Extra Resources Want to check out the automation scripts used in the Livestream? Click here to download them! …
Most of us have used a VPN for one reason or another. More recently, due to a heightened increase in “work from home” initiatives, companies have taken advantage of VPNs to keep employees ‘inside’ their networks, virtually. Not to mention the huge take up in VPN subscriptions for private use in recent years. For the most part, OpenVPN is the …
It has been reported that Ubiquiti have suffered a substantial breach of their systems. On the 11th January, Ubiquiti reported that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider exposed customer account credentials. A source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti massively downplayed a “catastrophic” incident to minimize the hit to its stock price, and that the …
Attackers managed to implement a backdoor in PHP’s official Git repo. Two commits were made on Sunday 28th March 2021 which were apparent “minor adjustments”, however, enabled the ability to preform remote code execution on any server running PHP. This was shortly discovered by PHP users. Nikita Popov issued a statement, claiming “We don’t yet know howexactly this happened, but …
On the 21st January 2021, Raspberry Pi released their Raspberry Pi Pico Microcontroller. It’s built on the new RP2040 chip developed by Raspberry Pi themselves! It’s programmable with both C/C++ and MicroPython, packing quite the punch with a dual-core ARM Cortex-M0+ processor. Raspberry Pi (2021) So… what can I use it for? Whatever your heart desires! The Pico allows for …
Job interviews are one of the many life processes that we all get a bit anxious about, no matter how experienced you are. However, we all know that respecting someone is just a basic level of human decency and shouldn’t depend on who that person is, “treat someone how you want to be treated” is a phrase everyone has heard …
So you’re new to This is an IT Support Group… This is a primer for Facebook users who have just joined our Facebook group. WTF Is an IT Support Group? I often hear the following: “Is it like…a group for getting IT Support or a group for IT professionals to get support?” The answer is yes, both. Our group started …
… a what now? Pwagotchi is essentially an A2C-based AI, powered by bettercap. The project runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. So, what does it do? Great question! Pwnagotchi learns from surrounding WiFi environments in order to maximise the crackable WPA key material that it captures. There’s two methods that it uses to do this: Passive Sniffing Deauthentication and …
A High Level Guide to Ransomware OooooOooooOOoo, scary. Ransomware. You’ve heard about it, right? It’s in the name. “Ransom.” Indicating that something is being held hostage. But what? Your data. The answer is revealed below. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts data with an attached threat of perpetually blocking access or revealing secrets unless a ransom is paid. …