Archive for 2022

Security Report Card

7th March 2022

Backups: Automated backups & tested +1, offsite +1, encrypted +1 versioned controlled OR immutable +1, our data in cloud services is also backed up +2 Hardware: support contract OR spare…

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Time to Upgrade your Samsung S9 or older

2nd March 2022

Samsung has made a boo-boo in their secure enclave that stores encryption certificates. Samsung has promised a fix for S10 and newer phones. very dry details here

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Home Assistant on ESXi

1st March 2022

Home Assistant is some powerful automation software that integrates with a lot of IoT devices. The .vmdk that is made available on their website is created using VmWare Workstation, which…

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LetsEncrypt and Firewalls

22nd February 2022

You may want to create some firewall rules to allow only LetsEncrypt to get to your port 80or if you live in a country other than the US, you may…

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RdWeb Can’t Manage Published Apps

18th February 2022

If you are in the process of adding RdWeb servers or if you rename a server you may get an error like the one shown below and not be able…

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Tailscale and Kali Linux

16th February 2022

the Tailscale webpage has included ALMOST all the info after installing according to the tailscale website sudo systemctl start tailscaled tailscale up to authenticate visit https://login.tailscale.com/a/somerandomchars don’t forget to use…

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Ubiquiti Cloudkey in Rackmount displays “No Ethernet Connection”

8th February 2022

This problem is with the smaller, non-pro version of the Unifi CloudKey when mounted in a rackmount. The font display has the message “No Ethernet Connection” The rackmount has a…

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My Outlook 2010 / Office 2010 has stopped working

4th February 2022

Microsoft said in Nov2021 that they were going to phase out Office 2010. It doesn’t support modern encryption protocols or OAuth. Looks like M$ is getting around to kicking ev1…

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Canadian backups

1st February 2022

Sync.com is a Canadian company, and in compliance with Canadian PIPEDA laws. The Pro version of Sync.com offers an UNLIMITED storage space for $15/month Sync.com also offers Vault, files moved…

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Ubiquiti won’t connect to Cloud

28th January 2022

Logon to the Ubiquiti Cloudkey using it’s local IP address, usually shown on the tiny OLED front displayturn connect to cloud off, wait 5 minutes and turn it back on…

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