I've had an issue with my site that prevented it from working fully over https - and as it turns out, it's due to CloudFlare's reverse proxy and the way it deals with http and https requests. I found the...
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Zero-day exploit against macOS Keychain
This is pretty serious - a researcher has discovered a zero-day exploit against the Keychain in macOS. As a protest against Apple not paying a bug bounty for macOS (only for iOS), Linus Henze, the researcher, has withheld details of...
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What to do if you can’t remember the password for your iPhone backup in iTunes
I've encountered a few cases where a client has forgotten the password for the iTunes backup they've made for their iPhone, and the password was either set up on another Mac, or not stored in the Keychain. With encrypted iTunes...
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Widespread outage on Office 365 – 30 Jan 2019
Microsoft have widespread outage on the Office 365 login/authentication servers this morning and it's affecting multiple tenancies. The official report from the Microsoft 365 Service health status page says: "Current status: We've identified a network issue that is affecting authentication to...
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Apple Releases macOS 10.14.3 and iOS 12.1.3
Apple today pushed software updates for a range of its devices. They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no new features. iOS has been updated to 12.1.3 and it fixes a...
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Microsoft Office 365 Price Increase in Australia
From 1st Jan 2019, Microsoft are increasing the pricing of Office 365 subscriptions by up to 8% in order to bring them in-line with pricing in other regions. The last price adjustment for Office 365 was more than 3 years...
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Distance to 3rd Party DNS Resolvers from Telstra nbn in Melbourne
Further to my previous post, DNS Speed Testing on Telstra nbn in Melbourne, I've used the Traceroute command to measure how far away (or how many hops away) the fastest DNS servers are. Of course, my router's DNS server is...
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DNS Speed Testing on Telstra nbn in Melbourne
I've recently seen a number of people recommending that I use various 3rd party DNS resolvers - CloudFlare, OpenDNS etc. One problem I've encountered with using some of these DNS servers is that they're set up for the North American...
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Xero not loading in Safari in Mojave
This is here just so I can remember what I did later when I need to undo it. I've got a problem where Xero is simply not loading in Safari 12 on macOS Mojave. After I've logged in at login.xero.com,...
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How to take a screenshot on your Mac
This is new to me, as it's a new feature in macOS Mojave. On older systems, to capture a screenshot, you can use Shift+Cmd+4 and either select a rectangular region of the screen, or tap Space Bar and then click...
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