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2022 Open IT Salary Report

Another year, another Salary Report! Our 2022 Open IT Salary Report has landed! We've had the biggest response ever, yet again, with over 1,000 responses! 🤯 We hope you get some great use out of this data, whether that's asking your boss for that pay rise that you deserve, or

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 13 April 2022

Your Weekly IT Roundup 13 April 2022Hey, it's here! Welcome to your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on the latest IT news and content from This is an IT Support Group! Suggestions? Comments? Email us back! (Please email us, we are really lonely - seriously just

Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse' - Delusion or Revolution?

I'm sure everyone's heard by now about Zuckerberg's newest gimmick in the works, the so-called ✨Metaverse✨ - the augmented reality virtual world that promises the ability to "unlock a load of amazing new experiences" and claims that it will be the next best thing "since mobile internet". Do you believe

Cyber Security

How to Run ParrotOS on WSL2

In this tutorial, I will show you how to get ParrotOS running directly on WSL2, running Windows 10 (ver. 2004 / Build 19041 or higher) OR Windows 11 x64. ParrotOS is very useful if you're getting started in pen testing, as it already has all the useful tools installed that you

Cyber Security

Cybersecurity: Things to know going into 2022

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

Just for Fun

Machine Level Automation

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 ResourcesWant to check out the automation scripts

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 28 June - 4 July

Cyber Security

WireGuard - VPN underdog?

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

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 21 - 27 June 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #37 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog. Post of the WeekWould you? We've had

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 14 - 20 June 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #36 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog. Post of the WeekTrevor got his PC!

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 7 - 13 June 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #35 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog. Post of the WeekHmm, we have a

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 31 May - 6 June 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #34 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekHappy Pride Month to

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 24 - 30 May 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #33 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekSome of your responses

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 17 - 23 May 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #32 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekTalk about old school!

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 10 - 16 May 2021

Hey, it's here! Welcome to installment #31 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekGreat question in the

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 3 - 9 May 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #30 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekGreat post from Daniel

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 26 Apr - 2 May 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #29 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekAwesome post from Brian

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 19 - 25 Apr 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #28 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekWow, what an amazing

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 12 - 18 Apr 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #27 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekSherrie wins it this

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 5 - 11 Apr 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #26 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekShowing our entry-level roles

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 29 Mar - 4 Apr 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #25 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Posts of the WeekHang on... you mean

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 22 - 28 Mar 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #24 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Posts of the WeekWelcome to the group,

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Your Weekly IT Roundup 15 - 21 Mar 2021

Hey , it's here! Welcome to installment #23 of your Weekly IT Roundup, bringing you up-to-date on all the knowhow and the awesome group content you might've missed throughout the week! Missed last week's installment? No problem - here it is on our blog Post of the WeekWe got some fascinating

Cyber Security

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach "Catastrophic"

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

Cyber Security

Attackers place back door in Official PHP Git Repo

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