Category Archives: Security

Hide your own Homebrewed Stingray in a printer

Posted on November 3, 2016 by robertwilkie

The author uses a RaspberryPi with some antennas and hides the setup within a HP printer to act as a mini cell tower and sniff in on the traffic.  Pretty clever build. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/02/printer_spy_box/

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How to kill off those pesky drones

Posted on October 31, 2016 by robertwilkie

Basically you take an Raspberry Pi and it makes a wifi connection to the drone and tells it to shut down. Build a Wi-Fi Drone Disabler with Raspberry Pi

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Someone hacked an electronic billboard to play smut

Posted on October 4, 2016 by robertwilkie

Sigh….Another IoT problem with security. http://gizmodo.com/porn-plays-on-electronic-billboard-during-traffic-jam-1787293528

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OSQuery, Security tool from Facebook

Posted on October 4, 2016 by robertwilkie

Interesting tool.  Sounds like it looks at what is on your system and see if there our any outstanding issues for those processes.  I think… https://fossbytes.com/facebooks-open-source-security-tool-osquery-comes-windows/

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Use 2 factor auth with RPi

Posted on October 4, 2016 by robertwilkie

Another good writeup on hack-a-day for Raspberry Pi’s.  This time how to setup certificate based authentication, or 2 factor with google. Lock Up Your Raspberry Pi with Google Authenticator

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Spam back the Spammers

Posted on September 27, 2016 by robertwilkie

The author wrote a program that will spam the spammers back and basically try to fake them out so it looks liek a real person on the other end. http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/09/developer-creates-bot-wastes-spammers-time/?utm_source=mainrss

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Pretty cool drop box hack computer

Posted on September 13, 2016 by robertwilkie

Basically its a simple Linux based computer you can pay $50 for and drop in at a place to sniff for information.  Or in this case, you plug it into a computer that is locked and it unlocks it for … Continue reading →

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Nothing like a computer faking your handwritting

Posted on September 8, 2016 by robertwilkie

Thankfully it may not have your “style”.  Anyways, the University of College London has created a program called “my Text in Your Handwritting” that can write a letter in your handwriting from samples. https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/12/a-computer-program-that-can-replicate-your-handwriting/

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Using an RPi to know who is home

Posted on September 7, 2016 by robertwilkie

Pretty good idea, uses MAC addresses to figure out who is home or not.  Given the RPi Zero is $5, the rest of the stuff to go with it puts it around $20. https://github.com/initialstate/pi-sensor-free-presence-detector/wiki

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Hacking a Volkswagen

Posted on September 2, 2016 by robertwilkie

Basically with an arduino and a RF shield, the author was able to intercept and clone the unique key used to unlock a car.  Not too surpising, but I am surpised since this goes back to 1995, no one else … Continue reading →

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