It's been over a year since I've had a chance to make some real improvements to this project; there was one minor feature update back in Sept for Open Canary support , but since then most releases have been maintenance releases to keep the container fresh. But all that changed at the end of May! The Version 0.1.x series This major update was all about tacking some user experience issues that I…
My Christmas project this year was to make my old 2012 iMac work; previously I have used OpenCore Legacy Patcher to keep MacOS going but that was become less useable -- Enter Linux! This note is specifically geared towards OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but is hopefully helpful for anyone trying similar with any other distro. TLDR; Install b43-fwcutter Download broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2 sudo…
I have published a Home Assistant Addon for DNSCrypt Proxy. TLDR: In the HA Addon-store add my repository 👉🏻 https://github.com/linickx/ha-addons Install DNSCrypt Proxy ( and Start the addon ) Edit /addon_configs/ba53f40c-dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml to suit your needs ( restart addon to take effect ) Profit?! What is DNSCrypt Proxy? By default DNS traffic ( TCP & UDP 53 ) is not…
The documentation for running HAOS on KVM is pretty good but not enough for me, in fairness it state that Secure Boot is not supported, but the clues given to disable that are a little cryptic, this post are my notes. Preface: Some personal tweaks. I used the virt-install command given, but the default tries to connect to the console -- which without secure boot disabled is just a blank screen, so…
I spent 3 hours on this so you don't have too, well many credits goes to this guy, Ben Williamson for publishing his layout which I modified. The nice people at Keeb.io ship their IRIS keyboards with a handy print out that shows all the default keys & layers, which is American. Out of the box, I needed to make some changes such as moving | , I also wanted the OSX Mission Control buttons, and then…
Last Year, storms in the UK caused damage to my Netatmo outdoor module, it became permanently disconnected from the indoor base station. The iPhone app seems to require a working module to remove it, i.e. it wants to connect first before letting you delete it, which not only is a bit weird but of course doesn't work if the module is broken. After logging a ticket with Netatmo's support team, they…
Finding this solution via Google/Bing/etc was just impossible, so this post is an attempt to make this easier. Some Important Information: If you're using SharePoint online, i.e. a cloud solution, something part of office365 or whatever it's called today, this post is NOT for you; there are plenty of python posts, libraries and packages for that, this is what you need to do if you business is…
After implementing an Open-Canary based home honeypot in part 1 , for my research project I moved onto implementing a DNS based anomaly detection intrusion detection system ... try saying that 3 times fast after a few pints! 😆 📝 This post assumes that you already have Home Detector installed on your Home Assistant server. The idea is an internal, home network honeypot would only trigger if there…
This project, 🎉 Home Detector 🎉 , started life as an academic project and is something I hope to continue, if you're interested in some home intrusion detection, read-on! Some Background & Context In my 40s, I have decided to go back to school and for my MSc final thesis I researched intrusion detection for home networks 😱 . The lens was simple do we know if our home LAN/Wi-Fi is under attack,…
TLDR: 🔥🔥🔥 If you still use root-cookie, please delete it from your WordPress/Website 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Today I have requested that the Plugins team over at WordPress.org org delete my root-cookie plugin . I started it back in 2008 for WP 2.6 , probably before if you dig into the SVN history, back when things were very different. Back in the early days of WordPress, it was a "sub directory" , i.e. you…