Collaborate Disseminate
When you need coffee, you don’t need any hassles standing between you and caffeination. Especially ironic hassles, like having to do more to turn on appliances inside of home automation schemes than you did without them.
[Maurice Makaay] bought a smart plug to add this beautiful drip coffee machine to …read more
Back in the early days of Arduino proliferation (and before you ask, yes we realize there was a time before that too), wireless was a strange and foreign beast. IR communication was definitely a thing. And if you had the funds there was this cool technology called ZigBee that was available, often in funny blue house-shaped XBee boards. With even more funds and a stomach for AT commands you could even bolt on a 2G cell radio for unlimited range. WiFi existed too, but connecting it to a hobbyist ecosystem of boards was a little hairier (though maybe not for …read more
This week, net neutrality and what it really means, Qradar vulnerability, trying to secure your mobile device, when Z-Wave attacks, routers are open to attack because of your ISP, Starbucks and XSS, Despacito hackers arrested, rebooting your routers, a… Continue reading Z-Wave, SSD, Singapore ISP, and VPN Filter Malware Risk – Hack Naked News #175
Millions of locks, alarms, sensors, light bulbs, garage door openers and other IoT devices that communicate over the Z-Wave protocol can be forced to use weaker security than they actually support. Z-Wave is a wireless communications protocol that use… Continue reading Z-Wave IoT Devices Vulnerable to Security Downgrade Attack
They say charity begins at home, well IoT security probably should too. The growing number of Internet enabled and connected devices we populate our homes with continues to grow year on year – yet, with each new device we connect up, the less confident… Continue reading Consumer IoT Security v1.01
Sometimes, you just can’t find something you want, and that’s when you break out the tools and get dirty with a bit of DIY. Reddit user [JaredBanyard] wanted a nice beam light for the dining room/gaming room. He ended up building one that shone both downward, on the table, and upward, adding some light to the room.
Warm white LED strip lighting was chosen, and two aluminum channels were glued together to hold them. After wiring the four LED strips together a diffuser was placed over them and then they were wired up and turned on to check the amount …read more
Continue reading Dual Direction Gaming/Dining Room Beam Lights
Far too much stuff is wireless these days. Home security systems have dozens of radios for door and window sensors, thermostats aren’t just a wire to the furnace anymore, and we are annoyed when we can’t start our cars from across a parking lot. This is a golden era for anyone who wants to hack RF. This year at Shmoocon, [Marc Newlin] and [Matt Knight] of Bastille Networks gave an overview of how to get into hacking RF. These are guys who know a few things about hacking RF; [Marc] is responsible for MouseJack and KeySniffer, and [Matt] reverse engineered …read more
“Security” is the proverbial dead horse we all like to beat when it comes to technology. This is of course not unjust — we live in a technological society built with a mindset of “security last”. There’s always one reason or another proffered for this: companies need to fail fast and will handle security once a product proves viable, end users will have a harder time with setup and use if systems are secured or encrypted, and governments/law enforcement don’t want criminals hiding behind strongly secured systems.
This is an argument I don’t want to get bogged down in. For …read more
Continue reading Asking the Security Question of Home Automation
