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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/11
An interesting re-use: [WayBack] Transform Your ESP8266 Board into a USB to Serial Board Easily with Arduino Serial Bypass Sketch
Via: [WayBack] If you don’t have a USB to TTL board around, you can use an +ESP8266 board instead (or any other Arduino compatible boards with USB). – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/10
#IoT + Google Maps Geocoding API
Convert between addresses & geographic coordinates to determine the location of devices relative to known addresses https://goo.gl/BfwYTF
Edit 202400819: the Googl link above will die, and the link it pointed to (enterprise.google.com/maps/iot) back then pointed to [Wayback/Archive] IoT & Smart Location of Things – Google Maps, Google Cloud.
Source: [WayBack] IoT & Smart Location of Things – Google Maps, Google Cloud
Via: [WayBack] Google Maps API – Google+
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/26
Just over a year after this got posted, I wonder what the current state of affairs is. Did it get a lot worse or just a little (as when writing this in November 2016 my guess is that it won’t get any better soon):
To repeat +Thomas Mueller ‘s words:
Internet of default passwords …
Sounds bad until you realize that it’s even worse. There are millions of devices out there that can be or have already been compromised and can get their owners into deep shit, without their owners even doing anything wrong. And keeping your virus scanner up to date won’t help at all (it doesn’t really protect your PC either, but that’s a different story).Just watch the first 10 minutes of the video, but be warned, it might ruin your day.
Via +Joe C. Hecht:
I found this to be a superior product – If you are into security, this episode was worth a listen. I hear they are into talking about home servers too. I like that.
A new TechSNAP is OUT: http://bit.ly/tsnap288
The Internet of Things is the Internet of Terrible, we’ll round up the week’s stories & submit the TechSNAP solution to you the audience. Plus the security cost of Android fragmentation, great questions & a packed round up!
Source:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/23
This was too funny to let go unnoticed: [WayBack] How to turn on the light at home, Philips Version – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+.
It was shown during [Archive.is] Google Cloud Next 2017 in Amsterdam and immediately reminded me of The Big Bang Theory – How to turn on a lamp below.
A few notable entries from the comments:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/02
Just one example; it applies to virtually all consumer IoT and routers I know: upgrading is hard especially if it’s undocumented on how to keep your configuration.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/20
I translated the heading and one quote; if you want to read further in English: Google translate does a good job on the text.
HVAC thermostats, bread baskets, coffee machines: The net is full of things, which make no sense at all and nobody needs. The Internet of Things is a huge pile of shit, says Clemens Gleich.
…
There are no error-free systems, there are maximum undetected errors.
German original:
Heizungsthermostate, Brotkörbe, Kaffeemaschinen: Das Netz ist voll mit Dingen, die da nur Quatsch machen. Braucht kein Mensch. Das Internet of Things ist ein riesiger Haufen Scheiße, meint Clemens Gleich.
…
Es gibt keine fehlerfreien Systeme, es gibt maximal unentdeckte Fehler.
[WayBack] Kommentar: The Internet of Shitty Things | heise online
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/20
Conclusions:
“1/x: So I bought a surveillance camera”: [WayBack] Rob Graham 🦃 on Twitter: “1/x: So I bought a surveillance camera https://t.co/HbmPzrZgFK”
Interesting: [WayBack] Errata Security: Configuring Raspberry Pi as a router
Via: [WayBack] Plugging in a new IP webcam. 98 seconds. infected. Wow. https://twitter.com/E… – G+ Jan Wildeboer
Interesting: [WayBack] Errata Security: Configuring Raspberry Pi as a router
Of course Rob tried many webcams to find a vulnerable one. And putting telnet port 23 to the open is not the best idea, but people do that or get an indirect infection by some piece of JavaScript from an Ad-Network that searches for local vulnerable devices. That’s how the internet works!
Since Twitter and other social media ten to show the non-interesting part of a stream, here is the full one (no time to edit out the superfluous stuff):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/07
This can be used for TheThingsNetwork.org.
Some downloads:
| File | Last modified | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Kerlink_gateway_channel_setup_v0.2.pdf | 2015-05-18 17:20 | 838Kb |
| Kerlink_gateway_installation_R7.pdf | 2015-08-13 14:32 | 805Kb |
| Python_gateway_spectrum_display.zip | 2015-04-09 15:54 | 10Kb |
| kerlink_IoT_LoRa_update.zip | 2015-08-13 14:27 | 63Kb |
| kerlink_IoT_LoRa_update_DHCP.zip | 2015-08-13 14:27 | 64Kb |
Source: Kerlink IoT station page | LoRa | Semtech
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/24
Interesting thought:
Devices in a separate LAN (or VLAN) with no default gateway and some firewall rules to access them from your regular LAN and update them through FWUPD an open source firmware update.
Sounds like a dream? We should all make it come true!
Read I don’t have #IoT. I have #LoT. LAN of things. for more ideas.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/22
Less than a month after The IoT strikes back: 650 Gigabit/second and 1 Terabit/second attacks by IoT devices within a week the IoT struck back again: an estimated half a million IoT devices was used to perform multiple DDoS attacks against Dyn Managed DNS that took around 11 hours to resolve.
Google DNS appears to “live” near me in Amsterdam
High availability usually involves a mix of DNS TTL and/or BGP routing. That’s typically how CDN providers like Cloudflare work (it’s one of the reasons that global DNS servers like Google’s 8.8.8.8 appear near to you and over time routes – some MPLS – to it change). Short DNS TTL can help CDN, requires a very stable DNS infrastructure and is similar to but different from a Fast Flux network.
Last months attacks were on a security researcher and a single ISP. The Dyn DNS attack affected even more internet services (not just sites like Twitter, WhatsApp, AirBnB and Github). So I’m with Bruce Schneier that Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet.
Handling these attacks is hard as the DDoS mitigation firms simply cannot handle the sudden increase of attack sizes yet. BCP38 should be part of mitigation, but the puzzle is big and fixing it won’t be easy though root-causes of bugs change as a lot of research is in progress.
I’m not alone in expecting it to get worse though before getting better.
On the client side, I learned that many users could cope by changing their DNS servers to either of these Public DNS Servers:
Some more interesting tidbits on the progress and mitigation on this particular attack are the over time heat-maps of affected regions and BGP routing changes below.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 