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UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max - Tech Specs (ui.com) This is (mostly) a step-up from the UDM SE (which I have) with the exception of the deletion of the PoE and PoE+ ports. It's claimed to be able to handle double the number of Unifi devices, 200 instead of 100, and offers higher IDS/IPS...

The province was very excited to hear the announcement by BWXT that they are going to spend $80 million expanding their Cambridge plant. BWXT produces the steam generators (boilers) for our nuclear plants as well as numerous other components and are slated to manufacture the reactor vessel for...

https://www.eenews.net/articles/3-offshore-wind-projects-nixed-in-new-york/ Effectively: The economics of the projects were predicated on the availability of a new, larger, 18MW turbine from GE, which GE has now cancelled. The projects are no longer viable with a smaller 15MW turbine, the PPA...

That could be used by criminals for malicious purposes a recent study by Satori Threat Intelligence have discovered. Article by Malwarebytes here: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/04/free-vpn-apps-turn-android-phones-into-criminal-proxies Researchers at HUMAN’s Satori Threat...

Except maybe massive hydro, obviously geographically limited, with HUGE CAPEX. Some might recall the previous Seaver Wang piece I shared here: Cogeneration in China - Solar production | Bob Is The Oil Guy Talking about solar module production with onsite coal plants. Well, he's got another...

https://therecord.media/chinese-hacking-group-apt31-uses-mesh-of-home-routers-to-disguise-attacks This is an older (2021) article, but it quotes Ben Koehl, who works at Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, indicating that using these bots as proxies makes the attack appear to be coming from...

Seems this is becoming a more common topic on twitter: Different car: Different car again: Another car, this guy tried to remedy it with tape: Relevant thread where many of the pics are from: It appears this starts to happen at around the 90-100,000 mile mark and just progressively...

"Reader friendly" article: This Is How Hackers Can Use Smart Bulbs to Spy on Your Wi-Fi Password (beebom.com) Actual PDF of the report here: 2308.09019.pdf (arxiv.org) Effectively, the system is vulnerable to impersonation during setup, which can also be leveraged during a re-pairing: As...

Was given this by a person I did some data recovery for. I have no need for it, if nobody here wants it, I'll put it on Kijiji. It's free, you pay shipping. It's a D-Link DIR-859 that I've flashed with OpenWRT 23.05.2:

The pics he posted, calling home to China: The tool: And his statement: As I've been saying recently, it's only going to get worse as cyberthreats get more complex and "smart devices", as well as connected electronics, often coming from China, become more prolific.

Given some of the subject matter I've covered in recent weeks regarding the state/quality/security of most consumer network gear, I thought it prudent to put together a short guide with screenshots on how you can leverage old hardware or something cheap from E-bay/Kijiji/Craigslist to provide...

In May of last year Check Point, a name most should be familiar with as a firewall and security company, released the following report: The Dragon Who Sold His Camaro: Analyzing Custom Router Implant - Check Point Research By monitoring targeted attack traffic, it was traced back to Chinese...

Pre-refurbishment work has commenced at Pickering. They are ordering parts, doing up the engineering diagrams and a host of other activities. At Darlington B, the SMR site, early site prep work is now complete...

https://futurism.com/the-byte/europe-automakers-buttons-knobs-safer-touchscreens European regulators have told automakers to ditch the touchscreens in favor of knobs and buttons if they want to get a better safety rating. As the Times reports, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is...

Was cleaning out around my reload workstation and found this stuffed down the side of the UPS. This was a pull from an SMB client of mine a few years back now. The unit never really performed all that well and it requires a subscription. The (Sophos) access point that was purchased with it was...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-infect-dutch-military-network-with-malware/ And this is not the first time security vulnerabilities have been found in their products, and exploited. Saw this on twitter and thought it captured it well, lol:

https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-sets-48-hour-deadline-for-removal-of-insecure-ivanti-products/ *snip* I assume they mean *cryptominers*. This is a devastating situation for not only the company, but potentially for anyone using this equipment that is at extreme risk of being backdoored...

TOS as to what's collected: Note the owner of many popular VPN's is Kape (formerly Crossrider), who apparently does/did ad tracking and injection.

It's official, the government announced the approval of OPG's plan to refurbish the 4x Pickering B units! Was there for the event, which had very high attendance! An interesting twist! The plant will be upgraded with a deep water inlet like at Darlington and Bruce, which means a roughly 1km...

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the Provincial Crown Corporation that owns all of Ontario's nuclear assets, has "entered into an agreement with Capital Power Corporation of Alberta to jointly assess the development and deployment of grid-scale small modular reactors (SMR's) to provide clean...