Month: January 2018
Hacking the hikvision: part 2
So I first wrote about getting the serial access here, and about some of the access bits here. Today lets talk about toolchains etc. (for those just joining, I have some IOT devices, notably IP cameras, which are now insecure, and there is no, and will be no, firmware upgrade for them from the vendor…
Hacking the Hikvision: part 1
OK, you voted to not be lazy, and thus I’ve stuck to it. Where am I at with upgrading the DS-2CD2132 hikvision cameras? Well, not super far. We ran into a snag. The new firmware only works in the chinese region. I guess I could accept that, but it does have the english strings in…
Crypto on the keychain: the Ledger nano s
So yesterday I received my Ledger nano s. Its a hardware crypto-wallet, storing all your hard-earned coins in a safe, secure, offline fashion. Now, i’m not a huge crypto-baron, sitting on billions of $$$ of XRP/XMR/BTC/ETH/…, I’m a casual miner. Still, $ is $, and you want to HODL in style and safety. First, a…
What is the temperature of a feral cat’s butt?
Said no one ever. Until this post. Imagine what you can talk about in idle conversation now. Earlier I introduced you to outdoor kitty, he inhabits the area in and around my backyard. And he has a little house outside. And, until now, it was presumed warm. Presume no further, through the power of zigbee…
Upgrading the Insecure Army of Internet Things… onwards to the cameras
OK, you voted for me to ‘not be lazy’ and just find a way to update the firmware on the army of electronics that failed the latest security sweep. OK, so I have, or, am in progress. The NAS, well, that was a bit of a pain in the butt, but I soldered on a…
