Harvestore WISP Install
Over the years many MidWestern WISPS have fashioned ways to use Harvestore silos for broadcast locations. With the help of one of our good clients, who did most of the work designing this, we were able to install a very …
WhatsApp Vulnerability
A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app’s memory. https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have.html
DDoS attacks in high bandwidth bursts
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ddos-attacks-hitting-victims-in-high-bandwidth-bursts Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600 network-level attacks encountered by its clients to find that attackers continued to increase the intensity of attacks as they also shortened attack duration. More than half of the attacks lasted eight minutes …
Data of 70 million AT&T users exposed
https://cybernews.com/news/att-database-of-70-million-users-sold-on-hacker-forum/ ShinyHunters, the same group of threat actors that posted T-Mobile users’ data for sale just days ago, is now selling 70 million records that allegedly belong to another mobile service provider – AT&T. The sample of data for sale includes …
RouterOS 7 goes RC
What’s new in 7.1rc1 (2021-Aug-19 13:06): !) added support for IPv6 NAT (CLI only);!) added support for L2TPv3 (CLI only);*) added “expired” user status with suggestion to change password (WinBox v3.29 required);*) added bridge HW offload support for vlan-filtering on …
Pentagon transfers 175 million IP’s
As of January 2021, the Pentagon transferred 175 Million IPv4 addresses to a new and unknown Florida based company named Global Resource Systems, LLC. This came as a bit of a shock to the internet community for the following four …
Portable Raspberry Pi Game system
Looking for a way to take all of those retro games with you? The folks over at VILROS have a solution for you. It’s called the Retroflag GPi CASE with Carrying Bag for Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W. Add …
Mikrotik IoT KNOT application examples
Many of you are getting familiar with The Internet of Everything (IoT). This naturally leads to the question “What can I do with it?”. Mikrotik has put together a PDF of some real-world examples of how you can put their …
Tower take down photos
Sone tower work we did in Cincinnati 14 years ago. Taking down an old MCI tower.
Musings of an ISP engineer Part 1
-Mondays are for emergencies leftover from the weekend. Try not to schedule meetings or things that can’t be fluid. -Customers lie, even when they don’t do it intentionally. They can’t help it. -Sometimes you have to ask your questions in …
Justin’s laws of running an ISP
Some of you may recognize these similar to Murphy’s laws of combat 1. 3am is when you find out your backups don’t work 2. Incoming ddos attacks have the right of way 3. Don’t look important, important people get asked …