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Inside a $30,000 8 GHz Scope

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One of the best things about the Internet — especially the video part — is that you can get exposed to lots of things you might otherwise not be able to see. Take oscilloscopes, for example. If you were lucky, you might have one or two really nice instruments at work and you certainly weren’t going to be allowed to tear them open if they were working well. [The Signal Path], as a case in point, tears down a $30,000 MSO6 8 GHz oscilloscope . Actually, the base price is not quite $30,000 but by the time you outfit one, you’ll probably break the $30K barrier. Compared to the scopes we usually get to use, these are very different. Sure, the screens are larger and denser, but looking at the circuit boards they look more like some sort of high-end computer than an oscilloscope. Of course, in a way, that’s exactly what it is. The real trick to building an expensive 8 GHz is the signal integrity. But the most visible part of the design is thermal management. The entire box is full of heat s...

Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Check the Weasley Clock

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What’s the coolest thing you could build for a Harry Potter fan, aside from a working magic wand or Quidditch broomstick? We would have to say a Weasley clock that shows the whereabouts of everyone in the family is pretty high on the list, especially if that fan is a wife and mother. Here’s how it works: they’ve set up geofences to define the boundaries of home, each person’s school or workplace, and so on. The family’s locations are tracked through their phones’ GPS using Home Assistant, which is hosted on a Raspberry Pi. Whenever someone’s location changes, the Pi alerts the clock over MQTT, and it moves the 3D-printed hands with servos . The clock has some interesting granularity to it as well. As someone gets closer to home, their pointer’s distance reflects that in its proximity to the Home slice. And Home itself is divided into the main house and the shop and reflected by the pointer’s position. We particularly like the attention to detail here , like the art poster used for ...

WordPress Maintenance Mode By SeedProd 5.1.1 Cross Site Scripting

WordPress Maintenance Mode by SeedProd plugin version 5.1.1 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability. from Packet Storm https://ift.tt/2EwNhCZ

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software 9.7 Arbitrary File Deletion

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software version 9.7 unauthenticated arbitrary file deletion exploit. from Packet Storm https://ift.tt/2EwNl5H

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software 9.11 Local File Inclusion

Adaptive Security Appliance Software version 9.11 local file inclusion exploit. from Packet Storm https://ift.tt/2P33aD4

Sifter 9

Sifter is a osint, recon, and vulnerability scanner. It combines a plethora of tools within different module sets in order to quickly perform recon tasks, check network firewalling, enumerate remote and local hosts, and scan for the blue vulnerabilities within Microsoft systems and if unpatched, exploits them. from Packet Storm https://ift.tt/2DiTsty

A Mobile Phone For The Pulse Dial Generation

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One of the useful side effects of the ubiquitous availability of cellular network data modules is that they can be used to create custom mobile phones. It’s surprising in a way that we don’t see as many of these projects as we’d expect, but by way of redressing that deficiency we’re pleased to see the work of [Proton Gamer], who has taken a vintage rotary dial phone and upgraded it with an Arduino and GSM shield to make a very unexpected mobile phone project. It’s not entirely certain from the write-up which manufacturer produced the donor phone or for which country’s network it was produced, but it seems typical of the type you might have found the world over in the 1960s. We’re given a breakdown of the various components and how to interface to them, the ringer for example is run using a motor driver board. There are comprehensive instructions for the conversion, though sadly they involve gutting the phone and removing the original hardware. The result can be seen in the video belo...