The reporting in this piece is so bad. I have to wonder if the pen tester here took advantage of the WSJ’s total lack of awareness around how this stuff works, or the WSJ’s editorial staff knowingly embellished a story about how bad Wallbox is at IoT Device design.
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After setting up a Pi-hole DNS server for my IoT network VLAN, it was time to configure the internal firewall so that devices on it wouldn’t be able to communicate with the other VLANs in an unsolicited way. Ubiquiti has an article posted on their site which lays the foundation for this goal, but it doesn’t quite meet my requirements […]
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I recently setup Pi-Hole on my IoT network following the instructions on Scott Helme’s blog. Unfortunately the JSON config that he suggested didn’t quite work on my network. Full disclosure the solution here is pulled mostly from the comments on his post, so this is more documenting the thing that I found, than the thing I figured out on my […]
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I promised myself I wouldn’t believe anything I read today, but fortunately I’m going back on this commitment to let you know about the new 1.1.1.1 DNS service that Cloudflare has just rolled out. Obviously this isn’t the first public DNS service that provides a mechanism to work around your ISP’s poor DNS resolution; Google’s 8.8.8.8 and the “Quad9” 9.9.9.9 […]
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If you use an ISP provided, low-end, or older Wi-Fi router, the options for network management are often quite limited. There is simply no way to find out who is connected to your network or control which devices have access when. Devices which add this capability have recently started popping up on the market; each with a different set […]
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