Archive for 2016
I/O error text message notification
by zitstif on Dec.31, 2016, under Code, Posts
Recently a good friend be-gifted me Banana PI M3 for my birthday. I decided to turn it into a NAS. Granted it is no Synology NAS but it gets the job done and openmediavault is a wonderful software suite to use on it. I thought to myself, “It would be nice to get a notification if there are any I/O errors via dmesg on my homemade NAS. So I whipped up a simple solution:
vim /bin/ioerrorcontact
#!/bin/bash
if dmesg | fgrep ‘I/O error’ &> /dev/null;
then
curl http://textbelt.com/text -d number=MyPhoneNumber -d message=”I/O Error on your NAS” &> /dev/null;
fi
crontab -e
0 * * * * bash /bin/ioerrorcontact
This is just a quick and simple hack but it’s peace of mind knowing that I have something in place to notify me if my simple NAS is having any issues, especially since I do not have RAID 1 configured on it. RAID 1 via BananaPi or really any other Pi devices at this point isn’t really that great because you would have the split one SATA channel/bandwidth to be able to get it to work. I also strongly recommend that if you’re going to build a low powered NAS device using a Pi device, to use the BananaPi because it has gigabit Ethernet. Other than that, if you have the money to shell out and want a better solution, I recommend Synology NAS products.
#Update 4/14/2017
Textbelt.com now requires a key parameter and is no longer ‘free’:
Bypassing Windows 10 admin and bitlocker using in-place upgrade hack
by zitstif on Nov.29, 2016, under Videos
Very worthwhile to checkout!
http://blog.win-fu.com/2016/11/every-windows-10-in-place-upgrade-is.html
Jtagging smart phones
by zitstif on Nov.14, 2016, under Posts
This is a very interesting and worthwhile post:
Backdooring android apks
by zitstif on Oct.17, 2016, under Posts
Interesting article/program:
http://www.hackingarticles.in/hack-android-phone-using-spade-apk-backdoor/
For those of you wanting to get Kali Linux/Nethunter on “X” phone.. there is hope
by zitstif on Aug.16, 2016, under Posts
It’s starting to look like kali-nethunter is supporting more devices:
https://github.com/offensive-security/kali-nethunter/wiki#10-supported-devices-and-roms
It looks like they’ve also released a python script that will build a flashable Nethunter zip file to put on your phone:
https://github.com/offensive-security/kali-nethunter/wiki/Building-Nethunter