The house had an old school mains powered security light. Time to upgrade to the 21st century with some solar powered lights. The ones I got were basic and from ebay, they have 142 leds per light, and have a Read more…
The workshop is coming along nicely now – areas for tools, music equipment, and plenty room for working on machines, servers, blog content, experiments or random things like gameboys! The rug is going to go soon – it was from Read more…
What would a modern workshop be without an Internet connection đŸ˜‚ We have FTTP which enters the property at the front – into a router. I’ve run a cable from there, along the skirting and out near the front door Read more…
In Scotland there are a few things that you can do which don’t require planning permission (or a building warrant) extending a ring to add extra sockets is one of those things you can do if you have a regular Read more…
At the end of the COVID lockdown, we took a drive to see family in Kent; Both my Brother and his family and Zoes Sister and her family live down there. It was a long drive down (7 hours driving Read more…
Following on from my vuejs and cordova tutorials, I decided to launch the app – you can now download the app from the app store I’ll be creating a roadmap and adding features – it is very very basic at Read more…
Nice little retro radio (after re-seating the loose valves and sorting the plug it works fine :) https://www.vintage-radio.com/recent-repairs/philips-b2g81u.html
I got a little drone for my birthday – the x300c from simrex, it’s got a great set of features – watch out for some more posts (it’s far from a pro drone, but will be great fun)
Building a wordpress plugin scaffolding from scratch This is a basic walkthrough on how to create the scaffolding for a wordpress plugin from scratch. Firstly, create a repo in githubclone that repo to your machine and inside, create a file Read more…
Woodford Reserve and Fentimans Curiosity Cola!
I ordered some alex drawers, some linmon desktops (the 2m versions) and some little stands from Ikea for some ikea desk hacks, and three 4×2 kallax units for storing books on the other wall. The first thing to do was Read more…
300 word summary: What is the paper about? Defending Against Injection Attacks Through Context-Sensitive String Evaluation introduces CSSE – Context-Sensitive String Evaluation – a way to detect sqlI in php at runtime – essentially an intrusion detection platform for php apps Read more…
What is an API (Introduction to APIs) Carrying on from my previous posts on SOA here and here I thought it may be useful to write a post on what an API is, giving some lower level information on my Read more…
300 word summary: AMNESIA: analysis and monitoring for NEutralizing SQL-injection attacks. Provides a valuable background section on the countermeasures for SQL injection attacks: Defensive Programming General Techniques against SQLi Static Analysis techniques Provides examples of SQL injection attacks, with sql Read more…
My MSc Thesis in 2016 was titled Evaluation of SQL injection testing tools and techniques. I had a quick look through all my old uni work looking for content to put on my blog, and decided to see if I Read more…
My research notes about the different types of sqli – sql injection attack types; inband (eg reading errors from the screen) out-of-band (getting information from a different channel eg from an email after the attack) inferrential (or blind) – getting Read more…
What is the paper about? a holistic approach for a static analysis algorithm to detect sqli in web applications using run-time inspection Who is the intended audience? researchers Is title/abstract accurate yes Is the big ‘point’ of the work clear? Read more…
This paper (A Classification of SQL Injection Attacks and Countermeasures) has an excellent section on Injection mechanisms – the way that sql code is modified to actually perform the injection attack – the attack vectors – user inputs cookies server Read more…
There are limited opportunities for adventure during covid. This adventure took place less than 2 miles from our house, and for the government mandated 1 hour. ? https://blantyreproject.com/2016/12/blantyreferme-anti-aircraft-battery/
Our new house came with decking, but it was in need of a coat of paint. It lasted the inter fine, but was in need of some TLC. Just before lockdown I managed to get some grey paint (our shed Read more…
Our new house has a garage, which I’m going to use as a workshop area (though I wont be changing its actual use from a garage, it will still be a garage, only with nice shelves on either side and Read more…
It’s time for a new phone again, and I decided to get a little Huawei phone this time. So far it’s a great wee phone. Does everything my old umidigi one max did, except wireless charging (which I never used Read more…
Since moving to our new house we have been doing a number of DIY jobs, including this makeover of our little girls bedroom, and turning the spare room into a permanent playroom so that she had somewhere to draw, play Read more…
Corona Lockdown 2020. We have been WFH for 3 weeks, Olivia is starting to get bored (she has completed netflix) I decided to put up the tent after reading about a guy walking the west highland way in his garden Read more…
At work we use myzone as an incentive to keep people fit – we have challenges each month to see who can do the most :) Ive used Huel in the past, but the white version has lots of carbs Read more…
It (unexpectedly) works, first time, no messing! More info here: https://www.britishtelephones.com/t746.htm Dialing a mobile from it is a pain though!
I recently saw this tweet from kali linux https://twitter.com/kalilinux/status/1209615382224547840?s=19 on installing rootless nethunter on an unrooted android device. This is my attempt to do so. The tweet linked here: https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter/nethunter-rootless/ The instructions are pretty easy to follow Install the NetHunter-Store Read more…
