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The Äike electric scooter relies entirely on a cloud-backed mobile app for locking, unlocking, and other controls, which becomes risky once the manufacturer goes bankrupt and services degrade. By reverse engineering the Android app, using Frida to intercept BLE GATT traffic and Java hashing calls, the author uncovers a SHA-1–based challenge-response that incorrectly uses a global default key rather than a unique per-device secret. With this knowledge, any nearby Äike scooter can be authenticated to and remotely commanded via a short Python proof-of-concept using Bleak.
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PyFRC2G converts pfSense and OPNSense firewall rules into graphical flow diagrams and PDF documentation through API-based alias retrieval, automatic interface detection, and per-interface output generation with color-coded visualization. The tool implements smart change detection using MD5 comparison to regenerate graphs only when rules change, generates separate CSV and PDF files for each interface using Graphviz, and supports optional CISO Assistant integration for automatic upload of compliance evidence. Security teams can use PyFRC2G to visually document complex firewall rule sets and meet IT security compliance requirements across various frameworks without manual configuration files.
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Fail2Ban scans log files and bans IP addresses that conduct too many failed login attempts. It does this by updating system firewall rules to reject new connections from those IP addresses, for a configurable amount of time. Fail2Ban comes out-of-the-box ready to read many standard log files, such as those for sshd and Apache. It can be easily configured to read any log file of your choosing, for any error you wish.
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