I love my homelab — but accessing it remotely from a hotel or café only gets me so far. That remote connection works fine for simpler tasks like checking dashboards, running scripts, waking up, or shutting down machines. But anything heavier — large file transfers, streaming, or running intensive workloads — quickly reveals public Wi-Fi’s limitations. What I wanted was a self-contained homelab — an offline-capable setup that runs on a private network and is fully under my control. That’s what led me to turn the Raspberry Pi 4 and HP ProDesk 600 G6 mini PC into a homelab I…
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Ravie LakshmananApr 25, 2026Network Security / Infrastructure Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2024-57726 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A missing authorization vulnerability in SimpleHelp that could allow low-privileged technicians to create API keys with excessive permissions, which can then be used to escalate privileges to the server admin role. CVE-2024-57728 (CVSS score: 7.2) – A path traversal vulnerability in SimpleHelp that allows…
Whether you lead a scaling brand or an established global enterprise, you already know the frustration. You’re watching massive digital budgets yield diminishing returns, while agile disruptors consistently beat you to the punch. When you audit the citations within AI Overviews, ChatGPT responses, and Claude summaries, the reality is stark. Smaller, faster competitors are claiming more of the most lucrative, bottom-of-funnel commercial queries. It’s time to challenge the outdated assumption that legacy domain authority is enough to protect your pipeline. We’ve entered an era where operational agility often beats legacy brand equity. AI models demand rapid, machine-readable data to establish…
Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre warned on Thursday. “The [Firestarter] malware (…) is relevant for both Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices; however, CISA has only observed a successful implant of the malware in the wild on a Cisco Firepower device running ASA software,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency noted. CISA also shared threat hunting rules US federal civilian agencies should use to search for evidence of the malware on their own systems. The malware’s persistence mechanism The two…
Andy Walker / Android AuthorityThis open-source tool acts as a middleman between elevated Android functionality and permissions and third-party apps, giving the latter (and the user) access to previously locked-away features. It might not sound like much, but it’s a core reason why Shizuku is one of the most important Android apps for power users. Do you use Shizuku on your Android phone?43 votesYes, regularly.37%I’ve it installed, but I rarely use it.21%I’ve never tried it, but now I want to.28%No, I don’t need it.14% Despite this power, Shizuku is pretty useless on its own. Without supporting apps that leverage its…
A new financially motivated hacking group tracked as BlackFile has been linked to a wave of data theft and extortion attacks against retail and hospitality organizations since February 2026. The group, also tracked as CL-CRI-1116, UNC6671, and Cordial Spider, is impersonating corporate IT helpdesk staff to steal employee credentials and demand seven-figure ransoms, according to information shared by cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 with the Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC). Unit 42 security researchers have also linked BlackFile with moderate confidence to “The Com,” a loose-knit network of English-speaking cybercriminals known for targeting and…
Clicks as a ranking-related signal have been a subject of debate for over twenty years, although nowadays most SEOs understand that clicks are not a direct ranking factor. The simple truth about clicks is that they are raw data and, surprisingly, processed with some similarity to human rater scores. Clicks Are A Raw Signal The DOJ Antitrust memorandum opinion from September 2025 mentions clicks as a “raw signal” that Google uses. It also categorizes content, human rater scores, and search queries as raw signals. This is important because a raw signal is the lowest-level data point. Raw signals are generally…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Though I’ve spent years evangelizing for the Boox Palma 2, a phone-sized Chinese e-reader with an open Android operating system, my allegiances have shifted in recent months. I’m now obsessed with the tiny, slightly janky, minimalist devices put out by Xteink, another Chinese tech company. And I’m far from the only one—the Xteink subreddit is a busy place.The $69 Xteink X4 has a 4.3-inch screen and native software that’s so bad, it wasn’t really worth recommending until fans of the device cobbled together their own crowdsourced alternative. The $79 X3…
A newly uncovered APT is relying on legitimate services for command-and-control (C&C) communication and data exfiltration, ESET warns. Tracked as GopherWhisper (PDF) and active since at least November 2023, the hacking group is operating out of China, as timestamp inspection of chat messages and emails has revealed. The APT came to the spotlight in January 2025, during the investigation into a Go-based backdoor found on the systems of a governmental entity in Mongolia, which led to the identification of several other backdoors, custom loaders, and injectors associated with the group. Dubbed LaxGopher, the backdoor uses Slack for C&C communication and…
The ESP32 is an inexpensive and versatile microcontroller that is normally associated with cheap smart home devices and small DIY gadgets. But this sliver of silicon can do much more than you probably thought, as evidenced by projects that push the board to its limit. Host a web server Credit: Tech1k / GitHub HelloESP is a website hosted on a $10 ESP32 development board with a paltry 520KB of RAM. Initially deployed in 2022, the project exists to see how far a cheap microcontroller can be pushed. The original design lasted 500 days before burning out, but in mid-2026, the project…