Troy Hunt's Weekly Update 518 covers his home door lock design built on Ubiquiti UniFi hardware. The design rests on four principles: mains power with no reliance on batteries, fail-secure behaviour so doors stay locked in a power outage, local control with no cloud latency, and a manual override for emergencies such as a fire. He plans t…
In Weekly Update 519, Troy Hunt describes a busy week of conference talks in Oslo and Copenhagen, including a 3D printing talk, an NDC infosec talk and a talk on cyber-related topics. He also notes that "ratbag hackers" keep dumping more data, but the excerpt names no victims, threat actors, datasets or dates. The rest covers his IoT door…
This Troy Hunt weekly update is a personal, non-security post. He describes using YouTube's automatic thumbnail generator and installing his first full Ubiquiti Access door lock with a Lockwood ES2100 electric strike. He notes the built-in door position sensor simplifies the setup and hopes Ubiquiti will add hub support for latch position…
GreyNoise reports that a single malicious cyber actor, tracked since 7 May 2026, is a suspected Chinese speaker working in UTC+8 and is the same as or related to Red Heron (reported by Acronis), based on the shared C2 domain, malware family, Gitea exploitation and other TTPs. The actor exploited the wp2shell WordPress chain (CVE-2026-6303…