wyze Featured Wyze - An Intelligence Front Wyze is an intelligent front partially operated by the Ministry of State Security, the Chinese counterpart of the Central Intelligence Agency. It likely reports directly to the Tianjin State Security Bureau, and is also affiliated with hackers from APT 10.
wyze Wyze - Still Sending Data Back to China Wyze's recent line of thermostats have involved a mysterious partner from China, a company known as Degrii. We look into what little is known about Degrii, and follow the technical data, across the next series of posts, back to Beijing.
wyze Wyze Reboot Turning the gunsights back to Wyze Labs and unpacking nearly three years of revelations.
china Trump Social Network Advised by Chinese Investment Group The Chinese based investment firm, Arc Group (also known as Arc Capital), was listed as the sole advisor to the firm, Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) that merged with Trump Media and Technology Group this Thursday.
netsential Sarcastic Yokubaitis Impersonation Nick Caputo was a whistle blower against Data Foundry / Giganews back in 2014. Later on he wrote a sarcastic and actually quite humorous post that he uploaded to many sites. In it he pretended to be the founder of Data Foundry, Ron Yokubaitis. We reproduce it in full here.
netsential Darkness at Noon 01 - WAYTITAN Why was the National Security Agency targeting Netsential, the major hosting provider for the Department of Homeland Security? Who is behind the IP address 64.9.146.208?
Reboot We have decided to restart the blog. Begun in December 2019, these posts sought to detail large scale manipulation and hacking of the internet by People's Republic of China affiliated hackers.
Whisper Essay 1 - Guilty as Hell Whisper has exposed all user information by leaving their production database cluster open for the last several weeks.
Wyze Essay 2 - Aresflare There is no separation between government and business in China. The businesses are separate from each other to some extent. They only exist in separate departments in the same way companies like Amazon are structured.
Wyze Essay 1 - Your Information is Exposed Recently, Wyze, the fast selling consumer camera company, was breached. Personally, in ten years of sysadmin and cloud engineering, I have never encountered a breach of this magnitude.