Get Statistical About Your Pet With This Cat Tracking Dashboard

Cats can be wonderful companions, but they can also be aloof and boring to hang out with. If you want to get a little more out of the relationship, consider obsessively tracking your cat’s basic statistics with this display from [Matthew Sylvester].

The build is based around the Seeedstudio ReTerminal E1001/E1002 devices—basically an e-paper display with a programmable ESP32-S3 built right in. It’s upon this display that you will see all kinds of feline statistics being logged and graphed. The data itself comes from smart litterboxes, with [Matthew] figuring out how to grab data on weight and litterbox usage via APIs. In particular, he’s got the system working with PetKit gear as well as the Whisker Litter Robot 4. His dashboard can separately track data for four cats and merely needs the right account details to start pulling in data from the relevant cat cloud service.

For [Matthew], the build wasn’t just a bit of fun—it also proved very useful. When one of his cats had a medical issue recently, he was quickly able to pick up that something was wrong and seek the help required. That’s a pretty great result for any homebrew project. It’s unrelated, too, but Gnocci is a great name for a cat, so hats off for that one.

We’ve featured some other fun cat-tracking projects over the years, too. If you’re whipping up your own neat hardware to commune with, entertain, or otherwise interact with your cat, don’t hesitate to let us know on the tipsline.

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MITRE pubblica la lista delle TOP25 debolezze software più pericolose del 2025

Il MITRE ha reso pubblica la classifica delle 25 più pericolose debolezze software previste per il 2025, secondo i dati raccolti attraverso le vulnerabilità del national Vulnerability Database. Tali vulnerabilità sono state individuate analizzando 39.080 record di Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)riportati nell’anno in corso, al fine di segnalare le cause principali.

L’aumento delle minacce informatiche ha elevato l’importanza della classifica annuale, la quale elaborata in base a dati CVE reali, permette una più efficace identificazione e riduzione dei rischi all’interno delle organizzazioni.

Gli aggressori possono assumere il controllo del sistema, sottrarre dati sensibili o compromettere le applicazioni a causa di questi difetti pervasivi, che sono spesso facilmente individuabili e sfruttabili.

La classifica CWE Top 25 può aiutare a:

• Riduzione delle vulnerabilità : le informazioni sulle cause comuni alla radice forniscono un feedback prezioso per la pianificazione SDLC e architettonica dei fornitori, contribuendo a eliminare intere classi di difetti (ad esempio, sicurezza della memoria, iniezione)
• Risparmio sui costi : meno vulnerabilità nello sviluppo del prodotto significano meno problemi da gestire dopo la distribuzione, con conseguente risparmio di denaro e risorse
• Analisi delle tendenze : la comprensione delle tendenze dei dati consente alle organizzazioni di concentrare meglio gli sforzi di sicurezza
• Informazioni sullo sfruttabilità : alcune debolezze, come l’iniezione di comandi, attirano l’attenzione degli avversari, consentendo di stabilire le priorità del rischio.
• Fiducia del cliente : la trasparenza nel modo in cui le organizzazioni affrontano queste debolezze dimostra impegno per la sicurezza del prodotto

Le vulnerabilità legate alla sicurezza della memoria, come i buffer overflow, sono ricorrenti, il che sta portando all’adozione di linguaggi più sicuri come Rust. Nello stesso tempo, le applicazioni web devono far fronte a minacce e problemi di autenticazione. Inoltre, le vulnerabilità come Use After Free, rientranti nella categoria KEV, richiedono l’implementazione di un modello di controllo basato sullo zero-trust.

È fondamentale che le organizzazioni esaminino i propri codici in base a questo elenco, incorporino le verifiche CWE nelle loro pipeline di integrazione continua, insistano con i fornitori per garantire la trasparenza e sfruttino i contratti per imporre ai fornitori l’applicazione di standard rigorosi per la scrittura di codice sicuro..

L'articolo MITRE pubblica la lista delle TOP25 debolezze software più pericolose del 2025 proviene da Red Hot Cyber.

User Serviceable Parts

Al and I were talking on the podcast about the Home Assistant home automation hub software. In particular, about how devilishly well designed it is for extensibility. It’s designed to be added on to, and that makes all of the difference.
That doesn’t mean that it’s trivial to add your own wacky control or sensor elements to the system, but that it’s relatively straightforward, and that it accommodates you. If your use case isn’t already covered, there is probably good documentation available to help guide you in the right direction, and that’s all a hacker really needs. As evidence for why you might care, take the RTL-HAOS project that we covered this week, which adds nearly arbitrary software-defined radio functionality to your setup.

And contrast this with many commercial systems that are hard to hack on because they are instead focused on making sure that the least-common-denominator user is able to get stuff working without even reading a single page of documentation. They are so focused on making everything that’s in-scope easy that they spend no thought on expansion, or worse they actively prevent it.

Of course, it’s not trivial to make a system that’s both extremely flexible and relatively easy to use. We all know examples where the configuration of even the most basic cases is a nightmare simply because the designer wanted to accommodate everything. Somehow, Home Assistant has managed to walk the fine line in the middle, where it’s easy enough to use that you don’t have to be a wizard, but that you can make it do what you want if you are, and hence it got spontaneous hat-tips from both Al and myself. Food for thought if you’re working on a complex system that’s aimed at the DIY / hacker crowd.

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