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My name is Naz Markuta and I work in cyber security. This website serves as a personal blog where I share my experiences and occasional guides in various topics (mostly in IT). I鈥檝e tried to keep this blog clean and purely content focused.

Cloudflared unresolvable repository

Update 3/11/2025: The issue has now been resolved. This will probably be fixed in a few hours. As for the 7 people that actually use cloudflared (like me :P) here鈥檚 a quick fix. A cached copy of the file is available here. Public key rollover I recently tried upgrading the cloudflared package on my Fedora 42 system. But received a warning about invalid signature due to an expired key. Official documentation about a Public Key Rollover on 30th October 2025....

2 November, 2025 路 2 min 路 Naz Markuta

Unifi Gateway Ultra and IPv6 VPN

I recently upgraded my home network router from a pfSense SG-1100 to a Ubiquiti Unifi Gateway Ultra. The main reason I upgraded was because I already had a unifi switch and unifi wireless access points, and so wanted to complete the eco-system. ISP limitation My ISP uses Carrier-Grade NAT or CGN which means it uses a IPv4 network shared with other house-holds. It also means I cannot port forward services like VPNs to the Internet....

9 March, 2025 路 4 min 路 Naz Markuta

Creating offline Authy backups

Overview This post should help users who want to create offline backups of Authy TOTPs secrets, using a rooted Android device, or a patched .APK file. I wrote a python script which can be used to import and export token secrets into a standardized format, including (re)generating QR codes. I briefly cover app reversing, specifically the API endpoints for device registration. Once a device is registered, each request uses 3 OTP tokens as URL parameters that rotate every 7 seconds....

30 July, 2024 路 19 min 路 Naz Markuta

Hacking Amazon's eero 6 (part 2)

This is second part of the Hacking Amazon鈥檚 eero 6 device, which covers reading and extracting firmware data directly from a eMMC flash chip. This is after the chip had been desoldered (not by me) off the device. I also share the equipment I bought during this project, including what didn鈥檛 work and what did. You can skip to this section on modifying a BGA159 chip reader. The firmware on the eMMC at the time version v7....

27 June, 2024 路 12 min 路 Naz Markuta

How to install OpenWRT on QEMU

Overview A short blog on how to install and run the latest version of OpenWRT using QEMU, on a machine with Apple M1. This is similar to my previous blog post on How to build a Debian MIPS image on QEMU. This guide uses the OpenWRT ARMv8 edition, which runs nicely on a Apple M1 chip. It also covers how to install the LuCI web management interface. Download and Install Select and download the necessary files from the link below....

8 April, 2024 路 4 min 路 Naz Markuta