Security

Secure Remote Access: Connecting to Home Assistant on RPi5 via Tailscale

Secure Remote Access: Connecting to Home Assistant on RPi5 via Tailscale

In my previous post, I shared how to install Home Assistant OS (HAOS) inside a KVM on a Raspberry Pi 5. While having a powerful local server is great, it brings up a major question: How do you access it securely from the outside?

For this setup, I wanted to achieve two specific goals:

  1. Enable a free and secure VPN for my mobile device (so I can surf safely on public Wi-Fi).
  2. Gain seamless remote access to Home Assistant without exposing any ports to the internet.

The answer to both is Tailscale.

Kippo honeypot on Cubieboard Ubuntu

Kippo is an SSH honeypot written in Python. Kippo is used to log brute force attacks and the entire shell interaction performed by an attacker so I have installed it on my cubieboard2 Lubuntu version. According to wiki a honeypot is a trap set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.

So lets start to install and test my first honeypot.