• Weekly Privacy Roundup #11

    "Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else." - Glenn Greenwald Niche Dating Apps Expose 100,000s of Users in Massive Data Breach Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research… read more »
  • Build your own "V4" Solenoid Engine

    Hackaday is a big issue for my productivity: sometimes I spend hours watching videos of people with extraordinary manual skills who builds beautiful things. My new obsession is the "Solenoid engine" built by Bryan Cockfield. Bryan Cockfield is an electrical… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #11

    "Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain." – Kevin Mitnick Build Your Own Botnet - Web App I made… read more »
  • LinuxCheck: Linux information gathering tool

    LinuxCheck is a small bash script for information collection, useful for emergency response on Debian and Centos systems. Features LinuxCheck [1] is a single script able to collect a large set of information: CPU TOP10, memory TOP10 CPU usage boot… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #10

    "The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity." - Clifford Stoll Is Dark Mode Such A Good Idea? I’ve decided to stop using dark mode across all of my devices, because research suggests that going to the dark side… read more »
  • Bypass sites paywall WITHOUT addons? Is it possible?

    Yes, it is! With just a simple dot! It all began with a Reddit thread [1], in which visitors spoke about a strange bug in The New York Times paywall: Bypass the New York Times article paywall WITHOUT addons by… read more »
  • How to monitor battery healt and optimize power consumption on Windows 10 laptops without additional softwares

    Starting from Windows 8, Microsoft added a useful feature that allows users to monitor laptop battery health. To generate a Battery Report on Windows 10, simply follow this steps: Open a Command Prompt as administrator. To do that, press Windows Key + X… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #10

    "I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth." - Edward Snowden IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology IBM will no longer offer… read more »
  • Clive Thompson: The Secret History of Women in Coding

    From Ada Lovelace to the reVIVE's team, Clive Thompson traces the history of women in computer programming. In a great article for The New York Times, Clive Thompson retraces the history of women in computer science, starting from Ada Lovelace… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #10

    "The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years." – John McAfee, 1988 SMBleed: A New Critical Vulnerability Affects Windows SMB Protocol Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new critical vulnerability affecting the Server Message Block (SMB)… read more »
  • Brave tries to clarify the "referral code" issue

    Yesterday I've talked about a strange behavior in Brave Browser, which adds referral codes in URLs when users try to open a "partnered" site. Few hours later the tweet [1] by Yannick Eckl , we have the answer from Brendan… read more »
  • Brave Browser adds referral links to partnered sites?

    It appears so, even if you manually type the URL! Twitter user Cryptonator1337 discovered a strange behaviour of well known "privacy browser" Brave.When you type in "binance.us" (or "binance.com") in address bar, you end up getting redirected to "binance.us/en?ref=35089877", allegedly… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #9

    “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window” — Steve Wozniak A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hJ48LCXWs&feature=emb_title The Falcon Heavy model is a technology demonstrator for BPS.space. The intention is to showcase the advancement… read more »
  • Windows Forensic Analysis: some thoughts on RDP related Event IDs

    Recently I had to perform a forensic investigation on a server that had made some strange Remote Desktop activities.In that case, the analysis of windows events has turned out really useful. So, today I'd like to share a brief cheatsheet… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #9

    "Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows." - Edward Snowden Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network IN THE SUMMER of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive… read more »
  • Beware! A simple wallpaper image can brick your Android device

    In the past, we have often heard of some strings or files that you can send to other users to cause their iPhone/iPad to reboot.Now there’s a similar issue affecting some Android devices: a simple picture can soft-brick some Android… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #9

    "Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems" - Kevin Mitnick… read more »
  • Niles: a simple telegram bot template for Heroku

    Niles is a simple NodeJs telegram bot template, designed to run on PaaS (currently only works on Heroku). Recently I had to deploy some simple telegram bots and, in order to simplify the development and deploy process, i created a… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #8

    "I see technology as being an extension of the human body." - David Cronenberg SpaceX and Nasa postpone launch of Crew Dragon spacecraft due to bad weather Nasa was forced to abort a planned mission to the International Space Station… read more »
  • Eva Galperin: what you need to know about stalkerware

    Eva Galperin is director of cybersecurity for the online security organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to her work for EFF [1], Galperin worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley. Her best-known work is protecting global privacy and free speech.… read more »