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Jun 23, 2020
"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 »
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Jun 22, 2020
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 »
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Jun 19, 2020
"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 »
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Jun 18, 2020
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 »
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Jun 17, 2020
"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 »
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Jun 16, 2020
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 »
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Jun 15, 2020
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 »
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Jun 12, 2020
"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 »
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Jun 11, 2020
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 »
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Jun 10, 2020
"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 »
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Jun 9, 2020
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 »
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Jun 8, 2020
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 »
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Jun 5, 2020
“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 »
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Jun 4, 2020
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 »
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Jun 3, 2020
"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 »
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Jun 2, 2020
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 »
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Jun 1, 2020
"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 »
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May 29, 2020
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 »
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May 28, 2020
"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 »
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May 27, 2020
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 »