• My Weekly RoundUp #81

    My question is, how many folds a foldable screen will able to endure? Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Facebook login allowed attackers to take-over any account A security issue in Facebook’s login procedure made it possible for attackers to take-over random accounts.… read more »
  • "The Entertainer", by Scott Joplin: my ukulele cover

    The most famous ragtime written by Scott Joplin that also appears in a famous movie, "The Sting" which Robert Redford and Paul Newman acted in. The song "The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin: is… read more »
  • My Social Media Detox, part 4: Linkedin account

    Last episode of my "Social Media Detox": today we rid of Linkedin! Why should I delete LinkedIn? As in the last post, I borrow this post by Richard Stallman, for topics concerning privacy and ethics: - LinkedIn is trying to… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #80

    A really bad week for application containers and secure email providers, and a sad news from Mars. Cybersecurity VFEmail suffers ‘catastrophic’ attack, as hacker wipes email service’s primary and backup data Disaster. There’s no other word for it.Customers of VFEmail,… read more »
  • Early Music on Ukulele: Greensleeves

    A timeless classic! "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song, found in several late-16th-century and early-17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Seeley Historical Library at… read more »
  • Abusing Group Policy Preference files for password discovery

    How attackers can exploit Group Policy Preferences file in order to discover passwords? And how SysAdmins can mitigate this vulnerability? During a penetration test or a security assessment, an important point must be the analysis of AD domain, especially the… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #79

    This week i've read a lot of article about privacy. Below a selection, plus a sad news… Privacy Home Assistant Adopter Beware: Google, Amazon Digital Assistant Patents Reveal Plans for Mass Snooping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSwQQ9n1Tw Internet giants Amazon and Google are slashing… read more »
  • Diatonic Minor Scales on Ukulele: a campanella pattern

    Today further patterns, focused on Minor scales. Like my previous article regarding a campanella pattern for major scales, you can find more theorical information on the post Major and Minor scales on Ukulele, simple patterns. Likewise the major scales, the… read more »
  • My Social Media Detox, part 3: Twitter account

    Today is Twitter's shift! Let's see how getting him out of your lives! Why should I delete Twitter? Privacy Twitter's privacy policy allow a pervasive user tracking, according this report by EFF: Contrary to the inviting “Sounds good” button to… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #78

    Interesting things in the last week! A stupid Facetime bug causes some privacy problems, Facebook facing a controversy with an iOS app and…apparently someone already knows Game Of Thrones finale! Cybersecurity Disable FaceTime Now! Bug Lets Callers Snoop On You… read more »
  • Early Music on Ukulele: Robert de Visée, "Menuet"

    In my previous post, i've written about ukulele reentrant tuning and campanella technique, and how this technique has been derived from techniques used on ancien instruments. One reader sent me an email that can be summarized with: "So, if the… read more »
  • Abusing Microsoft Exchange for privilege escalation: any user may obtain Domain Admin privileges

    The security expert Dirk-jan Mollema discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange that could be exploited by a user to become a Domain Admin. In most organisations using Active Directory and Exchange, Exchange servers have such high privileges that… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #77

    Interesting things in the last week: two singing tesla coils, some privacy concerns and…a Missile Attack Warning! Technology Seymour Cray, Father of the Supercomputer The Cray-1 was Seymour’s first design based on integrated circuits, and everything about it, from the… read more »
  • Diatonic Major Scales on Ukulele: a campanella-style pattern

    No transcription this week. Today we are dealing with technique! Likewise my previous post about diatonic scales on ukulele, I've developed a couple of patterns useful to perform major scales in Campanella Style along all fretboard. Campanella style? The campanella… read more »
  • My Social Media Detox, part 2: Instagram account

    Second step of my "social media detox": today we destroy the Instagram account! Main reasons are the same exposed for Facebook account. I'd like to add a brief quote from Richard Stallman: Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #76

    The subjects of my reads in the last week?Qubits, Collection#1, AS400, Lisp and....Game of Thrones! Sci-Fi HBO revealed Game of Thrones season 8’s premiere date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA38GCX4Tb0 As expected, HBO used Sunday Night’s premiere of the third season of True Detective… read more »
  • Family Guy Theme Song, Ukulele cover based on Jake Shimabukuro version

    The theme song of Family Guy was one of the first ukulele arrangement that i've made, and seeing it again making me feel a mix of tenderness and shame. Today i'd like to share a new version of this arrangement,… read more »
  • DNS tunneling techniques in cyberattacks

    How DNS tunneling can be used for data exfiltration? And how can be detected? DNS Tunneling is a technique that encodes data of other programs or protocols in DNS queries, including data payloads that can be added to an attacked… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #75

    After some months of rest, i've decided to star again publishing of my Weekly RoundUp. Why? That’s simple: i also started a process of Social Media Detox, that involve deactivation of my Social Network accounts. Without them, i don’t have… read more »
  • "Remember me", from "Coco": ukulele arrangement

    Remember me, though I have to say goodbyeRemember me, don't let it make you cry "Remember Me" is a song from the 2017 animated Pixar film Coco, written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. My arrangement Really simple in the… read more »