• 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 »
  • My Social Media Detox, part 1: Facebook account

    Right after new year's, I've decided to start a process of "social media detox": one of my 2019 goals is to find more time left to read, study and watch movies. Of course social networks are main candidates to get… read more »
  • VBSIOC Search: a simple VBS script for IoC search on old Windows systems

    When a security incident occurs on your network, one of the most important steps of the response process is the identification of all assets involved by the attack. Once a subset of filesystem Indicator of Compromise (IoC) has been compiled,… read more »
  • "Town of Salem" leak: more than 2 million password hashes are already cracked

    ...and are available to download. Personal details of 7.6 million users of BlankMediaGames game "Town of Salem" has been stolen by an unknown attacker. Town of Salem is a browser-based game that challenges players on their ability to convincingly lie… read more »
  • Jazz Standards for Fingerstyle Ukulele

    It's available on Amazon my new book, with ten simple ukulele arrangements of famous jazz standards Ukulele is a great instrument to play jazz songs on: it is always associated with good vibes, that it makes this instrument particularly adaptable… read more »
  • Merry Christmas!

    Have you been naughty, or nice? XKCD gave us this little gem: https://xkcd.com/838/ See you back in January, with a lot of new interesting posts! … read more »
  • My Christmas present for ukulele fans

    Free download (with tabs) of four famous Christmas Songs It's about to be Christmas, I'm feeling nice and i want to share four free arrangement of famous Christmas carols. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcHem3sdZ6E Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known American… read more »