• Weekly Privacy Roundup #13

    "Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm." - Chelsea Manning Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment… read more »
  • Using .lnk files as zero-touch downloaders

    In a good post on SANS ISC InfoSec Forum, Jan Kopriva shows how windows explorer shell links could be used by an attacker in order to download malicious payloads. Probably anyone who has used any modern version of Windows is… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #13

    “Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in… read more »
  • pySchö: algorithmic music composition

    In a previous post, I have talked about a python script used to generate random music starting from a single number (a "seed"). So, today I'd like to share with you pyScho. The name is a contraction of "Python" and… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #12

    "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom" - Isaac Asimov Get more from Wikipedia — try reading about a subject in a different language For a broader take, consider looking… read more »
  • "Elements": an experiment on algorithmic composition

    After some experiments with machine learning and music, I also tried algorithmic composition. According to Wikipedia [1], Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been… read more »
  • Wietze Beukema: almost 300 Windows 10 executables are vulnerable to DLL hijacking

    I've already written about DLL Hijacking, but today I'd like to share a really interesting research by Wietze Beukema. Researcher discovered that almost 300 Windows 10 executables are still vulnerable to DLL hijacking. The hijacking techniques covered by the Beukema's… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #12

    "I would rather be without a state than without a voice" - Edward Snowden TikTok seems to be copying and pasting your clipboard with every keystroke A new privacy feature in iOS 14 has revealed that TikTok is copying the… read more »