• Weekly Tech Roundup #13

    "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds Apple, Biden, Musk and other high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in crypto scam A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used… read more »
  • SIGRed: a 17-year-old wormable vulnerability in Windows DNS server

    Last Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday addressed a 17-year-old vulnerability impacting Microsoft Windows DNS Server, tracked as CVE-2020-1350 and dubbed "SigRed" by ChekPoint's researchers. The issue received a severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003… read more »
  • Will Cathcart: the future of digital communication and privacy

    The CEO of WhatsApp talking about the future of communication and privacy? Yes, in "virtual" TED-Talk! Will Cathcart is the Head of WhatsApp. He joined Facebook in 2010 and has worked on a number of Facebook’s products, becoming Vice President… read more »
  • 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 »