• Weekly Privacy Roundup #10

    "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 »
  • Clive Thompson: The Secret History of Women in Coding

    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 »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #10

    "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 »
  • Brave tries to clarify the "referral code" issue

    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 »
  • Brave Browser adds referral links to partnered sites?

    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 »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #9

    “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 »
  • Windows Forensic Analysis: some thoughts on RDP related Event IDs

    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 »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #9

    "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 »