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Apr 14, 2020
In an interesting article on The MIT Press Reader, Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum discuss how opting out of surveillance is practically useless, and suggests to use data obfuscation as a better alternative. I suggest to read the whole article,… read more »
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Apr 13, 2020
Happy (quarantined) Easter! Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. The news was reported… read more »
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Apr 10, 2020
Don't worry, 5G did not cause Coronavirus! https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1246125769539162113 How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet It started with one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general… read more »
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Apr 9, 2020
My regular readers already knows that my favorite desktop environment on Linux is i3.However, let's face it, the UI of the default theme of lockscreen tool (i3lock) is hawful. Luckily, i3lock provides some command line options, such us the -i… read more »
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Apr 8, 2020
Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion - Mikko Hypponen Twitter warns users – Firefox might hold on to private messages A bit of a brouhaha erupted at the end of last week – it wasn’t quite an… read more »
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Apr 7, 2020
Some weeks ago, i've published a post about a research on Telegram Messenger by HackerFactor.The post got a lot of visit, so today i'd like to share a similar analysis, this time focused on WhatsApp calls. The analysis [1], made… read more »
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Apr 6, 2020
Remote work, 5th week! Microsoft: Emotet Took Down a Network by Overheating All Computers Microsoft says that an Emotet infection was able to take down an organization's entire network by maxing out CPUs on Windows devices and bringing its Internet… read more »
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Apr 3, 2020
It's Friday! Let's talk about Minecraft, Books, Space Movies AI and Robots! xkcd: Pathogen Resistance Automated decision-making systems and the fight against COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic rages throughout the world, many are wondering whether and how to use automated… read more »