• Multiple Parsing Vulnerabilities on Symantec Decomposer Engine: millions of users at risk!

    A lot of enterprise and home Symantec users are open to remote code execution vulnerabilities reported by Google’s Project Zero. These vulnerabilities don’t require any user interaction on a software that runs at the highest privilege levels possible: in certain cases… read more »
  • Opportunity sends us a panoramic photo of ‘Marathon Valley’ on Mars

    Marathon Valley, seen through the robotic eyes of Opportunity http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA20749 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ has published a very high resolution (17.000x6000 pixels) image of Marathon Valley on Mars surface. The image is a merge of multiple pancam exposures taken during the period April… read more »
  • Game of Thrones Season 6 finale — “The Winds of Winter”

    A great episode, a great season finale… …a great soundtrack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFK0yG8xG5I Ramin Djawadi From Wikipedia: Ramin Djawadi (Persian: رامین جوادی‎‎; born July 19, 1974) is a German-Iranian composer. Djawadi is best known for his Grammy-nominated, guitar-heavy score for the 2008 Marvel… read more »
  • The 10 golden rules from the NASA programmers

    How programmers write mission-critical code at NASA? To help them to write code clean, easy to understand and error-proof, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has published a document with 10 rules for developing software, named “The Power of Ten–Rules for Developing Safety… read more »
  • BGP Hijacking: current state and future developments

    The BGP hijacking is the illegitimate takeover of groups of IP addresses by corrupting Internet routing tables. Autonomous Systems On the Internet any host, identified by its unique IP address, can talk to any other, anywhere in the world: this… read more »
  • Editor war…

    Just for fun! https://www.facebook.com/nixcraft/photos/a.431194973560553.114666.126000117413375/1337662246247150/ From Wikipedia: Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (Vim) text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community. Many… read more »
  • Selfrando: a technique that secures Tor Browser against unmasking exploits

    TOR tries to resist to FBI attacks with a new project Apparently, the FBI seem capable to discover real address of the users of the Tor Network, and many experts are trying to win legal battles to force FBI to confess… read more »
  • 10 essential free online tools for Network tests and Malware analysis

    A short reasoned selection from my bookmarks RobTex DNSLookup, Domain informations,Network informations [embed]https://www.robtex.com/[/embed] Shodan Search engine used to find Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices around the world: reports open port and services. [embed]https://www.shodan.io/[/embed] Network-Tools.com Several online services, including domain… read more »
  • A ransomware composed entirely of JavaScript?

    Security researcher Lawrence Abrams has noticed a new ransomware strain composed entirely of JavaScript. The ransomware, dubbed RAA, has been circulating through attachments masquerading as Word .doc files according to this post on Lawrence’s site BleepingComputer.com: RAA is currently being distributed… read more »
  • Person Of Interest 5x13 — “Return 0”

    Endings are hard, but Person of Interest managed get its ending just right! #include <stdio.h>#include <limits.h> #define R INT_MAX int main(){ char myreview[R] = "The series finale delivered a satisfying ending to a great show that became so much more than… read more »
  • Quantum Computers Explained

    Where are the limits of human technology? And can we somehow avoid them? This is where quantum computers become very interesting https://quantumfrontiers.com/2013/08/22/the-most-awesome-animation-about-quantum-computers-you-will-ever-see/ Entertaining and informative video about quantum computers, made by Kurzgesagt: In normal computers, bits are the smallest unit… read more »
  • Let’s Encrypt and Certbot: simple and free HTTPS for every website

    But, it’s too simple? http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/06/13/the-end-of-an-expensive-era/ Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. The idea being that it’s high time more websites had a simple, easy to manage method to offer https encryption: The… read more »
  • Game of Thrones S06E09 — “Battle of the Bastards”

    You’re going to die tomorrow, Lord Bolton. Sleep well. The budget for CGI spared during this season was spent all in this epic episode: excellent storyline, direction and editing almost cinematic. Highlights “My reign has just begun.” Daenerys and Yara: girl… read more »
  • Open Source Ukulele Project

    What happened to the ukulele transcriptions published on the old blog? Some weeks ago I’ve migrated my blog in a Medium’s Pubblication. Some people have written to me asking: “But, what happened to the ukulele transcriptions published on the old blog?”… read more »
  • Firefox Security Toolkit — A Tool that Transforms Firefox Browsers into a Penetration Testing Suite

    A simple tool that transforms a Firefox Browsers into a penetration testing suite Firefox Security Toolkit is a bash script that downloads the most important extensions (also downloads Burp Suite certificate and a large user-agent list for User-Agent Switcher), and installs… read more »
  • Seriously? US Defense Department runs the Nuclear Arsenal using floppy disks?

    The U.S. Defense Department is still using 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation’s nuclear forces. According to a report from the US Governmental Accountabilty Office, major governmental agencies use IT systems that… read more »
  • Person of Interest, Season 5, Episode 12: “.exe”

    TheMachine got the driver license? How excite the geeky side of the spectators?Put a scene with which Harold Finch that travels on a Tesla Model S, driven by TheMachine. The Snowden’s Router Another deeply nerd moment: Shaw and Reese recovers, in… read more »
  • John Williams: the making of “The Seville Concert”

    In November 1992 John Williams has recorded “The Seville Concert”: let’s take a look to the “making-of” In November 1993, on british TV was airing “The Seville Concert”: in this concert (perhaps more properly a recording session, since no audience… read more »
  • Game of Thrones 6x08: “No One”

    The Blackfish dies offscreen? The Hound teaches us that the offscreen deaths are not reliable! Episode highlights The Mountain: rips a man’s head with his bare hands [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx1t8zwVbRU[/embed] The Hound: responds to the brotherhood’s carnage with philosophy. Cersei: was disappointed… read more »
  • 15 Signs You’re in Love With Running? But also no!

    I’m sure: i’m an unusual runner On my Facebook stream, recently has showed up this link: 15 Signs You’re in Love With Running: Whether it’s the thrill of crossing a finish line, the euphoric feeling you get when you’ve completed a… read more »