• My Weekly RoundUp #114

    A lot of links this week! Today let's talk about #KKNPP, #DKIM, #DFIR and #TimelineExplorer, #iPhone, #Whatsapp and #NSOGroup, #Powertool, #Protonmail, #Unicredit, #linustorvalds, #guidovanrossum and #python, #themandalorian and #bladerunner. Cybersecurity It's official, administrative network at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant was… read more »
  • CVE-2019-13720: new Chrome 0-day bug exploited in the wild

    Yesterday, Google engineers released an urgent update for the Chrome browser to patch an actively exploited zero-day. The release of Chrome 78.0.3904.87 fix two high severity vulnerabilities, one affecting Chrome's audio component (CVE-2019-13720) while the other resides in the PDFium… read more »
  • The warp drive is now a little less impossible

    How feasible are Warp Drives?A new theory opens the door to the possibility of creating a real warp drive (in the future!). The trick is to make space-time travelling around the ship and not the other way around, but the… read more »
  • CPDoS in a nutshell

    Recently, a team of cybersecurity researchers from Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Hoai Viet Nguyen and Luigi Lo Iacono) has disclosed a new cache poisoning attack against CDN systems that could be used to force a website into delivering error… read more »
  • Pwnagotchi: the open source gadget for WiFi pwning!

    Remember the Tamagotchi?Simone Margaritelli/Evilsocket created the Pwnagotchi, a mix between a game from the 90s and a wardriving tool, with a touch of machine learning. Pwnagotchi is a DIY, open source gadget running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W for… read more »
  • Happy 50th Birthday, Internet!

    On October 29, 1969, a first data packet was transmitted between two computers. It was the spark that started Internet. Although the birth of the world wide web itself is twenty years later, on March 12, 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #113

    Happy Birthday, Unix! Technology Celebrating 50 years of Unix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3GADLe__M We are commemorating Unix’s anniversary with the Unix50 event, a two-day celebration that will reflect on Unix’s past and explore the future of computing. Speakers and panelists include many of… read more »
  • The American army said goodbye to floppy disks.

    Some days ago I've published a post about retrogaming: today I'd like to talk about another piece of modern art, floppy disks! In these years, when most of us have switched to USB sticks, someone has never abandoned them: the… read more »