• The history of the world according to cats

    Okay, it's Friday. Today we're talking about a light and funny topic: yes, we talk about cats! The domestication of the modern house cat can be traced back to at the Neolithic era. Neolithic farmers stored grain in large pits… read more »
  • iptables: a simple cheatsheet

    Whether you’re a novice user or a system administrator, iptables is a mandatory knowledge! iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and later packet filtering ruleset.When a connection tries to establish itself on your… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #91

    Strange weekend for Firefox users... Technology Firefox Addons Being Disabled Due to an Expired Certificate Mozilla Firefox users are discovering that all of their addons were suddenly disabled. It turns out that this is being caused by an expired intermediary… read more »
  • Matteo Carcassi, "Andantino in C": a simple Ukulele arrangement

    Matteo Carcassi was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.Born in Florence, Carcassi also studied the piano, but learned guitar when still a child: he quickly gained a reputation as a virtuoso concert guitarist. This simple study is taken from the… read more »
  • RaiPlayDL: a python script to automatically download and merge RaiPlay Radio Podcasts

    RaiPlay is the online platform of italian national broadcast company RAI: on this platform a big amount of interesting contents are freely available. A special section is dedicated to radio channels, with a lot of good (italian) audio tracks: documentary,… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #90

    DockerHUB had some trouble… Privacy Alexa, stop being creepy! Our letter to Jeff Bezos Dear Mr. Bezos, We are writing to call for your urgent action regarding last week’s report[1] in Bloomberg, which revealed that Amazon has been employing thousands… read more »
  • Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

    This TED Talk by Glenn Greenwald is really inspiring. Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald… read more »
  • How to mount a Azure's VHD disk image on Linux

    I just recently to perform a forensic analysis on a compromised Microsoft Azure VM, and I'd like to share a couple of useful tips. The first step is the download of disk image of the VM.Pretty simple: Azure dashboard allows… read more »