Having the right tools for the job can help you work smarter and get things done quicker.
Here I try to share some of the tools that I have picked up over the years that.
The 773 Million Record “Collection #1” Data Breach
Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I’ve called “Collection #1”.
The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys
RSA encryption allows for anyone to send me messages that only I can decode. To set this up, I select two large random primes and (each of which is hundreds of bits long), and release their product online for everyone to see; is known as my public key.
Building Microservices On .NET Core – Part 1 The Plan
I liked .NET technology from its inception. In fact I left the dark star of overxmlized J2EE development to join forces of rebellion around 2004. Over the years my team here at Altkom Software & Consulting built and maintained more and more complex business solutions for insurance and banking.
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Better, Faster, More Secure Backups With Restic
Hello again! It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog and I am resolving (pre New Year’s!) to write more. I’m starting easier by writing about a backup setup that I put in place while I’ve been on paternity leave.
Secure & Ad-free Internet Anywhere With Streisand and Pi Hole
tl;dr: ads are everywhere and aren’t so fun everyone is trying to track you (for better or worse) Pi Hole is awesome; it’s a network-level adblocker and runs on a Raspberry Pi streisand gives you a quick way to set up a censorship-resistant and secure server running a number of VPNs/proxies (Ope
Radio wave bursts from space keep hitting Earth and we don’t know why
FAST radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious, milliseconds-long showers of radio waves that come from unidentified objects outside our galaxy. About 60 FRBs have been identified to date, the strangest being a lone, repeating source. Now, it is no longer alone.
A Worldwide Hacking Spree Uses DNS Trickery to Nab Data
Iranian hackers have been busy lately, ramping up an array of targeted attacks across the Middle East and abroad.
Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers
Six million of Verizon’s US customers had their personal and account information exposed, including PIN numbers. Verizon Communications suffered a major data leak due to a misconfigured cloud server that exposed data on 6 million of its customers.
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Neural Networks and Deep Learning is a free online book. The book will teach you about: For more details about the approach taken in the book, see here. Or you can jump directly to Chapter 1 and get started.