Bit of a shot in the dark - I just got a half dozen alerts for accounts which have supposedly been found with valid credentials on the dark web....

Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email notifications are sent, and databases are cleaned up, among other things. Over the years, both the number of cron scripts and the amount of data these scripts process have increased. While gen...

Cluster Crashes, Battling Complexity, Scaling, Power Of Helm, Tracing & Observability, From Self-Managed On AWS To Managed On AKS, And More

"No one hacks at DEFCON any more." is what I've heard. That is, until now. Seedboxes/seedhosts are used by thousands of pirates to download and distribute Movies/TV/Music via USENET and Torrents. The thing is, these systems are horribly insecure. Like, they are wide open. In this talk, I am going to...

Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.

Over the years, we’ve seen a good number of interfaces used for computer monitors, TVs, LCD panels and other all-things-display purposes. We’ve lived through VGA and the large variety o…

Threat intelligence is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity and, in recent years, chat forums such as Discord have become a significant source of threat data. Unit 221B’s Chief Legal Officer, Mark Rasch, outlines how to effectively leverage threat intelligence from chat forums in this blog post.

A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.

This blog post discusses the dangers of celebrity status in the digital age. Online harassment, cyberbullying, impersonation, revenge porn, doxxing, deepfakes, and account takeovers are just some of the threats that plague individuals with a big online presence and they're up against many legal chal...

Was having a conversation with a founder earlier today and the topic of hiring functional leaders came up. I offered one of my common pieces of advice which was don’t hold the reins too tightly once you hire them. It’s something I see happen over and over to first time founders. You hire a new VP of...

And it only took 21 hours. Linux 6.4 has a bug where it hangs on boot, but probably only 1 in 1000 boots (and rarer if using Intel hardware for some reason). It’s surprising to me that no one…