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Brink and You'll Miss It

48 — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:08:33 +0000

An Examination of “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century” It is 2024 and, looming perhaps larger than any other truth in the technology landscape, we must come to terms with the fact that technology is political. A more relevant follow-on here is that security is […]

Need A New PC? Buy One That's Prebuilt (Rather Than Building One Yourself)

54 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:38:04 +0000

Introduction In our earlier article (“TOWINAP, The Only Way Is Nuke and Pave“), we mentioned that sometimes you might be best off replacing an older-model computer once it becomes infected. When doing so, you could buy a new system pre-assembled, or you could try assembling one of your own. Depending on your level of technical […]

New Report Helps Users Bring Up a Secure Virtual Private Server Under Debian 11

90 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:57:49 +0000

Self-managed Virtual Private Servers (VPS) have made new systems cheap for technically knowledgeable people to deploy, whether for hosting a personal (“vanity”) domain, to create a remote distributed node from which to collect data, for use in working with DNSDB API or the Security Information Exchange data, or for other purposes. However, while you can […]

IPv6: You May Already Be Using It

54 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:24:02 +0000

Introduction The Internet has largely allocated all of the IPv4 addresses it has traditionally relied on, but because of clever work-arounds meant to “stretch” the currently available IPv4 address space, many people may not have been aware of that fact. Nonetheless, we all should be getting ready for the future of IPv6. Many people may […]

The Awe and Horror of Cybersecurity

54 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:42:47 +0000

Today we go on a different kind of hayride. It is October, after all; there’s a new crispness to the air, a thinness to the world’s veneer as we move towards the death of 2023, and to 2024 being born of its cold ashes. Fears carve our masks – which may be why the best […]

Understanding IPFS: Decentralized Storage in the Web3 Era

51 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:27:00 +0000

IPFS (“InterPlanetary File System”) is a key technology in the design and implementation of “Web3,” also known as the “decentralized web.” IPFS is a distributed file system that allows users to store and share files in a peer-to-peer network. It uses a content-addressed storage system, where each file is identified by a unique hash. When […]

Removing the Mask: How Neurodiversity Strengthens Cybersecurity

54 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:51:41 +0000

Nothing about us without us. If we’re going to talk about neurodiversity (ND) – or any marginalized group – we must start there. Even well-meaning initiatives without direct primary involvement of the group in question often fail due to the unknown unknowns: the hangups and landmines and invisible walls that aren’t visible unless experienced directly. […]

How To Create A Security Operations Newsletter

54 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:31:24 +0000

Communication is Key As a security operations (SecOps) engineer, my job involves many hats. One of the roles most important to the company’s overall security posture is that of communicator – I not only need to broadcast the current environment and our context within it concisely, I need to tailor that information to particular audiences […]