Time to upgrade your monitor. Is it? When you are getting older, your eyes kind can’t keep up with all those tiny words on a very high-density monitor. For me, a 1080p type works pretty well in most of the cases. According to the DPI Calculator, 100 or so PPI seems to fit me well. But guess what, the world […]
In a webnar that details how MegaCortex, the most recent Ransomware, attacks the network, the presenter from Sophos briefly introduced how Ransomware evolved over the years, way back from 1989 when an AIDS trojan was spread by 20K floppy disks via postal office to most recent years attacks including WannaCry in 2017 and MegaCortex in 2019. Guess how many type […]
Back to the old days when everything goes through the classic SMTP, nothing gets protected. Those were the good days for any man in the middle, picking up confidential information like free gift. Not anymore with the use of TLS, StartTLS, or even better S/MIME which is suitable for your most sensitive information. Every email sent through TLS is encrypted […]
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are different methods to authenticate your email to serve one dedicated purpose, detecting forged sender addresses in emails used in phishing or spam. SPF, Sender Policy Framework, allows the receiver to check that an email claiming from a specific domain comes from an IP address authorized by that domain’s admin. A typical SPF record is a […]
On https://osintframework.com/: OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources. The intention is to help people find free OSINT resources. Some of the sites included might require registration or offer more data for $$$, but you should be able to get at least a portion of the available information for no cost. I originally created this framework […]
It’s a perfect DIY project with built-in AI, brought to you by Google. The Voice Kit was launched last year and was a huge success. It lets you build your own natural language processor and connect it to the Google Assistant. All fits in a handy little cardboard cube powered by a Raspberry Pi. The release of version 2 upgrades the […]
Dots don’t matter is a feature Google has put on Gmail, meaning If someone accidentally adds dots to your address when emailing you, you’ll still get that email. For example, if your email is [email protected], you own all dotted versions of your address: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The intention of this is good but it also opens a door for a phishing […]
Here is a list of good writeups, by a couple awesome security experts, Troy Hunt & Scott Helme, about https, SSL, HSTS, encryption, DV, EV, OV, and anything related to that matter. Life is about to get a whole lot harder for websites without HTTPS – Troy Hunt It’s taken us a while, but finally we’re getting to a “secure […]