Weekly roundup – April 28th
Topics: Free MS ebooks, Xamarin podcast, cloud server in 55 sec., squash your PNGs, Heartbleed fallout, RDP from Android.
Tag «security»
Weekly roundup – April 14, 2014
Telecommuting tips, update OpenSSL, the end of crapware?, Git tutorials, free education, ideas into products, humanize numbers, better Datetimes, a Git GUI.
Weekly roundup, 2-21-2014
My friend Dan recently asked Has anyone already written the code to use the AVR on the Gertboard for the Raspberry Pi as a simple GPIO expansion/demux? I don’t have an answer for him, but maybe you do, or know somebody who does? Seattle to sport one of the first Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S. …
Weekly roundup 2-14-2014
I’m going to try something new, in an effort to both share things I find out about and write more. Each week I’ll compile a list of cool and/or useful tools, information, tips, etc. and post them here each Friday: Listened to a great Hanselminutes podcast interview with Model View Culture – A new media …
The lessons in Mat Honan’s terrible, horrible, awful day
There’s been a lot of good discussion around the recent hacking of a high-profile columnist for Wired. What are the key lessons, though? This article attempts to distill the most important advice we’ve learned from Mat Honan’s experience.
Security best practices in the real world
I recently had a discussion with a co-worker regarding physical security. Our two departments share a small building with 9 offices. Each of us has a key to the building, a key to our own office, and a key to a shared storage room nearby. This co-worker was gathering feedback for a proposal he was …
Tool: DNS Benchmark
Steve Gibson, the host of Security Now, has published a new freeware tool; DNS Benchmark. Like all of Steve’s freeware, it’s a stand-alone executable (great for USB drives) and is very compact – at less than 200k. I haven’t tried out this final release, but did experiment with an early version. It’s a great tool …