Archive for February 2016

Severe Glibc DNS Vulnerability Found

I saw this morning a notice from my local information security authority titled “GNU C -kirjastosta (glibc) löydetty vakava haavoittuvuus“. It tells that February also this year brought another nasty security issue on glibc library (last year’s vulnerability was GHOST). It is a Critical glibc (GNU C library) security issue that needs a bug fix

European Cyber Security Situation

The current situation in European Cyber Security This almost two hour long video is a part of Aalto University Kyberturvallisuus koskettaa meitä jokaista public lecture series: The current situation in European Cyber Security. This session was held at 9.2.2016 at Department of Communications and Networking. Speakers are Steve Purser (the Head of ENISA Core Operations Department)

Shell script patterns for bash

This article gives some useful patterns for writing bash scripts. For example: Fail fast in case of errors and Clean up after yourself even in unexpected situations https://barro.github.io/2016/02/shell-script-patterns-for-bash/     Posted from WordPress for Android

Why Digital Companies Grow Without Adding Employees | Kauppalehti

Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook, and Snapchat has about 350 employees. We’re all familiar with examples of small, lean digital companies that outcompete larger, established companies. But what’s even more notable is that these digital companies are staying small as business scales. Smart headcount growth that optimizes

VGA signal generation hacks

This is continuation to Interesting VGA hacks hacks posting. Interesting VGA hacks hacks was concentrated on using VGA card for nontraditional uses, this posting on the other hand concentrates on generating VGA signals with other hardware than VGA graphics card. It seems that modern microcontrollers are well suited to display information on analog VGA monitors: