In software development, quality is paramount, and testing is essential to ensuring this quality. However, developers frequently encounter a persistent challenge – flaky tests. These are tests that produce inconsistent results, passing or failing without any changes in configuration. They … Read more
September 21, 2022 Over on his YouTube channel “saveitforparts” has in the past created a portable homemade ‘tricorder’ which was a boxed up Raspberry Pi with multiple sensors including an RTL-SDR. One new application he’s found for the tricorder is … Read more
Installing software by piping from curl to bash is obviously a bad idea and a knowledgable user will most likely check the content first. So wouldn’t it be great if a malicious payload would only render when piped to bash? … Read more
The history of mankind is also a history of secrets, attacks and defense of the confidential. Steganography, cryptography and technical tools support us in protecting the private. The antagonists of confidentiality operate – depending on the actor – outside or … Read more
Node.js is a fantastic piece of technology, and we use it as the foundation for our application servers. There is, however, one big caveat when working with Node: our application code runs (for the most part) in a single thread … Read more
Cryptomining is expensive if you have to pay for the equipment and energy. But if you “borrow” those resources, cryptomining switches from marginal returns to entirely profit. This asymmetry is why cybercrime groups increasingly focus on cryptojacking – stealing compute … Read more