A look into how the tech leaders may be using the new administration to achieve their own agenda. Looking specifically at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Brian Armstrong, and David Sacks as well as their relationship with figures like JD Vance, Balaji Srinivasan, and Curtis Yarvin. There is a focused discussion on Read More …
the Paramount & SkyDance Media Tender
Chats with Grmini AI The “tender” refers to the proposed $8 billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, a deal that involves Shari Redstone selling her stake in the Hollywood studio to Skydance and its backing from Red Bird Capital Partners. This merger is now facing challenges, including legal battles, and a potential rival Read More …
ASM – Attack Surface Management
Attack Surface Management (ASM) focuses on identifying, monitoring, and mitigating potential vulnerabilities and risks across an organization’s entire digital footprint, including both known and unknown assets, to reduce the potential attack surface. Here’s a more detailed explanation: Continuous Process: ASM is not a one-time task, but rather a continuous process of discovery, analysis, prioritization, remediation, Read More …
Initial Experiments is on iTunes
My album is live on iTunes! Artist: 1bluebass Album title: Initial Experiments Initial Experiments
Conference Video – Defending Against Power Shell Attacks
Dutch Power Shell User Group – 3rd Power Shell Saturday 2017-04-08
Hacker TV – What Is An XXE Attack?
XML files can incorporate inline references to other documents. Unsafe treatment of external references allows an attacker to probe your file system for sensitive information – an XML External Entity (XXE) attack.
Backyard Chickens – Clean the Coop Again
Generally you need to do a full cleaning of your backyard coop/ run/ etc. around once every 3 months. By this, I mean the area around the chickens. The nesting boxes you have to keep much cleaner. Those I try and do about once a month. This is where you chicken is going to lay Read More …
Do you really need to do that Human?
On a warm spring morning, the sun rose over the Johnson family’s backyard, revealing a perfectly manicured lawn, vibrant flowerbeds, and a gleaming new vegetable patch. The yard was the pride of the family, especially Mrs. Johnson, who had spent months cultivating it. But lurking in the coop by the fence was a group of Read More …
clean up /boot (for Ubuntu at least)
Here is a quick set of commands to clean up the /boot partition on an Ubuntu linux system. First check what your kernel version is so you won’t delete the running kernel image: uname -r Now run this for a list of installed kernels: dpkg –list ‘linux-image*’ | grep ^ii delete the kernels you don’t Read More …
What are the advantages of FASP
The speed increases are achieved by sending larger packets than TCP, not waiting for confirmation that a packet has been received before sending the next one, and only re-sending packets that are confirmed as having been dropped. FASP (Fast and Secure Protocol), used in IBM Aspera, offers significant advantages for cloud data transfer, enabling faster, Read More …