Mattias Geniar: Staying Safe Online – A short guide for non-technical people
The post Staying Safe Online – A short guide for non-technical people appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Help, my computer's acting up!If you know a thing or two about computers, chances are you've got an...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Second set of speaker interviews
We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track speakers. The following interviews give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics: Benedict Gaster...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Who’s Attacking Me?
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Who’s Attacking Me?“.I started to play with a nice reconnaissance tool that could be helpful in many cases – offensive as well as defensive. “IVRE”...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Printeurs, l’épopée d’un feuilleton
Un soir d’août 2013, je me mis à écrire un début d’histoire qui me trottait dans la tête. Il est toujours difficile de dire d’où proviennent les idées mais peut-être avais-je fait évoluer « Les...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Backup Files Are Good but Can Be Evil
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Backup Files Are Good but Can Be Evil“.Since we started to work with computers, we always heard the following advice: “Make backups!”. Everytime you...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Bill Evans’ Peace Piece
Although I feel time has not been kind to Laurent Garnier’s music (it sounds rather dated now, but it could just as well be me getting old), but I do love listening to his “It is what it is”-radioshow...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Guided sightseeing tours
If your non-geek partner and/or kids are joining you to FOSDEM, they may be interested in spending some time exploring Brussels while you attend the conference. Like previous years, FOSDEM is...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: WordPress to get secure, cryptographic updates
The post WordPress to get secure, cryptographic updates appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Exciting work is being done with regards to the WordPress auto-update system that allows the WordPress team to sign...
View ArticleSerge van Ginderachter: Ansible Inventory 2.0 design rules
This is my third post in the Ansible Inventory series. See the first and the second posts for some background information.Preliminary note: in this post, I try to give an example of a typical...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Acquia retrospective 2016
As my loyal blog readers know, at the beginning of every year I publish a retrospective to look back and take stock of how far Acquia has come over the past 12 months. If you'd like to read my previous...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview
The post Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This is quite a fascinating document highlighting everything (?) Google does to keep its infrastructure safe.And to...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Despite revoked CA’s, StartCom and WoSign continue to sell...
The post Despite revoked CA’s, StartCom and WoSign continue to sell certificates appeared first on ma.ttias.be.As it stands, the HTTPs "encrypted web" is built on trust. We use browsers that trust that...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Starting with sponsorships for this blog
The post Starting with sponsorships for this blog appeared first on ma.ttias.be.For the last few years I've always had some kind of advertising on this blog. At first, it was Google Adsense, which I've...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: How to make Autoptimize (even) faster
Less blogposts here lately, mostly because I’m doing custom Autoptimize-development for a partner (more on that later) and because I get a lot of support-questions on the wordpress.org support forums...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Create a SOCKS proxy on a Linux server with SSH to bypass...
The post Create a SOCKS proxy on a Linux server with SSH to bypass content filters appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Are you on a network with limited access? Is someone filtering your internet traffic,...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Les pistes cyclables n’existent pas, ce sont des parkings !
Ceci est le billet 1 sur 2 dans la série Les pistes cyclablesÀ force de parcourir le brabant-wallon à vélo, j’ai eu une révélation : les pistes cyclables n’existent pas, ce sont tout simplement des...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Les pistes cyclables n’existent pas, ce sont des routes !
Ceci est le billet 2 sur 2 dans la série Les pistes cyclablesJe pensais avoir découvert la vérité : les pistes cyclables seraient en fait des parkings. Mais j’ai réalisé que ce n’était pas vrai. Les...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Third set of speaker interviews
With only two weeks left until FOSDEM 2017, we have added some new interviews with our main track speakers, varying from a keynote talk about Kubernetes through cryptographic functions based on Keccak...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Return of the Unauthenticated, Unfirewalled protocols
The post Return of the Unauthenticated, Unfirewalled protocols appeared first on ma.ttias.be.People are starting to realise that having insecure, unauthenticated and unfirewalled services running on...
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