Frank Goossens: About Corona, Instagram and how good things can come from shit
Yesterday evening, not being able to sleep, I was going through my YouTube subscriptions and stumbled on this James Blake Corona lockdown livingroom-concert on friggin’ Instagram, of well over an hour....
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] Obfuscated with a Simple 0x0A
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Obfuscated with a Simple 0x0A“:With the current Coronavirus pandemic, we continue to see more and more malicious activity around this topic. Today, we...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Handling Malware Delivered Into .daa Files
Bad guys are always trying to use “exotic” file extensions to deliver their malicious payloads. If common dangerous extensions are often blocked by mail security gateways, there exists plenty of less...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Hey Scanners, Say “Cheese!”
One of my sources of threat intelligence is a bunch of honeypots that I’m operating here and there. They are facing the wild Internet and, as you can imagine, they get hit by many “attackers”. But are...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] PowerShell Sample Extracting Payload From SSL
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “PowerShell Sample Extracting Payload From SSL“:Another diary, another technique to fetch a malicious payload and execute it on the victim host. I...
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: Auto-restart a crashed service in systemd
Systemd allows you to configure a service so that it automatically restarts in case it’s crashed.
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Acquia retrospective 2019
Wow, what a year 2019 was for Acquia!At the beginning of every year, I like to publish a retrospective to look back and take stock of how far Acquia has come over the past 12 months. I take the time to...
View ArticleRuben Vermeersch: Rust: First Impressions
I’ve been studying the Rust Programming Language over the holidays, here are some of my first impressions. My main interest in Rust is compiling performance-critical code to WebAssembly for usage in...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Running SReview in minikube
I spent the last week or so building Docker images and a set of YAML files that allows one to run SReview, my 99%-automated video review and transcode system, inside minikube, a program that sets up a...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Happy nineteenth birthday, Drupal
Nineteen years ago today, I released Drupal 1.0.0. Every day, for the past nineteen years, the Drupal community has collaborated on providing the world with an Open Source CMS and making a difference...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Acquia a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for...
Today, for the first time in our company's history, Acquia was named a Leader in Gartner's new Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs). This is an incredible milestone for us.In 2014, I...
View ArticleLuc Stroobant: Icinga2 Ansible collection
Icinga2 Ansible collectionlucThu, 13/02/2020 - 21:03I've been using Icinga2 at various customers and on our own infrastructure since it was released. I never released the roles on Ansible Galaxy, since...
View ArticleLuc Stroobant: Tips voor thuiswerken
Tips voor thuiswerkenlucTue, 17/03/2020 - 21:19Nu de Corona maatregelen strenger en strenger worden, wordt thuiswerk stilaan de norm voor de gemiddelde kantoor werker. Voor veel mensen is dit nieuw en...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Is Open Source recession-proof?
The world is experiencing a scary time right now. People feel uncertain about the state of the world: we're experiencing a global pandemic, the OPEC is imploding, the trade war between the US and China...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Sustaining the Drupal Association in uncertain times
Today, I'm asking for your financial support for the Drupal Association. As we all know, we are living in unprecedented times, and the Drupal Association needs our help. With DrupalCon being postponed...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Migrating to Caddy 2
Last week, the first Release Candidate of Caddy 2 saw the light of day. I don’t usually like to run production environments on beta software, but for Caddy I wanted to make an exception
View ArticleMattias Geniar: How to run HTTP/3 with Caddy 2
I just migrated this webserver to Caddy 2 and with it, enabled HTTP/3 support. This post will give a short explanation how you can do that.
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Married!
If you read this post through Planet Debian, then you may already know this through "Johnathan"'s post on the subject: on the 29th of February this year, Tammy and I got married. Yes. Really. No, I...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Pledging $100,000 to support the Drupal Association
Vanessa and I have been talking about how we can help contribute to the Drupal Association, and by extension the Drupal community, in these uncertain times. We want to show our support given Drupal's...
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