Category: Cybersecurity
Everything filed under Cybersecurity.
2018 IEEE Security & Privacy (Filtered) Paper Dump
The 2018 IEEE Security & Privacy Conference is in May but they've posted their full proceedings and it's better to grab them early than to wait for it to become part of a paid journal…
Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package
The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be…
"Black"/"Cyber" Tips (a.k.a. How the hrbrgrinch ruined Christmas shopping)
NOTE: This is mainly for those of us in the Colonies, but some tips apply…
Armchair Quarterbacking Systemic Organization and Industry Failures
insert(post, "{ 'standarddisclaimer' : 'My opinion, not my employer\'s'…
Rpad Domain Repurposed To Deliver Creepy (and potentially malicious) Content
I was about to embark on setting up a background task to sift through R package PDFs for traces of functions that "omit NA values" as a surprise present for Colin Fay and Sir…
Think Twice Before Using Ohmconnect
I listen to @NPR throughout the day (on most days) and a story on Ohmconnect piqued my interest (it aired 5 days prior to this post). The TLDR on Ohmconnect is that it ostensibly helps you save energy by making you more aware of…
This is not cool.
First it was OpenDNS selling their souls (and, [y]our data) to Cisco (whom I don't trust at all with my…
Slaying CIDR Orcs with Triebeard (a.k.a. fast trie-based 'IPv4-in-CIDR' lookups in R)
The insanely productive elf-lord, @quominus put together a small package (triebeard) that exposes an API for radix/prefix tries at both the R and Rcpp levels. I know he had some personal needs for this and we both kinda need these to…
Clandestine DNS lookups with gdns
Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which "enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups". The REST API they provided was…
iptools 0.4.0 released into the wild (i.e. is hitting the CRAN mirrors today)
The iptools package—a toolkit for manipulating, validating and testing IP addresses and ranges, along with datasets relating to IP addresses—is flying through the internets and hitting a CRAN mirror near you,…