Introduction to the concept of dark patterns used in websites and apps.

Grafana 8.0 was released. Among other improvements, it centralizes alerting information, introduces library panels and real-time streaming.

»ALPACA is an Application layer protocol content confusion attack, exploiting TLS servers implementing different protocols but using compatible certificates, such as multi-domain or wildcard certificates. Attackers can redirect traffic from one subdomain to another, resulting in a valid TLS session.«

The encrypted device company ANOM, developed and operated by the FBI, was used to route messages to an FBI-owned server and decrypted with a master key.

»A weird tour through Git and some of its internals.«

Not only are the capabilities of boring technology well understood, but more importantly, their failure modes, too.

Example step-by-step guide for introducing data model changes.

Paper on SeKVM, a modified version of KVM, that guarantees data confidentiality and integrity.

Incident Report on Fastly's service disruption this week.

Web server scanner.

Open-source remote desktop software for Linux.

»Terraform v1.0.0 intentionally has no significant changes compared to Terraform v0.15.5. You can consider the v1.0 series as a direct continuation of the v0.15 series; we do not intend to issue any further releases in the v0.15 series, because all of the v1.0 releases will be only minor updates to address bugs.«

In this 10-minute video, one of the authors summarizes the issues with silent silicon data corruption presented in their »Cores that don't count paper«.