If you’re like most people, your answer to this is… “What? Why?” When ssh was introduced back…
I recently came across Staying safe with .NET containers on Hacker News. It’s an excellent post that goes into…
Database systems typically give users the ability to trade off correctness for performance. In distributed systems, there…
Say you run an online book store and want to build a data pipeline that figures out…
For those who don’t follow Swift’s development, ABI stability has been one of its most ambitious projects…
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In a time full of ransomware as well as Advanced persistent Thread (APT) incidents the importance of…
This article series will be a summary of about a decade of unpublished research I am trying…
A couple of years ago I participated in a red-team exercise with a company involved in hardware…
This blog post is an in-depth dive into the security features of the Intel/Windows platform boot process….
A while ago, I’ve been working on a very large codebase that consisted of a few million…
Proof of concept …for a C# binary that When executed… Executes an encrypted payload in memory without…
I love when my current problem can be solved with a state machine. They’re fun to design…
In his classic paper How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus Butler Lampson laid out a pattern…
For several reasons, emulation has always fascinated me. A program that executes other programs sounds like such…
In what’s a novel supply chain attack, a security researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies’…
This is an excellent piece found here. Detailing production grade tooling and real world scenarios. – Mozilla…
To be able to trust cloud computing, you need to be able to trust it less. Here’s…
In light of the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack, I decided to take a quick look at…
This post is about a VirtualBox VM escape exploit that existed in VirtualBox 6.1.16 on Windows. Many…
Contents hide 1 Key Takeaways 2 The Web Handler 3 Always Measure 4 First Iteration 5 Immutability…
In previous posts we wrote about our configuration distribution system Quicksilver and the story of migrating its storage engine to…
This post originally appears here One of the great arts of software engineering is making updates and…
This post originally appears here Cloudflare’s network processes more than fourteen million HTTP requests per second at…
2020 saw an unprecedented increase in the importance and value of digital services and infrastructure. From the…