Why Does So Much Tech Suck?
It isn’t your imagination that your apps and gadgets seem half-baked. They are, and there is a reason why.
2020, You Know?
And I thought 2016 was a rough year…
Hope in the Midst of Darkness
I’m not going to go all Pollyanna on you. We are far from being out of the woods, but I am seeing signs that the People have had enough. They are hearing the voices of the legitimate protestors, and finally they are taking a stand.
Manual vs. Automated Tools for Digital Forensic Analysis
Highly automated GUI-interface tools are only as good as the programmers who wrote them. Additionally, they can actually prevent users from accessing certain things.
Interesting Times
I know everyone is writing, talking, and tweeting about COVID-19 these days. Please bear with me while I ramble a bit, sharing some thoughts and predictions of my own.
System Hardening 101
“Hardening” is a term used by IT professionals to describe various processes used to make computer systems more secure against different kinds of attacks.
A Brief History of Stuxnet
In 2009 something happened that had never been done before in the history of computer malware. A digital weapon was released with the express purpose of attacking specific machines and causing them to fail, sometimes spectacularly.
The Rise and Fall of RC4
RC4 is a stream cipher and variable length key algorithm, and it was once the go-to cipher suite for web encryption. Then someone figured out how to break it.