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In this Help Net Security, Alexis Wales, CISO at GitHub, discusses how GitHub embeds security into every aspect of its platform to protect millions of developers and repositories, ensuring it remains a trustworthy platform for building secure software…. Continue reading GitHub CISO on security strategy and collaborating with the open-source community
Chainsaw is an open-source first-response tool for quickly detecting threats in Windows forensic artefacts, including Event Logs and the MFT file. It enables fast keyword searches through event logs and identifies threats using built-in Sigma detection… Continue reading Chainsaw: Open-source tool for hunting through Windows forensic artefacts
Organizations don’t know their software engineers’ security skills because they don’t assess them in the interview process. Trying to do that in an interview is challenging, of course, given the time it takes for a proper assessment. However, given the… Continue reading Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills
“In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider,” reports Rest of World.
“Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has b… Continue reading Starlink’s Satellite Internet is Cheaper than Leading ISPs in Five African Countries
Recently the 29.8 meter parabolic antenna at the Australian OTC (overseas telecommunications commission) station came back to life again after nearly forty years spent in decommissioning limbo. This parabolic dish …read more Continue reading Carnarvon’s Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Continue reading ISC Stormcast For Monday, January 13th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9276, (Mon, Jan 13th)
“I know, I know: ‘Year of the Linux desktop … yadda, yadda’,” writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. “You’ve heard it all before. But now there’s a Linux-powered PC that many people will want…”
He’s talking about Nvidi… Continue reading Will Nvidia Spark a New Generation of Linux PCs?
“The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure,” reports CNBC, “as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government sets its sights on becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence… Continue reading Britain Seeks to Build a Homegrown OpenAI Rival, Become a World Leader in AI
The big news story of the week of course has been the wildfires in California, which as of Saturday have burned over 30,000 acres, destroyed 12,000 structures, caused 150,000 people …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 12, 2025
Due to a “rapid expansion of solar capacity,” Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar power in 2024, reports PV magazine, “accounting for 14% of its total electricity output, according to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
“Wind pow… Continue reading Germany Hits 62.7% Renewables in 2024 Electricity Mix, with Solar Contributing 14%