Collaborate Disseminate
For some small percentage of the Hackaday crowd, our world got turned upside down at the end of last year, when Red Hat announced changes to CentOS. That distro is …read more Continue reading Rocky Linux Is Ready For Prime Time!
Raise your hand if you remember when PulseAudio was famous for breaking audio on Linux for everyone. For quite a few years, the standard answer for any audio problem on …read more Continue reading PipeWire, The Newest Audio Kid on the Linux Block
First off, Apple has issued an update for some very old devices. Well, vintage 2013, but that’s a long time in cell-phone years. Fixed are a trio of vulnerabilities, two …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Updates, Leaks, Hacking Old Hardware, And Making New
Let’s talk Alpacas. More specifically, “Application Layer Protocol Confusion – Analyzing and mitigating Cracks in tls Authentication“. Although this is definitely a case of someone wanting their name to spell …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: ALPACA, AN0M, Recovering Ransoms, and More
Another week of ransomware, and this time it’s the beef market that’s been shut down, due to a crippling infrastructure attack out of Russia — but hold up, it’s not …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Ransomware, WeLock, and Amazon Arbitration
Back when it first happened, we covered the Oroville Dam near-disaster. Heavier-than-expected rainfall in California back in early 2017 led to running the dam’s primary spillway at much higher-than-normal levels. …read more Continue reading A Look Back on the Oroville Dam with Practical Engineering
We occasionally make fun of new security vulnerabilities that have a catchy name and shiny website. We’re breaking new ground here, though, in covering a shiny website that makes fun …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: M1RACLES, The Full Half-Double, and Patch Gaps
I could probably be described as a SpaceX enthusiast. I catch their launches when I can, and I’ve watched the development of Starship with great interest. But the side-effect of …read more Continue reading Starlink: A Review and Some Hacks
In what may be a first for watering hole attacks, we’ve now seen an attack that targeted watering holes, or at least water utilities. The way this was discovered is …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Watering Hole Attackception, Ransomware Trick, and More Pipeline News
Writing a command line program that needs a little more pizzaz? Ncurses just not colorful or high res enough? Or maybe you want to bring the demo scene to the …read more Continue reading Terminal Magic With Notcurses