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Books You Should Read: IGNITION!

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Isaac Asimov described the business of rocket fuel research as “playing footsie with liquids from Hell.” If that piques your interest even a little, even if you do nothing else today, read the first few pages of IGNITION! which is available online for free. I bet you won’t want to stop reading.

IGNITION! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants is about how modern liquid rocket fuel came to be. Written by John D. Clark and published in 1972, the title might at first glance make the book sound terribly dry — it’s not. Liquid rocket fuel made modern rocketry …read more

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Review: Advanced Persistent Security

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About the authors Ira Winkler, CISSP is President of the Internet Security Advisors Group. He is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals. Araceli Treu Gomes is an Intelligence and Investigations Subject Matter Expert for CrowdStrike. She serves on several cybersecurity industry boards. Inside Advanced Persistent Security As businesses are finally beginning to realize that their cyber defenses can and will occasionally fail and, therefore, must continually evolve, this book couldn’t be more … More → Continue reading Review: Advanced Persistent Security→

Book Review: The Art Of The Patent

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In bringing suitable illustrations to our articles, we Hackaday scribes use a variety of sources that offer images featuring permissive licences. Among the usual free image libraries there is one particularly rich source, the line drawings contained within the huge archives of patents granted by the various countries around the world. These are the illustrations used as part of the patent itself to describe the working of the patent being claimed. We use them because though the items they depict are legally protected from copying by the patents they are part of, they as part of the patents themselves are …read more

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Review: Data Breach Preparation and Response

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About the author Kevvie Fowler is a Partner and National Cyber Response Leader for KPMG Canada and has over 19 years of IT security and forensics experience. He is a SANS lethal forensicator and sits on the SANS Advisory Board where he guides the direction of emerging security and forensics research. Inside Data Breach Preparation and Response Despite the fact that only one author is named on the book’s cover, this is a book that’s … More → Continue reading Review: Data Breach Preparation and Response→

Review: The Internet of Risky Things

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About the author Professor Sean Smith is the Principal Investigator of the Dartmouth Trust Lab and Director of Dartmouth’s Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, and investigates how to build trustworthy systems in the real world. Inside The Internet of Risky Things When we hear things like “The Internet of Things is predicted to reach 30 billion devices in 2020“, it’s hard for people to actually imagine the extent of IoT influencing their day to … More → Continue reading Review: The Internet of Risky Things→

Review: DNS Security

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About the authors Allan Liska is a Consulting Systems Engineer at FireEye, and Geoffrey Stowe is an Engineering Lead at Palantir Technologies. Inside DNS Security: Defending the Domain Name System DNS security is a topic that rarely comes up, and when it does, it’s usually after an attack or breach disruptive enough to merit a mention in the news. Last year’s DDoS attack against US-based DNS provider Dyn was one of those, but it isn’t … More → Continue reading Review: DNS Security→

Books You Should Read: The Hardware Hacker

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There’s no one quite like Andrew ‘Bunnie’ Huang. His unofficial resume begins with an EE degree from MIT, the author of Hacking the Xbox, creator of the Chumby, developer of the Novena, the first Open Source laptop, and has mentored thousands of people with dozens of essays from his blog.

Above all, Bunnie is a bridge across worlds. He has spent the last decade plying the markets of Shenzhen, working with Chinese manufacturers, and writing about his experiences of taking an idea and turning it into a product with the help of Chinese partners. In short, there is no …read more

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Wooden Puzzle Book Will Twist and Dazzle Your Brain

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In what might be one of the coolest applications of laser cutting, joinery, puzzles, writing, and bookbinding, [Brady Whitney] has created the Codex Silenda — a literal puzzle book of magnificent proportions.

[Whitney] had originally conceived the idea of the Codex for his senior thesis research project at Iowa State University, and the result is something for almost everyone. On each of the Codex’s five pages lies a mechanical puzzle that must be solved to progress to the next, while an accompanying text weaves a story as you do so. These intricate pages were designed in SolidWorks and painstakingly assembled …read more

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Wooden Puzzle Book Will Twist and Dazzle Your Brain

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In what might be one of the coolest applications of laser cutting, joinery, puzzles, writing, and bookbinding, [Brady Whitney] has created the Codex Silenda — a literal puzzle book of magnificent proportions.

[Whitney] had originally conceived the idea of the Codex for his senior thesis research project at Iowa State University, and the result is something for almost everyone. On each of the Codex’s five pages lies a mechanical puzzle that must be solved to progress to the next, while an accompanying text weaves a story as you do so. These intricate pages were designed in SolidWorks and painstakingly assembled …read more

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