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A new report promotes preventing cyberattacks by using memory-safe languages and the development of software safety standards. Continue reading White House Recommends Memory-Safe Programming Languages and Security-by-Design
The potential financial, operational, and reputational impact of ransomware makes it the top threat facing financial services organizations, according to a report from F-Secure. Phishing, exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) ports, and the exploitatio… Continue reading Top threats for the financial sector
WWDC 2021 is on this week and many new fun things are being introduced, including some data science-friendly additions to the frameworks that come with Xcode 13 and available on macOS 12+ (and its *OS cousins). Specifically, Apple has made tabular data… Continue reading New TabularData Available in Swift on macOS Monterery (et al)
My {cdcfluview} package started tossing erros on CRAN just over a week ago when the CDC added an extra parameter to one of the hidden API endpoints that the package wraps. After a fairly hectic set of days since said NOTE came, I had time this morning … Continue reading A {swiftr} Brief Interlude While Awaiting {cdcfluview} CRAN Checks
My {cdcfluview} package started tossing erros on CRAN just over a week ago when the CDC added an extra parameter to one of the hidden API endpoints that the package wraps. After a fairly hectic set of days since said NOTE came, I had time this morning … Continue reading A {swiftr} Brief Interlude While Awaiting {cdcfluview} CRAN Checks
There are a plethora of amazingly useful Golang libraries, and it has been possible for quite some time to use Go libraries with Swift. The advent of the release of the new Apple Silicon/M1/arm64 architecture for macOS created the need for a new round … Continue reading Making macOS Universal Apps in Swift with Universal Golang Static Libraries
The last post showed how to work with the macOS mdls command line XML output, but with {swiftr} we can avoid the command line round trip by bridging the low-level Spotlight API (which mdls uses) directly in R via Swift. If you’ve already played with {s… Continue reading Avoiding The mdls Command Line Round Trip With swiftr::swift_function()
The last post showed how to work with the macOS mdls command line XML output, but with {swiftr} we can avoid the command line round trip by bridging the low-level Spotlight API (which mdls uses) directly in R via Swift. If you’ve already played with {s… Continue reading Avoiding The mdls Command Line Round Trip With swiftr::swift_function()
Greynoise helps security teams focus on potential threats by reducing the noise from logs, alerts, and SIEMs. They constantly watch for badly behaving internet hosts, keep track of the benign ones, and use this research to classify IP addresses. Teams … Continue reading Help Your Mac Stand Between The Darkness And The Light with GreyWatch
The United States Department of Justice has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a range of cyber attacks that made headlines around the world.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading US charges North Korean hackers in relation to WannaCry, Sony Pictures attack, and an attempt to steal more than a billion dollars from banks