Compliant, easy and actionable integration of VirusTotal in 3rd-party products – Welcome VT Augment

TL;DR: We are releasing an official, compliant and recommended method for displaying VirusTotal context in 3rd-party products and services, so that end-users can enjoy a single pane of glass experience when working with their tools of choice. Read the … Continue reading Compliant, easy and actionable integration of VirusTotal in 3rd-party products – Welcome VT Augment

Chris Gammell Talks Circuit Toolboxes

Chris Gammell wants to know: What’s in your circuit toolbox?

Personally, mine is somewhat understocked. I do know that in one of my journals, probably from back in the 1980s, I scribbled down a schematic of a voltage multiplier I had just built, with the classic diode and capacitor ladder topology. I probably fed it from a small bell transformer, and I might have gotten a hundred volts or so out of it. I was so proud at the time that I wrote it down for posterity with the note, “I made this today!”

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JQuery File Upload Flaw Highlights Security Challenges with Code Reuse

A serious remote code execution vulnerability in a popular jQuery widget turned out to have widespread implications, as the code has been forked, modified and used in thousands of other projects. The use of third-party libraries and components in deve… Continue reading JQuery File Upload Flaw Highlights Security Challenges with Code Reuse

Open Your Garage Door With Your Smartphone

The eternal enemy of [James Puderer]’s pockets is anything that isn’t his smartphone. When the apartment building he resides in added a garage door, the forces of evil gained another ally in the form of a garage door opener. So, he dealt with the insult by rigging up a Raspberry Pi to act as a relay between the opener and his phone.

The crux of the setup is Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) — a Google service that allows messages to be sent to devices that generally have dynamic IP addresses, as well as the capacity to send messages upstream, …read more

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