Mechanical furniture has a diverse and well-documented history. These marvels of engineering were marriages of ingenuity and craftsmanship, and were as mechanically complex as they were beautiful. Whether they were utilitarian and make life a little easier…

dystroy - blog

Fifteen-bell chime at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Here are some of the most interesting things I learned this year.

Control any computer remotely. Contribute to jetkvm/kvm development by creating an account on GitHub.

The department was notified Dec. 8 by a third-party software provider, BeyondTrust, that a hacker had gained access to a security key, which allowed the intruder to override certain security protocols.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the nature of work, yet there is limited empirical evidence on how it affects demand for human skills. This paper examines whether AI adoption...

Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical texts

When an author of one of the pieces that I mock shows up, I try to bump them up to the top of the queue. No matter how crackpotty they are, I think that if they’ve gone to the trouble to come…

In this article, I’ll walk you through how I identified over 30 BOLA (Broken Object Level Authorization) and IDOR (Insecure Direct Object…

ZAGG Inc., a well-known provider of mobile device accessories, has confirmed a data breach that compromised customers’ credit card…

Hacking 101: Finding IP Address of Websites Behind WAFs

Airports —  That transient purgatory where overpriced sandwiches coexist with free Wi-Fi — a true modern-day siren song. One minute…

Grr. Today was quite unique if I don’t say. About a few weeks ago we kicked my drug addicted in-law out of the house. Needless to say he…

Do you want to get started working in information security?

A recent breach of Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls has raised alarm bells within the cybersecurity community. Reports indicate that suspected…