Yet another acronym, DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance). This became very important due to the high-profile phishing done by russian state sponsored hacking groups involving spoofed e-mail addresses. By sending e-mails that looked as coming from credible sources they were able to infect systems connected to political entities: Clinton campaign staff, democrat party… Read More »
The following is a very interesting post about different database technologies and when to use them. It is a good way read that helps you to explain to people that you do not have to use some DB tech only because is the new cool boardroom word 🙂 When to use Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, Accumulo… Read More »
A great introduction to blockchain hype, void of all the marketing blah-blah and boardroom nonsense. A must read for anyone that wants to know what blockchain is all about. What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners [paypal_donation_button]
A very interesting article about the anonymity issues of Bitcoin and alternatives. Bitcoin Isn’t Anonymous Enough. There are companies that already offer Bitcoin OFAC and AML: Elliptic You may think again if you want to switch from cash to cryptocurrencies for your “under the radar” payments. But still even with cash you have to keep… Read More »
A very interesting distributed storage solution Infinit Storage Platform. So interesting that the small company that implemented it was bought by Docker. By the way it has a docker plugin so can be mounted as a volume in any docker container. Looks like a very nice way of having a distributed, high availability storage with… Read More »
Keeping pace with new stuff related to programming and IT world is hard enough that you have to make a list from time to time of stuff you have in the backlog. Here is a list of new things I find to be very interesting: The November/December edition of Java Magazine Online is released Java… Read More »
The following are some interesting SQL Server related links: A lot of times you have to relocate the data and log files of a SQL Server. It can be that the default installation was not OK or you change the storage. The following tutorial is very useful Move System Databases Using SQL Server with R… Read More »
There are lots of expensive backup tools that can be used to back-up an enterprise environment. HP and IBM are leaders of this market but the costs can go very high quickly. As an alternative one can choose some open-source backup suites that are on par with the commercial ones. Bacula Bacula is a very… Read More »
I already had several posts related to constructing a secure website that can be released in the wild world-wide web. The following are several resources and links that will give a good idea on what one can do in order to secure a web site. First we need a way to analyse how secure our… Read More »
A fabulous piece from Rick Osgood on Hacking Microsoft SQL Server Without a Password. Using a man in the middle attach and ARP spoofing with a combination of free tools like Wireshark, Ettercap filters is able to hijack the SQL connection and execute arbitrary queries instead of the real queries. He manages even to create… Read More »