Starting around October 1st I saw something catastrophic happen to my incoming traffic from Google. Compared to the beginning of the year I have gone from around 10,000 pageviews a day to around 5,000—a 50% loss in traffic. Once I noticed (which took a while), I started reading a ton of articles on all the various potential causes.…
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The Difference Between Decompilers, Disassemblers, Debuggers, and Hex Editors
For people looking to get into reverse engineering, the barrier to entry can be fairly steep—starting with the terminology. Here are the differences between a few key tools you will encounter on the path. Decompilers reverse binaries into higher-level languages, like C++. Disassemblers reverse binaries into assembler language. Debuggers allow you to view and change the state of…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 157
Unsupervised Learning is my weekly show where I spend 5-20 hours finding the most interesting stories in security, technology, and humans, which I then curate into a 30-minute podcast & companion newsletter. The goal is to catch you up on current events, show you the best content from around the web, and hopefully give you something to think…
The Unsupervised Learning Gift List
I often find myself in the unpleasant position of wishing I could send people a gift, but not knowing what to get them. What I like to get people are smallish things that produce absolute delight, like the perfect knife, whiskey glass, or end-table book. So what I’m going to do here is capture my list of items…
Sensors + Algorithms Are the New Camera
Don’t call them cameras or microphones anymore. Those are human-centric names, and humans are about to be the Neandertals of detection. I first heard this idea regarding cameras from Benedict Evans. What we’re moving towards is a world where sensors are everywhere—and of multiple types: Visible light Non-visible light Radio waves Sound Vibration Chemicals Radioactivity Air pressure Etc,…
The Difference Between a Penetration Test and a Red Team Engagement
One of the most frustrating things to me as a security person is having sales and marketing types confuse the different types of security assessment. Similarities And among those types of assessment, the pentest and red team are two of the most commonly mangled. First, let’s start with similarities. They’re both types of security assessment, meaning their goal…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 156 (Member Edition)
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Medium Just Became an Even Worse Option for Blogging
Medium has quietly been making a series of changes that are all bad news for writers who still publish articles on their platform.I discovered the most recent—and most significant—change when I emailed the Medium support a few days ago asking to update the canonical links of the e-Residency article that I had just re-written and updated on nomadgate.com.It’s…
Do Great Minds Come from Lives of Comfort?
I’m not sure where all I am getting this from, but I know it’s multiple angles. I just got done watching a documentary on Mr. Rogers, and something struck me about his background: he grew up with a rich and successful family. Bertrand Russell then came to mind. He was from a rich family as well, and he…
The Strange Game of Shared, For-profit Cybersecurity Risk Scores
Brian Krebs ran a story recently about how FICO has a new service for rating the Cybersecurity risk level of various companies. Problem is, in one of their marketing communications about the new offering, they leaked the actual report data for a little company called ExxonMobil. I find this space both strange and fascinating. On one hand I…
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