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Directions Of The Cybersecurity Industry

Covid crisis and the forced work-from-home comes with the rapid transformation of a traditional established company to an online only business with most of the work force working remote.

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Waze: How I Tracked Your Mother

Tracking Waze drivers with UI elements.

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Vault Authentication with YubiKey

Leverage PKCS#11 support in curl to authenticate with the Vault's TLS Certificates Auth Method

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DevOps: easy answers, hard questions

There is a myriad of problems that comes from the "Build it, maintain it, operate it" territory.

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Validating Bitmessage public keys

Let's check if public keys are valid elliptic curve points according to a secp256k1 parameters.

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Commercial Cryptographic Key Management in 2018

Modern key management in a large organization is primarily described by bureaucratic procedures and compliance requirements due to financial liability. No one personnel hold all the keys required for a task. To minimize the need for trust in a day to day operations, the problem is partially solved with the three basic principles - separation of duties, dual control and split knowledge.

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The Future Of Malware

With the current state of technology and the massive boom in the implementation of encryption libraries, decentralized, trustless infrastructure services, and cryptocurrencies, we can expect a gradual movement towards more resilience in the field of malware development.

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Secure communication: Pond

The Pond is asynchronous, encrypted, forward-secure messaging application written by in Go programming language. The Pond’s graphic interface looks like an email client from the early 90s, but under the surface it’s doing a good job protecting end-to-end communication using common hipster state of the art encryption protocol. To be honest, I had some hard time make its source code running so I have created a guide for you. Let’s analyze it a little bit more.

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Secure communication: Bitmessage

Inspired by EFF’s, I have decided to analyze some not so well-known secure messaging applications. I am going to analyze only open-source solutions and the first application is Bitmessage. Bitmessage is a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer, trustless communication protocol written in Python with Qt GUI.

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