Tag Archives: infosec

Links for September 29th through October 4th

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Vinny

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• Harp, the static web server with built-in preprocessing – Harp serves Jade, Markdown, EJS, CoffeeScript, LESS and Stylus as HTML, CSS & JavaScript—no configuration necessary. It makes front-end development a treat.
• Install to Homescreen – Google Chrome Mobile: iOS like Webclips finally come to Android – Starting with the Chrome Beta (M31) you can set up your web app to be added on to a device's homescreen as an application shortcut and have it launch in full-screen "app mode" using Chrome for Android’s “Add to homescreen” menu item.
• PostgreSQL Studio – Open Source Web-based PostgreSQL Development – PostgreSQL Studio makes it possible to edit your database code, navigate your schema and run full SQL queries from within web pages that live in a browser. It is a database development tool focused on developing databases for the web, in the web.
• Review: 4 supercool JavaScript tools for data visualization – Free, open source D3, InfoViz, Processing.js, and Recline.js bring dynamic, interactive — and jaw-dropping — data-driven graphics to the Web browser
• Webinar Recording: Why iOS 7 Will Enable A Frenzy Of New Enterprise Mobile Applications – As a result of improvements in iOS 7, we expect to see a frenzy of new iOS enterprise applications in the next 12-18 months. These improvements directly benefit application developers and IT administrators and will accelerate the adoption of purpose built
• Spring IO brings together the Spring family of projects into a cohesive and versioned foundational platform for modern applications – Spring IO brings together the Spring family of projects into a cohesive and versioned foundational platform for modern applications
• GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started – ReadWrite – GitHub is more than just a programmer's tool. If you want to collaborate on anything, you should give it a try. Part 1 of a two-part look at getting started with GitHub.
• The Developer is the New CIO: How Vendors Adapt to the Changing Landscape – The Developer is the New CIO: How Vendors Adapt to the Changing Landscape
• Google Web Designer – Create engaging, interactive HTML5-based designs and motion graphics that can run on any device. – Let us handle the HTML5 and CSS3 so you’re free to focus on what you love to do: creating gorgeous visual experiences. A full design suite lets you easily bring any vision to life.
• Tessel – Hardware development for software developers. – Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript — no server necessary. Just like web or mobile development, use your own IDE and libraries to program physical applications.
• What I Wish I Knew Before Studying Computer Security in College – Now that my time in college is almost over, I want to reflect on some of the things I've learned as a student of Computer Security with the hope that some incoming security students can learn from my experiences. If you are currently in the industry or hav
• Things I Learned Working on the Twitter Platform | Ryan Sarver – Giving advice is much easier than deploying it. I’ll be the first to admit that we weren’t able to successfully implement a lot of the lessons here, but hopefully they are still valuable. This isn’t meant to be an analysis or tell-all about Twitter’s platf

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Links for May 7th through May 13th

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Vinny

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• Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley’s Elite – Businessweek – On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at around
• Mobile DevCon New York – How We Built Facebook for iOS – Hear the story of how we rebuilt the Facebook app – moving to native code instead of WebViews – from one of Facebook's very own iOS engineers.
• With Windows Blue, Microsoft may (finally) do the right thing | ZDNet – Call it capitulation. Call it listening to customers. But whatever you call it, making Windows 8 more usable with expected coming Blue tweaks is a positive, not a negative.
• Declarative Data Visualization – Intellectual Wanderlust – The purpose of this post is to provide a live example of DViz, a declarative data visualization library written in Javascript.
• Learn Web Penetration Testing: The Right Way – PentesterLab is an easy and great way to learn penetration testing.
  PentesterLab provides vulnerable systems that can be used to test and understand vulnerabilities.
• Fries lets you prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. – Fries is an awesome mobile prototyping framework for Android apps inspired by Ratchet. We all know that you can find loads of iOS prototyping tools out there, so this time let's give some love to Android.
• Guitar Handbook Download with Berklee Online | Berkleemusic.com – Get a taste of Berklee's legendary guitar instruction in our free downloadable Guitar Handbook. This extensive PDF contains lessons taken from Berklee's 12-week online guitar courses, and covers introductory topics such as scales, triads, strumming techniq
• Microsoft Windows 8 criticism response: not like New Coke | BGR – Microsoft executive Frank Shaw is not happy with everyone who compared Windows 8 to New Coke this week. Shaw, who serves as Microsoft’s vice president of corporate communications, has written a blog post swiping back at media outlets who bashed the company
• Google builds push notifications into Chrome, Chrome OS | Internet & Media – CNET News – In a step to help browser-based apps catch up with the abilities of other software, Google has made it possible for programmers to push notifications to Web apps running in Chrome.
• Disruptive technologies articles and insights discussion with Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt – In the first of a series of video interviews with high-tech experts, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt explores the technologies likely to have the greatest disruptive impact on economies, business models, and people. 
• Discover Meteor – Learn how to build real-time JavaScript web apps – Learn Meteor and build faster, simpler web apps as we teach you how to build a real-time Meteor app from scratch.
• NASA to migrate ISS computers from Windows to Linux | The Rocketry Blog – Citing stability issues NASA has announced they will be migrating the ISS laptops and PCs from Windows to Linux
• Why Enterprise Software Sucks: 6 Years Later | The Future Of Work – I thought it would be interesting to revisit the topic and see what progress has been made (or not made) since then.

Daily del.icio.us for April 8th through April 13th

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Vinny

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• Google exec worries over ‘rudderless’ Java – open source, licensing, Java, Google, apache – PC World – The Java platform has "appeared rudderless for the last few years," said Google's chief Java architect, Josh Bloch, speaking Wednesday at the Red Hat Middleware 2020 virtual conference. "A malaise [has fallen] over the community and the end is not in sight."
• Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video – While an open-source VP8 could end concerns about H.264’s licensing issues and Theora’s quality, questions still remain about whether Google can provide a video standard on which everyone can agree
• Surprise, Surprise: Opera Mini iPhone App Gets Apple’s Stamp Of Approval – Good news for Opera (and its legions of fans around the world): the company has just announced that its mobile browser Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
• PBS | About PBS | NEW RESEARCH CONFIRMS PBS THE MOST TRUSTED AND UNBIASED SOURCE FOR NEWS – The American people have named PBS the most trusted and unbiased institution among nationally known organizations, the most trusted source of news and public affairs1 among broadcast and cable sources,1 and  the most educational media brand for children ages 2-82 according to new national polls.
• Please do not change your password – The Boston Globe – “Most security advice simply offers a poor cost-benefit trade-off to users,” wrote its author, Cormac Herley, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research.
• Java 1.7 – What’s new? Release date, code examples and performance – I have been reading quite a lot about Java 1.7. I have decided to regroup all I have discovered in this article so that I and maybe you, won't have to spend hours surfing the web to find all this information
• The Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Functional Java – Functional programming is definitely a different mindset.  It seems to solve a good number of problems that we attempt to address using tactics like the Strategy pattern in normal OO Java
• .NET Java Interop Solutions; Grasshopper – The Visual Studio 2008, 2005 Plugin – At Mainsoft, we believe the fastest route for Visual Studio® developers to deploy applications on open systems is to extend existing .NET development skills to the Java™ EE platform
• Ajaxian » So all this is done in HTML5 by the way – The Web is so special as it isn’t owned by a single vendor. This means that this kind of crap can’t happen. One company can’t change the rules in one fell swoop. There isn’t that one company that can become misaligned with the interests of certain developers and Do Bad Things.
• gxtforms – Library for automating GXT forms generation – GXT Forms provides utility code to autogenerate GWT/GXT forms based on annotated Java Beans. This library is intended to complement the GXT library, making form generation and data binding just a bit easier.

Daily del.icio.us for April 27th through April 28th

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Vinny

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• Easier testing with EasyMock – Join Elliotte Rusty Harold for a look at some hard unit tests made easy through mock objects — more specifically, the EasyMock framework. This open source library saves you time and helps make your mock-object code concise and legible.
• InfoQ: 13 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex and BlazeDS – This article outlines the 13 reasons why Java programmers should learn Flex and BlazeDS. It talks about why Flex with BlazeDS is one of the best choices for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs)—from highly interactive websites to enterprise applications with Java back ends
• RubyMine Features :: Ruby on Rails IDE. Code editing, code completion, refactoring, ruby debugger. Best HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing support – JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities. Easy project configuration, integrated Ruby Gems manager, Rake support — it's got everything a Ruby developer needs in a development environment
• Google Launches Public Data Search & Charts During Wolfram Alpha Demo – Google promises to add public data for answers on prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires amongst others. Currently this data is coming from produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division, but Google does hope to bring in more public data sources.
• 10 Essential Firefox Plugins for the Infosec Professional | dmiessler.com – Shown below are the information security related plugins I recommend any infosec professional (or enthusiast) install upon spinning up a new Firefox instance.
• NPR: Power Hungry: Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid – The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines. Aging infrastructure, combined with a rise in domestic electricity consumption, has forced experts to critically examine the status and health of the nation's electrical systems.
• Op-Ed Columnist – To Tweet or Not to Tweet – NYTimes.com – I was here on a simple quest: curious to know if the inventors of Twitter were as annoying as their invention. (They’re not. They’re charming.) I sat down with Biz Stone, 35, and Evan Williams, 37, and asked them to justify themselves.
• The White House – Press Office – President Obama Announces Members of Science and Technology Advisory Council – PCAST is an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers who will advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in the many areas where understanding of science, technology, and innovation is key to strengthening our economy and forming policy that works for the American people.
• Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy? – Companies are realizing that people are talking about them whether they like it or not. As a result, they’re deciding whether they should consider having a social media presence, and hence, a policy. A social media policy outlines for employees the corporate guidelines or principles of communicating in the online world.
• Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-Book Application for the iPhone – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular free e-book application for the iPhone, according to Lexcycle’s blog.
• Raible Designs | Ajax Framework Analysis Results – Way back in January, I wrote about how my colleagues and I were evaluating Ajax frameworks to build a SOFEA-style architecture. To make our choice, we used the following process:

Daily del.icio.us for April 26th through April 27th

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Vinny

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• What Programming Languages Should You Know? – David Chisnall suggests that the more programming languages you know, the better. The point is not to stuff your head with language rules. Rather, he explains how being able to read multiple languages, even if you never code in them, can help you to selec
• MetaWidget: the ‘sweet spot’ of automatic UI development – Metawidget takes your domain objects and automatically creates User Interface components for them, saving you handcoding your UIs and leaving you to concentrate on stitching together your application.
• Ext JS: A reminder that you are not alone on Dion Almaer’s Blog – Every now and then, normally when talking to a libertarian, I think about how we are actually all connected to each other. It is impossible to sandbox yourself from society which leads me to conclude that I need to embrace it and do what I can to work out
• InformIT: Interview with Donald Knuth > Interview with Donald Knuth – Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming co
• Graeme Rocher’s Blog: Choosing an OSS License and the Ext-JS saga – The news that Ext-JS has, from one release to the next, changed from a modified LGPL to a GPL based license nearly made me fall off my chair. There have been many poor judged, and ill advised decisions made by software companies over the last few years, b
• The Future of Enterprise Software: I Am So Scared, I Am So Excited « 7thursdays – More so than ever, the time is coming for companies that build it right and do it right to prosper while the ones that exclusively focus on just selling it right and who-cares-what-happens-after-the-deal-closes to stare at a lacklustre or flat revenue cur
• @Gridify: Java Executor Service Rocket Scientists and Generics Brain Surgeons – We at GridGain recently were faced with the following problem. It turns out (may be old news to some), that java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService in JDK 1.6 is not backward compatible with JDK 1.5
• Take a screenshot in Flex and send it to ASP.NET | YTechie.com – In Adobe Flex 3, you can get a bitmap image of any control by using this code (you’ll need to import "mx.graphics.ImageSnapshot"):
• Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text | Web Page Design for Designers © – CSS provides three very useful properties to enhance the readability of your site: font, line-height, and letter-spacing
• Jack Slocum’s Blog – » Ext JS License change and personal attacks – It’s not right the amount of personal attacks I have been receiving lately. I have people questioning my ethics, business practices and saying we changed Ext JS to GPL v3 because my (and I quote) “greed for money came before your moral ethics”.
• Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked – Security Fix – The attackers appear to be breaking into the sites with the help of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers. In an alert issued last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an unpatched flaw in
• 0x000000 # Massive SQL Injection Attack 600.000++ – I just read that F-secure found out that already 510.000 600.000++ new websites are hacked and more are being hacked while we speak. Among them the British government, United Nations and many more high target