I recently noticed a quite massive spike in SPAM. A lot of it got through the filter and almost all of it was obvious SPAM that came from the same domains.

Apple wants to further shorten the lifetime of certificates. This time to just 10 days, starting 2027. I consider the cost/benefit calculation to be a bit problematic and the argumentation to be partly biased.

Simone Margaritelli (aka evilsocket) has found a particularly nice RCE exploit for CUPS, which he explains in detail.

Is GitHub Copilot a useful assistant or rather a waste of money and a hindrance to work? My personal experience giving it a try.

SPF and DKIM are a thing. Maybe you should start respecting them.

For months there was an illegal WIFI running on the USS Manchester (LCS-14) that provided internet access via Starlink to NCOs.

Somehow I must have missed a post by Meredith Whittaker in June, in which she complains about the new branding of this nonsense.

For some time now, articles have been appearing explaining why agile is dead, why it is not dead, why the failure rates mentioned in a study are or are not correct and whether or not we hate agile software development.

Several versions of Dovecot offer an attack surface for DoS attacks. A secure version is available with 2.3.21.

Crowdstrike has released an RCA about the recent major outage. According to the introduction it is less technical and uses generalized terminology. I would not subscribe to that. The document is extensive... after fighting your way through a protective layer of bullshit.

Logitech is considering a subscription for the mouse.

Drupal 7 will be retired on January 5, 2025 after 14 years and this time the date is likely to be final, making an upgrade to Drupal 10 or a complete system switch unavoidable if you don't want to pay extra for support.

After Microsoft was already a victim of the CrowdStrike update in the middle of the month, a DDoS attack has now been added to the mix, which has succeeded despite protection mechanisms that were apparently not configured correctly.