Category: Technology

Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

As you are probably already aware, a certain person decided to smear a large number of highly classified documents over the internet. Part of these documents however included the ANT Hardware Catalogue. ANT is a division of the NSA responsible for developing hardware devices and software for use by the Tailored Access Operations division. The full catalogue is available from multiple sources – Although This gives a good overview of the capabilities of each device. The one product we’re going to focus on here is called SPARROW-II As you can see this system is used as a mobile wireless network (WLAN) detection point. A small computer intended to be used for WLAN collection, including from UAVs. Hardware: IBM Power PC 405GPR processor, 64 …

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Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

Ghost Buttons – The Brand New Design Trend

April 30, 2014 / Daniel / 0 Comments

Ghost is a mysterious and cryptic creature that triggers such associations as consternation, transparency, clarity as well as charisma and attractiveness. Though it seems that it has nothing to do with a website design, in fact, this frightening, yet adorable phantom manages to transfer its genetic traits into graphics, adding to integral elements its strong appeal and personal charm. The so-called ghost buttons are today’s talk of the office and are apparently a prevailing trend that is growing day by day. So, what actually does an almost translucent entity have to do with it all? Let’s figure it out. Ghost Buttons in Web Design Ghost button – that also can be called naked, empty or hollow – represents a basic …

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Ghost Buttons â€“ The Brand New Design Trend

How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency

April 30, 2014 / Daniel / 0 Comments

How do you add realtime functionality to a web scale application? That’s what Adam Hitchcock, a Software Engineer at Disqus talks about in an excellent talk: Making DISQUS Realtime (slides). Disqus had to take their commenting system and add realtime capabilities to it. Not something that’s easy to do when at the time of the talk (2013) they had had just hit a billion unique visitors a month. What Disqus developed is a realtime commenting system called “realertime” that was tested to handle 1.5 million concurrently connected users, 45,000 new connections per second, 165,000 messages/second, with less than .2 seconds latency end-to-end. The nature of a commenting system is that it is IO bound and has a high fanout, that is a …

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How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency

Checkmarx Heartbleed Vaccination Now Available

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Checkmarx Heartbleed Vaccination Now Available – Posted by Sharon Solomon on Tue, April 29, 2014 @ 04:43 PM

Checkmarx has now released an update that scans your application source code for the Heartbleed-vulnerable library code. The Heartbleed vulnerability had affected almost half a million secure web servers, certified by trusted authorities, by the time it was exposed. The bad news is that the problem still exists. More than 2% of the Alexa world top 1,000,000 websites are still susceptible to attack.

All You Wanted to Know About the Heartbleed Vulnerability

Heartbleed is a bug in the basic implementation of open-source OpenSSL Checkmarx CTO Maty Siman told reporters after the bug was exposed. Many security problems, like Heartbleed, can be traced to the original code written by …

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Checkmarx Heartbleed Vaccination Now Available

Evernote + Feedly is Now on Mobile

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Feedly users love Evernote because it helps you collect the articles that matter to you. It has been one of our most used feedly Pro integrations since it launched, and today you’re going to love using feedly and Evernote together even more. We’re happy to announce that we’ve just launched an update to Evernote on feedly that addresses some of your most asked for features. Evernote is now available on mobile We’re excited that starting today, feedly apps on iOS and Android now include full Evernote integration. It’s something you’ve been asking for, and we heard you. You can now save articles directly to your Evernote notebooks from your feedly mobile app. Automatically clip full article content Along with mobile support, …

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Evernote + feedly is now on mobile