Practical Technology

18 weeks of regular season NFL games later, I still don’t have a clue who will be in Super Bowl LVII. Hopefully, your team is still in the hunt. Mine, the Pittsburgh Steelers, managed to salvage a winning season, and that was about it. Come Sunday,…Read More

I thought they only poisoned candy on Halloween. On the Python Package Index, three new fake packages, colorslib, httpslib, and libhttps, have appeared with malware. Wasn’t it only a few days ago that some vile twit placed a malware-poisoned file on…Read More

Mastering a single-cloud network architecture is a challenge in and of itself but when it comes to a multi-cloud network architecture, it’s doubly so — and finding a comprehensive, agnostic multi-cloud certification program is nearly impossible.…Read More

Wizards of the Coast is changing the rules for the Dungeons and Dragons Open Gaming License, and game designers are Not happy. Long before there was open-source software, there was Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). And, I was there from almost the…Read More

Opinion For better or worse, we still need passwords, and to protect and organize them, I recommend the open source Bitwarden password manager. LastPass is perhaps the world’s most popular password manager. It’s also arguably the most broken password…Read More

It’s always something! The Kinsing malware has long been known to Linux administrators, and, now — surprise! — it’s coming after Kubernetes as well. is an old-school Linux/Unix Executable and Link format (ELF) malware program, written in Go. Given a…Read More