Practical Technology

If you can communicate on it, you can abuse it. This was proven again recently when a hacker using the name “scarycoder” uploaded a dozen malicious Python packages to PyPI, the popular Python code repository. These bits of code pretended to provide…Read More

Home & Office This year there are more ways to stream NFL football games than ever. Are you ready for some football? I am, even if I can’t expect much from my Pittsburgh Steelers this year. Read now With 17 NFL games, fans will have a lot of football…Read More

I used to like Malcolm Gladwell. And, I still think “Outliers,” “Blink,” and “The Tipping Point” are excellent books. But, sometimes, even brilliant people can make dumb mistakes. Case in point: Gladwell recently said, “It’s not in your best…Read More

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks don’t need to be big to wreak havoc on a target, but it doesn’t hurt. In the latest biggest of all times attacks, Google fended off an HTTPS DDoS attack, which peaked at 46 million requests per second…Read More

Okta, a trusted identity and access management (IAM) company, has been a big believer in zero trust security for years. Now, according to its latest survey, Zero trust adoption has “reached a tipping point.” What kind of tipping point? Ninety-seven…Read More

Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) memory encryption technology sounded like such a good idea back in 2015. This set of security instructions would enable programmers to set up protected private memory regions, called enclaves. Within them, data…Read More