Author Archives: Nick

Why we need encrypted messengers…
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Posted on October 5, 2021 by

Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked for several years byu/markcartertm incybersecurity

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Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies: New ‘Business’ subscription is here • The Register
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Posted on August 31, 2021 by

An interesting move by Docker, I never found their desktop app to be useful and preferred command line or third-party tools to do management. “Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies: New ‘Business’ subscription is here • The Register” … Continue reading →

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Azure Cosmos DB users beware…
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Posted on August 28, 2021 by

This is pretty bad. It just goes to show security isn’t easy when even Microsoft can have a vulnerability like this. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/worst-cloud-vulnerability-you-can-imagine-discovered-in-microsoft-azure/

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Half of US Hospitals shutdown their network due to ransomware
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Posted on August 17, 2021 by

I wonder how many people lost their lives due to ransomware. Organizations need to take the security much more seriously. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/half-us-hospitals-shut-networks/

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Barcode Contents · zxing/zxing Wiki
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Posted on August 16, 2021 by

I recently found myself in the situation that I needed to generate a QR Code from within an application container I was developing.  I wanted to have it get picked up by the QR scanner as more than just plain … Continue reading →

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