I’m sure that many of our Engineers that listen to this show can agree on one singular thing: we are all eternally curious. If you give an Engineer a black box, they’re going to pry...
Special: HTTP Status Codes
- January 31, 2021
- Tagged as: Datacenter, DNS, http, HTTP Status Codes, Response Codes, RFC2616, TCP
Last week we went over DNS and learned how browsers find the IP address of a web server we’re trying to connect to. Then, we learned how to establish an underlying TCP connection that would...
PotW: Duet Display
- January 31, 2021
- Tagged as: Android, duet air, duet display, iOS, ipad, lume, macbookpro, macos
Duet DisplayIf you are like me, you are always looking for more screen real estate. One screen simply won’t do in my line of work. I don’t have one of the latest iPads and am...
PotW: Corsair HS70 Wired Gaming Headset with Bluetooth
- January 31, 2021
- Tagged as: Arctis 3, Bluetooth, Corsair, HS70, Plantronics, SteelSeries
When I took my new role with Amazon they sent me a 13″ MacBook Pro, some Yubikey USB-C devices, and a Plantronics Blackwire C5220 headset. I used the Plantronics headset for all of about a...
Iron Chef Ian: Tequila Lime Mojitarita Cocktail
- January 31, 2021
- Tagged as: cocktail, garnish, Iron Chef Ian, lime, mint, sugar, tequilla, wedge
Ingredients 1 cup fresh mint leaves, plus more for garnish 1/2 cup (125 ml) freshly squeezed lime juice 2 tablespoons (30 g) granulated sugar or stevia 8 ounces (250 ml) silver tequila of your choice. ...
SonicWall Vulnerabilities
- January 31, 2021
- Tagged as: 0-day, End Point Control, NetExtender, Secure Mobile Access, SonicWall
On January 22, 2021 SonicWall alerted its customers of possible exploits against some of their devices stating, “Recently, SonicWall identified a coordinated attack on its internal systems by highly sophisticated threat actors exploiting probable zero-day...
DeroHE Ransomware Distributed Through Fake IObit Downloads
- January 31, 2021
- Tagged as: iobit, Malware, Ransomware, sql injection, windows defender
In the news this week the software vendor IObit was the victim of a massive supply chain attack as well as a large social engineering campaign. Many users received an email from IObit saying they...
Special: Datacenters, DNS, and TCP Handshakes
- January 24, 2021
- Tagged as: AWS, Azure, CLI, DNS, http, nslookup, web server
After working at Amazon for a few weeks now, I have something that I want to discuss that I found to be a major difference between an on-premise datacenter and a cloud-based datacenter like AWS...
PotW: Mind Expanding Books Github List
- January 24, 2021
- Tagged as: audiobook, Github, napoleon hill, PoTW, Reading
I love to read. But, it wasn’t always that way. There was a time in my life when you’d have to tie me up and drag me to a library. Hold on, do libraries exist...
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