A few weeks ago, I lost access to my email account. That experience opened my eyes to just how much I depended on it and how expensive a “free” service can become when things go wrong.
This is a post-mortem of what happened and what I learned.
When I was younger, MMOs were everywhere. World of Warcraft had already taken over the world with millions of players, Lineage II and Runescape had their own massive communities, and when AION launched in 2009 by NCSoft (a South Korean Company) it quickly became one of the most populated MMOs, with around 6 million players in Asia and 1 million in Europe.
I was looking for an eink tablet to r ead books and take notes while I’m away from home.
After adventuring in the eInk rabbit hole I decided to go for the Onyx Boox Go 10.3: a Black and White eInk Android Tablet with 300ppi that’s also good for taking notes, weighting only 365g!
I was a bit concerned about this report from Mozilla so I decided to take a look at the device.
As you probably already heard, the xz package got compromised.
The package was used as entrypoint to inject malicious code in sshd, altering the authentication flow. This forged vulnerability is now known as CVE-2024-3094.
I have seen many companies invest significant time and resources into security measures that have little to no actual effect on security. This is commonly referred to as “security theater”.
Long time no see, uh? Lot of stuff happen since the last post in 2018 on the old blog.
