Most of my posts in this blog are based on Scratch your own itch projects: When you have a problem and you work on a solution, then later you realize…
A blog about IT, security and whatever crosses my mind
Category: Tips and Tricks
I wanted to know this for such a long time and never had enough motivation to look it up properly. Turns out it is so easy that no one ever…
In my academic job I often need to find scientific papers about specific ideas and topics. Even though there are more specific search engines for most fields of study, I…
From time to time I have to work on files that exceed specific disk sizes. When that happens, programs begin to stutter, load indefinitely or simply crash when opening these files.
Therefore, I often need to evaluate which tools can open, edit and save big files. This blog post is a reminder to myself.
I am a big fan of Git, but my love relationship only really started when I learned about the inner workings of Git. I also feel that only the Git…
Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a documentary about ransomware. The journalist that conducted the interview (not with me unfortunately) wanted to see how malware in general works…
This post is inspired by a lot of questions I get about emails: Hey I got this strange email the other day… There are different mails that the security community…
IT security is a complex field, which makes protecting goods and data against attacks a really difficult and ongoing challenge. As a security professional, I give lots of people advice…
This is a totally short post, but vital information for me. I always end up searching for this online and always forget how to do it. So, in case you…
Last week I saw this tweet, which sparked a lot of interesting discussion about security of compilers.