A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars

Hacker News

No exaggeration, unfortunately. As a disclaimer, I will add that this is a really stupid mistake and shows my lack of experience managing auto-scaling deployments. However, it all started with a question with no answer and I feel obliged to share my…

14 September 2019

Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN

Hacker News

CURRYFINGER measures a vanilla request for a particular URL against requests directed to specific IP addresses with forced TLS SNI and HTTP Host headers. The tool takes a string edit distance, and emits matches according to a rough similarity metric…

14 September 2019

New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just by Sending SMS

Hacker News

Proven methods to build security awareness in developers. Watch the webinar. The 5 Point Tactical Guide for Secure Developers. Get the whitepaper. New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls. Sign up for cybersecurity…

13 September 2019

A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript

Hacker News

"Big integers" have landed in Javascript, at least in Firefox and Chrome. One of my favorite things to do with high precision arithmetic is to calculate digits of π. From scratch, that is, using only addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. …

12 September 2019