Cybersecurity

Offline licensing for a Python desktop app without calling home on every launch

Some desktop applications cannot depend on an internet connection every time they start. The useful …

Where license validation belongs in an Electron app

If an Electron app checks its license in renderer code, a customer can inspect the same code that ma…

Building a Real Time Attack Visualizer: SSH Honeypot and Cloudflare Workers

Every second, bots scan the internet for open SSH ports. I wanted to see exactly what they were doin…

Password Reset UX: Make Recovery Clear and Safe

A good password reset flow helps a person regain access without revealing whether an account exists.…

A practical license-key flow for a .NET desktop app, including the sale

Adding a license check to a .NET desktop app is easy to underestimate. The first API call is usually…

🚨 Alertas de Seguridad: Ciberdelitos y Vulnerabilidades en Rapa 🚨

🤖 Auto-generated daily threat intelligence digest — September 29, 2026 📡 Resumen diario de threat i…

Hackers exploit Citrix NetScaler zero-day to deploy web shells

Cybersecurity firms say attackers exploited the Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 zero-day to deploy c…

Former US Air Force members sent to prison over BEC attacks

Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal…

French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundre…

Paint It Blue: Reversing Win32k's Callbacks

This is an article about the internals of Win32k (Windows's GUI subsystem) and their callouts, with …

Windows 11 2026 Update released, here's everything you need to know

Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 11 26H2 to everyone, and while it's this year's big annual…

New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spect…