Interesting Snippets from 2014-12-18

• USBdriveby - exploiting USB in style

  USBdriveby is a device you stylishly wear around your neck which can quickly and covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings on an unlocked machine via USB in a matter of seconds. It does this by emulating a keyboard and mouse, blindly typing controlled commands, flailing the mouse pointer around and weaponizing mouse clicks. In this project, we'll learn how to exploit a system's blind trust in USB devices, and learn how a $20 Teensy microcontroller can evade various security settings on a real system, open a permanent backdoor, disable a firewall, control the flow of network traffic, and all within a few seconds and permanently, even after the device has been removed.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-12-16

• caskdata/tigon · GitHub

  Tigon is an open-source, real-time, low-latency, high-throughput stream processing framework.

• The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform

  The primary goal for Atlas is to support queries over dimensional time series data so we can slice and dice to drill down into problems. This means we frequently have a need to perform a large aggregations that involve many data points even though the final result set might be small.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-12-02

• JexCheng/regulex · GitHub

  JavaScript Regular Expression Parser & Visualizer. http://jex.im/regulex/

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