Año nuevo, quedada nueva.

El año 2018 ya está aquí, así que una vez que han terminado las navidades volvemos a reunirnos para recuperar el ritmo de actividad.

No hace ni un mes que la neutralidad de la red fue “tumbada” en USA y todavía estamos pendientes de cómo repercutirá eso en el resto del mundo; aunque estos días todo el mundo está mucho más pendiente de la gran cantidad de criptomonedas que están inflándose/desinflándose/aparenciendo y de no tener un terrible agujero de seguridad en sus procesadores por culpa de Meltdown y Spectre.

La idea es volver a juntarnos para...

I must confess I’m a big fan of 80’s and 90’s tech. I grew up admiring cyberpunk stuff, wore green lab goggles until I was fourteen and used computers since I was three. I enjoy learning the newest tool for the tech field and be up to date, but I have a natural attraction for the classics. I admire them for being the beginning of everything we have now, and that way I just wanted to learn about IRC channels for fun.

But then I discovered a rather interesting tool for managing...

Guille Hartek is a spanish computer engineer working in security. I met him a year ago when he accepted to give a speech in a security event which our privacy and digital rights awareness group organized. He writes about security in “Follow the White Rabbit”, a spanish blog about security which won a national prize. Today, I’m writing down a quick interview with him. As he doesn’t want me to put a picture of him, I will leave here this vague sketch I made:

Me: First of all, I’d like to...

Again my weekly security sprints arrives in late, but I hope not too late as this time, I’m experimenting with dangerous new horizons, such as Perl and Forensics. I approached to Perl with respect and, yes why not saying it, fear. First of all everyone, except my cloud computing teacher, warned me about the complexity of this language. Anyway I tried to made it the easy way, and searched for help in an already prepared script for security I found on GitHub. The script is quite clear and organized which helped me to both learn perl and...

Recently something amazing was added in my university’s library: you can ask not only for for books but also for electronic programming bundles such as Raspberry or Arduino kits. I decided to take a Raspberry Pi kit in order to make an experiment: a network capture probe.

A network capture probe is a tool for network system monitoring that allows you to capture traffic in real-time. I learned about this technique not long ago when I met a guy who was wearing one of those in his bag everywhere using his Raspberry...