General Tech

• Backblaze released their hard-drive stats for 2022

• servethehome tested the new Intel NUCs and they sound great

• Linux Parallel CPU BringUp has seen some promising work, the last view weeks

• Don't know if one should cry or laugh Microsoft seems to deeply integrate Adobe Reader into Edge - will buy Popcorn for the first Exploits to arrive

• Wanna build an ARM Cluster? Kickstarter Campaign for a great Raspberry PI CM4 Computer Blade

• DDR5 in the Server market, what it brings and where it gets us

• the always great feistyduck newsletter is out delivering many TLS specific news

Security

• Short Summary of ExpelSecurity´s Annual Trend Report shows that Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing increases - Mitigate via FIDO2-Tokens or Certificate-Auth !

• ACME for TLS certificate-enrollment changed the TLS ecosystem in a good way, but more change is needed and the IETF is working on it

• New Year, new Bugs in Server BMCs

• Interesting Critique on Intel TDX

• Abusing the KeePass Plugin-Cache

• canarytokens.org - release some new goodness - credit card canary tokens

Misc

• Balloons in the stratosphere? why and for what, explains Frank Rieger - (German)

• Ransomware Diaries from the lockbit ransomware crew some pretty interesting insides, into the ransomware world

• Reversing UK Rail Tickets

• how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps

Courses / Howtos / Books / Guides / Talks

• Google - Technical Writing Courses - had a quick skip and this looks pretty good

• Videos from the FOSDEM 2023 Conference got released - Linux, Networking, Security, Coding & many more interesting topics