https://www.bytebybyte.io/ Recent content on Byte by Byte Hugo -- gohugo.io en-AU Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:17:31 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/15/ Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:17:31 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/15/ Serverless, NBN Co stats, 50TB SSDs and more for you to enjoy this week. Hopefully no one was hit in the Ethereal hack! Tool of the week - Serverless Much like Apex, Serverless is a framework for building serverless applications on top of products like AWS’ Lambda. Articles How CircleCI Processes 4.5 Million Builds Per Month I’m seeing quite a few biggish projects get fed up with some of the qwirks or slow build times on TravisCI making the switch to CircleCI. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/14/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:09:16 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/14/ Late post again, apologies! Also no tool this week but a lot of posts about domain hijacks and SEO bypasses. Articles Authentication bypass on Uber’s Single Sign-On via subdomain takeover One part domain hijacking, two parts SEO takeover, this post has it all. The .io Error – Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration This is more involved than the last post domain wise, taking over a whole TLD. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/13/ Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:28:05 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/13/ Late issue this week for our 13th edition, hope everyone is either having or has had a great Sunday! In some news closer to home, Cadbury chocolate factory has been hit by Petya. Hopefully this wont impact everyones sweets supply. Tool of the week - dnssearch dnssearch is a subdomain enumeration tool which lets you discover potential common (or uncommon!) subdomains. Its fast. Like, real fast, scanning at roughly 150 records/s in my tests. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/12/ Sun, 02 Jul 2017 04:28:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/12/ Happy Sunday everyone! More ransomeware fallout from Petya this week, along with some milestones for Let’s Encrypt. Talking about milestones, Job Snijders on twitter managed to make a Nyancat using BGP. Frigging awesome. Tool of the week - Magic Wormhole Magic Wormhole is a neat little tool by GitHub user warner. Magic Wormhole provides a binary/library to send arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/11/ Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:00:00 +1000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/11/ Lots of news this week on a wide range of topics! I’ve started putting ⭐’s to my favourite article of the week, let me know what you think. Tool of the week - Zappa Zappa is a python framework around AWS’ API/lambda features allowing you to deploy serverless APIs. I just moved my personal API written in flask to it and it was a breeze! AWS Security Primer ⭐ This post goes into the complexities of AWS Security and the dos and don’ts. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/10/ Sun, 18 Jun 2017 01:00:00 +1000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/10/ This week marks the 10th edition of Byte by Byte! Hopefully everyone is enjoying it as much as I am but don’t hesitate to get involved! 5 more articles for you this week, tabs vs spaces, router attacks and more. Tool of the week - Apex Apex is a framework around AWS Lambda functions allowing you to build serverless crons. Apex lets you write code in many different languages, such as Golang, through the use of a Node. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/9/ Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/9/ Adding a new section this week called Tool of the week. This is where we’ll link a single tool that we found during the week (or previous ones!). Tool of the week - direnv This is our new section of the newsletter where we give you a single neat little tool we’ve found from the previous week. This week its direnv, which lets you automatically set environment variables when you enter a directory in bash. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/8/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:38:37 +1000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/8/ Apologies for the late issue! This is a short one due to having a busy week, still quite a few good articles! British Airways IT engineer blamed for outage With the fallout of British Airways’ IT disaster last week, they have now apparently blamed it on a sole engineer. After trying to gag staff I’m unsure what to believe. Stanford University WP sites hosts malware I honestly don’t get how this happens. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/7/ Sun, 28 May 2017 12:25:00 +1000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/7/ Much quieter this week vulnerability wise, no more WannaCry or anything! More posts on Stack Overflow, VIM and Bitcoin to keep you going through Sunday. Enjoy! Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim Starting off the week with a bit of comedy, Stack Overflow does some analytics on who has the most trouble exiting VIM. Bitcoin price jump In the last week Bitcoin has surged in price only to fall again later in the week. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/6/ Sun, 21 May 2017 17:20:00 +1000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/6/ If you’re receiving this then we’ve changed name successfully! Booyah! We’re now known as Byte by Byte and the old name is going. Same content, different name. Let us know what you think. Things have calmed down a little bit after the drama of WannaCry last week. I imagine there are still a lot of busy sysadmins out there hoping their backups are intact! Google Cloud brings 45 teraflop processors Google has launched its second gen tensor processor used for machine learning and artificial intelligence. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/5/ Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/5/ Busy week compared to last week. Some fairly political articles and some closer to home for us Aussies! More links than normal, let me know if you think this is to many. Current state of the Australian NBN The NBN has been a hot topic for far to long. This post goes over its history and how we got to where we are today. ‘Accidental hero’ halts ransomware attack By registering a domain, twitter user MalwareTech managed to stop the latest round of ransomware sweeping across Europe and other areas. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/4/ Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/4/ Pretty terrible week for a lot of teams with Intel RSE’s and Google Docs scams. On a more personal note we launched a redesign of our website, make sure to stop by and check it out! Intel Remote Security Exploit This one is going to suck for a lot of people. Dating all the way back to 2008 means a lot of machines are going to be impacted. North Korea’s Ullim Tablet A closer look at the tablets that North Korea supplies to its citizens, along with all the spyware and restrictions that are placed onto it. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/3/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/3/ It has been a pretty busy week personally so this edition is a bit late, sorry about that! I’ve got some old and new articles this week and I’m also working on a JavaScript free design for our website that should launch next week. Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Bit of an old article but still great. This three part series goes into Stack Overflows architecture from the technology stack to the physical (not cloud! https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/2/ Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/2/ Welcome to the second week of Byte by Byte. If this is your first email from us, chances are you might’ve been subscribed via my blog. You can unsubscribe via the bottom of this email if this isn’t the thing for you, no hard feelings. Bit of a mix of articles this week including some political, phishing and new releases. Mandatory ISP data retention This is quite a long post by Troy Hunt covering the increasing issue of metadata retention by ISPs and the effect it is happening. https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/1/ Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/issues/1/ Welcome to the first issue of Byte by Byte. This is a weekly newsletter that links just 5 articles or tools around technology for your consumption. This week we’ve got links about inmates building computers in prison, using Dropbox as a remote git endpoint and everything inbetween. If you’ve got any feedback around what articles you’d like see or what you didn’t like I’d love to hear! Reach out on Twitter or on our GitHub repo. https://www.bytebybyte.io/subscribe/confirm-email/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/subscribe/confirm-email/ You've got mail Half way there! We've sent you an email confirming your subscription. Follow the link to finish your sign up! https://www.bytebybyte.io/subscribe/confirmed/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bytebybyte.io/subscribe/confirmed/ You've successfully signed up Our next email will be sent this Sunday Checkout our issue tracker to get involved or our past releases for more reading Issue Tracker Past Issues