We're Still Down - A Metastable Failure Tale
Explore a CDN's metastable failure, design improvements, and unconventional recovery methods. Learn strategies to prevent and address similar incidents in distributed systems.
CommunityCrit - Inviting the Public to Improve and Evaluate Urban Design Ideas through Micro-Activities
Explore a system for engaging communities in urban design through micro-activities, offering insights on public participation, project awareness, and diverse skill levels in planning processes.
The Discovery of a Government Malware and an Unexpected Spy Scandal
Explore the eSurv case study and trace the evolution of lawful intercept from Windows Trojans to professional spyware, uncovering a government malware scandal and its implications.
Mi máquina del tiempo
Ricardo Moreno comparte su experiencia en la creación de contenido innovador para nuevas generaciones, enfatizando la importancia de seguir las señales y tomar decisiones audaces para construir un futuro mejor.
Negotiating Privacy - Utility Trade-Offs under Differential Privacy
Explore privacy/utility trade-offs in differential privacy through a real IRS-DOE case study, examining challenges faced by data custodians when establishing data release standards.
The Year of LangSec Bugs
Explores major software vulnerabilities of 2016 through the lens of Language-theoretic Security, highlighting preventable bugs and advocating for improved input handling approaches.
Circonus - Design Failures Case Study
Explore Circonus platform's evolution, including architectural changes and lessons learned from failures in telemetry management and SLO implementation for system reliability.
Mind the Gap - Studying the Insecurity of Provably Secure Embedded Trusted Execution Architectures
Explore vulnerabilities in embedded trusted execution architectures and learn about potential security gaps in provably secure systems.
Cybersecurity for Real Life - Using the NIST Framework to Protect Your Critical Infrastructure
Explore NIST Framework for real-world cybersecurity, focusing on critical infrastructure protection, compliance, and practical implementation strategies.
Defiant in Life and Death - What Happens After You Fail?
Explore the rise, fall, and aftermath of an award-winning game studio. Learn about company culture's impact on success, the emotional toll of failure, and opportunities that arise from setbacks in game development.
Why Societies Collapse
Explore historical societal collapses and learn to identify warning signs to prevent future breakdowns, drawing insights from ancient civilizations and modern examples.
Babar-ians at the Gate - Data Protection at Massive Scale
Explore data protection challenges and solutions for Big Data environments, focusing on security considerations for Hadoop and emerging vulnerabilities in large-scale data management systems.
1000 Hackers in a Box - Failings of Security Scanners
Critique of commercial security scanners, exposing their shortcomings, false promises, and potential to encourage bad security practices. Challenges assumptions about their effectiveness in network protection.
Lessons Learned From attrition.org
Insights from attrition.org's experiences in cybersecurity, covering challenges, strategies, and key takeaways for security professionals and organizations.
Your Users Passwords Are Already Stolen
Explore password security vulnerabilities, database breaches, and human behavior in cybersecurity. Learn about common weaknesses and real-world examples to improve organizational defenses against unauthorized access.
Critical Infrastructure - The Cloud Loves Me, The Cloud Loves Me Not
Explore the complex relationship between public cloud services and critical infrastructure, examining case studies and security implications for interdependent systems.
A Case Study on Successful Migration - React Live
Strategies for successful large-scale migrations, focusing on a Flow to TypeScript transition. Insights on managing company-wide changes and convincing stakeholders of migration benefits.
Evolving the ML Platform Organisation at Netflix - A Case Study
Explore Netflix's ML platform evolution, covering team structure, skillsets, use cases, data ownership, and production models. Gain insights applicable to various ML organizations.
Media Hype and Hacks that Never Happened
Explore sensationalized media coverage of cybersecurity incidents, debunking exaggerated claims and examining the reality behind reported hacks and threats.
Software Assurance Marketplace - SWAMP
Explore the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP), a platform for developers to assess and improve software security through automated code analysis tools.
Examining Hacktivism - Crime and Punishment in the Digital Age
Explore hacktivism's evolution, legal implications, and societal impact through case studies, demographic analysis, and sentencing patterns in the digital age.