Web Scraping 101 in Python
In this post, which is a follow up to my ultimate web scraping guide, we will cover almost all the tools Python offers you to scrape the web. We will…
Google Partner Company Just Unveiled Its Controversial ‘Smart City’ for Toronto. It Raises Alarm Bells About Privacy
Google's partner company Sidewalk Labs just overcame a major hurdle. After much controversy over the past two years, the Waterfront Toronto board just approved its draft plan for the experimental…
With Ring, Amazon is building a smart city that should worry us all
Ring has now partnered with more than 400 law enforcement agencies in the US. As a result, data can be shared between the two groups, raising concerns around the transparency…
Next-Gen GUI-based WiFi And Bluetooth Analyzer For Linux
Sparrow-wifi has been built from the ground up to be the next generation 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wifi spectral awareness tool. At its most basic it provides a more…
Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities
A vulnerability in Amazon's Ring doorbell cameras would have allowed a local attacker to gain access to a target's entire wireless network. A vulnerability in Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Pro…
Budget Linux Smartphone PinePhone
Do you remember when It’s FOSS first broke the story that Pine64 was working on a Linux-based smartphone running KDE Plasma (among other distributions) in 2017? It’s been some time…
SmartTV Connections over Tor
If your Internet Providers cannot tell where your traffic is going, what it is accessing, and where it originated then it is going to be very difficult for them to be anything other than neutral. Read on to find out how this is possible and how you can make it happen today.
iOS 13.2 tips: Check these security and privacy settings today
iPhones and iPads are, out of the box, quite robust and secure platforms. But with a few tweaks you can harden that security dramatically without adding too much burden to…
Let’s talk about Smart Phone Privacy
Smart Phones and Privacy might be considered an oxymoron - a contradiction in terms - and anyone who tells you otherwise is well... selling something. No surprise there but with…
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ‘They’re not going away.’
The problem with how Intel designed speculative execution is that, while anticipating the next action for the CPU to take does indeed speed things up, it also exposes data along…
