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yashinm92on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

Good quality? I'm not sure. Just speculation on this one post: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...

yashinm92on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

Just this link: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...

I'm a bit concerned about the reliability of that report since there are no strong proofs for their claim.

yashinm92on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

How many on the public internet? Too many. Here are close to 100k IP cameras on the public internet: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ip+camera

Again, the speculation that it is IoT devices is unfortunately just that. However massive compromise of internet connected embedded device is not new: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

yashinm92on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

This was a mixed traffic botnet. There are speculations that a large chunk was from compromised IoT devices.

yashinm92on EmDrive: Nasa paper has finally passed peer review

TLDR: Now deleted forum comment by a scientist says that the paper "Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio Frequency Cavity in Vacuum" has passed peer review and will be published in AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power. A line of text was included that may be from the paper itself: "Thrust data in mode shape TM212 at less than 8106 Torr environment, from forward, reverse and null tests suggests that the system is consistently performing with a thrust to power ratio of 1.2 +/- 0.1 mN/Kw ()"

yashinm92on FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals

A team from MIT has created a product for this specific purpose using a very similar technology: http://www.emeraldforhome.com/

yashinm92on ISRO successfully test-fires scramjet engine

Official press release: http://www.isro.gov.in/update/28-aug-2016/successful-flight-...

yashinm92on The Imposter's Handbook

Just bought the book. He has a few paragraphs on the cover image and states "Many thanks to NASA/JPL for allowing reuse."

yashinm92on Hard disk hacking (2013)

Previous Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665865

yashinm92on Learning how to program in Oman in the 90’s

Looks like it's an Oman meetup! Student of ISD here.

yashinm92on The Day I Got My Green Card

May I ask what you do for a living? From what I understand O1 is a very difficult visa category to get into.

yashinm92on China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

Love the photos! Could you share info on what gear you used?

yashinm92on Introducing the Infinit file system

I did create something similar a while back: https://github.com/sp3ctr3/arcanum-server https://github.com/sp3ctr3/arcanum-client