“Cool, I’m in. Would prefer to ask whatever your net worth is and bet 90% But maybe this is what that is already”, snidely states Do Kwon, the Founder of Terra Luna, on the 13th of March to an anonymous account asking to make a 1 million dollar bet against Luna. Luna is a cryptocurrency launched in 2019 and created by Korean entrepreneur and 29-year-old Do Kwon. The Luna token was launched alongside the Terra token, which aimed to be a stable coin....

The problem with being your own bank is that you are your own bank. Often when people are phished / scammed they cry out for centralisation, for some sort of regulatory body to protect them. Sadly this is not how cryptocurrencies work. When you are your bank, you are responsible for your security. No one else is. It is your fault if you get hacked. Most people never bother investing in security, until it is too late....

This is a community created path of extremely difficult rooms that will challenge you. While TryHackMe focuses on learning, the experts need to learn to and that requires much harder content. Enjoy! If you manage to complete this entire list, please message the Discord about it – it’s very hard! Some of these rooms have 2 - 3 solves, and some of them have been around for 2 years with only ~9 solves!...

Shodan.io is a search engine for the Internet of Things. Ever wondered how you can find publicly accessible CCTV cameras? What about finding out how many Pi-Holes are publicly accessible? Or whether your office coffee machine is on the internet? Shodan.io is the answer! Shodan scans the whole internet and indexes the services run on each IP address. Note: if you are following along, you’ll need a premium Shodan account....

The only thing more annoying than your friend banging their pints on the table is your friend drunkenly suggesting you all do Duolingo together. I wasn’t sure what was more shocking, the fact that the pub had run out of Vodka or that my friend was suggesting, at 1 am, that we should all download Duolingo and learn some Spanish together. 500 days later, and I’m still at it. They are not....

Introduction I have around ~10k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days before it hit 1.7k stars. Humans are predictable creatures when it comes to our attention. I’ll show you data-backed actionable insights that can help you create popular software. Why Bother? Popular Projects = More Contributors = Better Project What’s the point in getting more GitHub stars?...

AWS Config One of the largest headaches we have is understanding: What resources do we have? Do we have resources that are no longer needed? Their status, security vulns. How are they linked? What changes have occurred on a resource? Is the infrastructure compliant with governance controls? Accurate auditing information? AWS Config records and captures source changes allowing us to perform actions against the data. It can: Capture resource changes Act as a resource inventory....

There are 4 main support plans:: Access online resources (basic) General guidance from AWS (Developer) 24-hour technical support (Business) Dedicated Account Managers and Personaliiseid Consultation Total Cost of Ownership The Total Cost of Ownership (ToC) calculator is a free calculator to compare AWS cloud and on-premise costs. It’s designed for anyone who is considering migrating to AWS. It creates a report after we complete a short questionaire. The report will include estimated on-premise costs such as:...

Authentication Comprised of 2 parts of information. Who you are? Presenting your identity (login username). Unique value within the system we are trying to authenticate to. Verify you are who you say you are. Passwords, MFA, etc. This does not have to be unique. We may use credit card pin numbers for authentication. Identity = credit card, verify = pin number. Authorisation Happens before authentication. System in which we have authenticated to establishes what level of privileges we can access....

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