today's howtos
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TecMint ☛ Dtrx – An Intelligent Archive Extraction (tar, zip, cpio, rpm, deb, rar) Tool for Linux
Dtrx stands for “Do The Right Extraction“, it is an open-source and very effective command-line application for *nix systems that simplifies your job of archive extraction easier.
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TecMint ☛ 25 Apache Interview Questions for Beginners and Intermediate Users
In this article, we will cover 25 interesting Apache interview questions along with their answers, helping you learn new things about Apache that you may not have known before.
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RIPE ☛ Serial BGP Hijackers: A Reproducibility Study and Assessment of Current Dynamics
Despite its importance for the Internet's scalability and resilience, BGP remains vulnerable to prefix hijacks, which can disrupt access to critical services. While many prefix hijacking incidents are attributed to misconfigurations, we argue that they should not be dismissed lightly. Even accidental BGP hijacks can lead to significant security breaches and service outages.
In this article, we want to shed light on this issue and highlight the importance of proactively addressing these risks by creating Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) for both used and unused prefixes and enforcing Route Origin Validation (ROV) to mitigate the impact of such events. The following is a summary of a paper we recently presented.
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APNIC ☛ Serial BGP hijackers: A reproducibility study and assessment of current dynamics [Ed: Similar to above]
Despite its importance for the Internet’s scalability and resilience, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains vulnerable to prefix hijacks, which can disrupt access to critical services. While many prefix hijacking incidents are attributed to misconfigurations, my fellow researchers and I argue that they should not be dismissed lightly. Even accidental hijacks can lead to significant security breaches and service outages.
This post sheds light on this issue and highlights the importance of proactively addressing these risks by creating Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) for both used and unused prefixes and enforcing Route Origin Validation (ROV) to mitigate the impact of such events, summarizing a paper we presented at a recent conference.
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Ahmad Alfy ☛ Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Text fragments are a powerful feature of the modern web platform that allows for precise linking to specific text within a web page without the need to add an anchor! This feature is complemented by the ::target-text CSS pseudo-element, which provides a way to style the highlighted text.
Text fragments work by appending a special syntax to the end of a URL; just like we used to append the ID after the hash symbol (#). The browser interprets this part of the URL, searches for the specified text on the page, and then scrolls to and highlights that text if it supports text fragments. If the user attempts to navigate the document by pressing tab, the focus will move on to the next focusable element after the text fragment.