Convolutional neural networks are very important in machine learning. If you want to do computer vision or image recognition tasks, you simply can’t go without them. But it can be hard to understand how they work. In this post, we will talk about the mechanisms behind convolutional neural networks, their…

Database systems typically give users the ability to trade off correctness for performance. In distributed systems, there is a whole other category for trading off correctness for performance: consistency levels. There are an increasing number of distributed database systems that are giving their users multiple different consistency levels to choose…

This blog post is an in-depth dive into the security features of the Intel/Windows platform boot process. In this post I’ll explain the startup process through security focused lenses, next post we’ll dive into several known attacks and how there were handled by Intel and Microsoft. …

If an attacker compromises a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) user’s device, he can easily steal and abuse cached credentials, even if MFA is enabled. In this blog post, we will demonstrate an attack in real Google Cloud environments, involving: Hijacking cached OAuth tokens stored on a GCP administrator’s client machine …

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is undoubtedly changing how engineers approach the cloud. IaC, when coupled with dev tools and automation, opens up new avenues for infrastructure performance, scalability, and now security. By embedding IaC security and compliance controls into your version control systems and CI/CD pipelines, you can start identifying…

Here are my views on the “Top Ten” AWS Security, Identity and Compliance updates from AWS re:Invent 2020. 1) AWS Nitro Enclaves — Create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data. …

Cloud storage enables organizations to reduce costs and operational burden, scale faster, and unlock other cloud computing benefits. At the same time, they must also ensure they meet privacy and security requirements to restrict access and protect sensitive information. Best practices for securing your data with Cloud Storage Securing enterprise storage data requires planning ahead to protect your data…

Why The Python GIL is Important Edit: The original article, in its entirety appears here: https://www.maartenbreddels.com/perf/jupyter/python/tracing/gil/2021/01/14/Tracing-the-Python-GIL.html There are plenty of articles explaining why the Python GIL (The Global Interpreter Lock) exists1, and why it is there. The TLDR version is: the GIL prevents multithreaded pure Python code from using multiple CPU cores.

Anti-cheat development is, by nature, reactive; anti-cheats exist to respond to and thwart a videogame’s population of cheaters. For instance, a videogame with an exceedingly low amount of cheaters would have little need for an anti-cheat, while a videogame rife with cheaters would have a clear need for an anti-cheat…