Month: September 2023

In ASP.NET Core Web API, you can use wrapper classes to standardize the format of your API responses. A wrapper class typically contains a status code, a message, and the actual data payload. This helps in providing a consistent structure for your API responses, making it easier for clients to understand and handle them.

Let's create a simple example of a wrapper class in ASP.NET Core Web API.

We're all getting used to life after the immense global crisis caused by COVID-19. One thing is clear - our world, especially when it comes to computers and technology, will never be the same. I've worked in cybersecurity for twenty years and seen how the pandemic has shown us security problems we didn't know we had. At the same time, it's made things change even faster than before. In this article, I will talk about what we've learned and give some thoughts on what might happen as we get closer to 2024.

Lessons Learned

Working From Home Can Be Risky

One of the most significant changes because of the pandemic was how many people started working from home. This helped businesses keep going and showed us many security risks. Many companies weren't ready for so many people to work remotely, which meant they didn't have good enough security for networks and devices being used at home.

Do you ever feel this sensation in mathematics class, facing a problem, starting to write equations, the same as the ones on the classroom board, as you table neighbor, doing everything right and having the wrong solution at the end?

You will never know if it was the calculator's fault or yours. You don't have any choice but to do the equation again.  

Since the inception of the internet, cyber security has been one of the prime points to ponder. Protecting computers, mobile devices, electronic systems, servers, networks, and data from nefarious attacks from cyber miscreants. Today, AI has become the epicenter of all operations, and to remain relevant, one cannot ignore the usage of AI. AI not only brings ease of operations in the lives of human professionals but also brings numerous threats. One of the most dangerous Aspects of AI is the ethical usage of data. This article will give you a broad understanding of everything you need to know about safeguarding your AI systems, including your invaluable data. Let’s get started!

For one of the longest periods of time, most organizations have been following the BAS technique to mitigate security risks. 

This error usually happens when you are doing a backup of the transaction log. The error is like this one:

Msg 26019, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 BACKUP detected corruption in the database log. Check the errorlog for more information. BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.

In this blog series, We will learn about encryption and decryption basics in a very casual fashion. We will start discussing from origin of cryptography and then learn about modern techniques.

One of the important and main techs in encryption is Cryptography. 

"...this is a properly tested project. We even have 85% test coverage!" told John, a coder, proudly to his colleague, Mike, whom he just met next to the coffee machine after not seeing each other for a while. Mike was not really satisfied and asked: "And what about the remaining 15%?"

John stated that the part of the code in question is not really important, partially not even used anymore. And anyway, it was tested manually. And, of course, they keep adding new and new classes to the Sonar-Exclude in order to hide code, which can not be tested, from SonarQube.

In the rapidly evolving world of AI, large language models have come a long way, boasting impressive knowledge of the world around us. Yet LLMs, as intelligent as they are, often struggle to recognize the boundaries of their own knowledge, a shortfall that often leads them to “hallucinate” to fill in the gaps. A newly devised technique, known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), shows promise in efficiently increasing the knowledge of these LLMs and reducing the impact of hallucination by enabling prompts to be augmented with proprietary data. 

Navigating the Knowledge Gap in LLMs

LLMs are computer models capable of comprehending and generating human-like text. They're the AI behind your digital assistant, autocorrect function, and even some of your emails. Their knowledge of the world is often immense, but it isn't perfect. Just like humans, LLMs can reach the limits of their knowledge, but instead of stopping, they tend to make educated guesses or “hallucinate” to complete the task. This can lead to results that contain inaccurate or misleading information. 

CryptoPanic is a news aggregator website for trending news based on social sentiment. It's a good website for keeping up to date on the latest news, as well as using it as a trading signal.

Its compact layout reminds me of hacker news. I was looking through the network requests and got intrigued after finding out that the main data is not in plaintext:

Austin, Texas, is a city filled with music, vibrant nightlife, and some legendary BBQ. It is also one of the great tech hubs of the southern United States, home to a wide variety of tech innovators like Indeed, SolarWinds, and Amazon's Whole Foods. It is simultaneously home to one of the largest tech events in the world, SXSW, as well as many smaller tech events, including BSides Austin 2023.

Like other BSides, Austin had informative sessions, a number of training opportunities, and several villages, including capture the flag, lockpicking, and more. Here are just a few of the highlights from this year's excellent event.

One of the most persistent myths surrounding the advent of Artificial Intelligence lies in the fantasy that advanced new technologies carry the "superpower" of being able to address every subject. For some, AI is providential, while for others, it is nothing less than a threat to humanity.

In reality, artificial intelligence technologies cannot solve problems for which they were not designed.

In this blog post, we will explain how to easily create a "Hello, World!" module in Magento 2. Take note that the concept of local/community/core/folders only existed in Magento 1 and we don’t use them in Magento 2. 

Steps To Create the Hello, World! Module

All of our custom modules in Magento 2 go under the app/code directory. The first step towards creating a module in Magento 2 is to create a folder inside your project directory named after the module. This will be where all the files related to the module will reside. The modules have a 2-part naming structure; i.e., Namespace/Module. This is so that the modules can be organized more efficiently.