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Gathering data: Scraping the web
Intro A couple of weeks ago I uploaded on my GitHub account the first version of a simple Scraping script. Getting web pages and working with them from a script, when API are not available, can be quite useful. In this case, I “scraped” the CRT.sh website, looking up information about mine. Nothing aggressive, one…
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Gathering Security Data: Tests with Ansible
Goal for today Gather Configuration data from Linux boxes. As the saying goes: “You can’t manage what you don’t know”. Well, today is about just that (with focus on IT Security). Introduction This is part of a series of posts about gathering security data (see for example: Shodan API tests or More external data sources…
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A revelation: R Futures
Intro I have been accepting (NOT complaining about) R limitation of being mono-core, monothread. For a long time. Actually, for years. I even went all the way to using Docker to distribute compute load across CPUs of one (or more) physical machine. It was just something I had “assumed” was like that. But what little…