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Hypotheses About What Happened to Facebook

Bozho October 6, 2021

Facebook was down. I’d recommend reading Cloudflare’s summary. Then I recommend reading Facebook’s own account on the incident. But let me expand on that. Facebook published announcements and withdrawals forContinue reading

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Digital Transformation and Technological Utopianism

Bozho September 18, 2021

Today I read a very interesting article about the prominence of Bulgarian hackers (in the black-hat sense) and virus authors in the 90s, linking that to the focus on technicalContinue reading

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Every Serialization Framework Should Have Its Own Transient Annotation

Bozho June 26, 2021

We’ve all used dozens of serialization frameworks – for JSON, XML, binary, and ORMs (which are effectively serialization frameworks for relational databases). And there’s always the moment when you needContinue reading

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A Developer Running For Parliament

Bozho June 15, 2021

That won’t be a typical publication you’d see on a developer’s blog. But yes, I’m running for parliament (in my country, Bulgaria, an EU member). And judging by the currentContinue reading

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The Syslog Hell

Bozho May 9, 2021

Syslog. You’ve probably heard about that, especially if you are into monitoring or security. Syslog is perceived to be the common, unified way that systems can send logs to otherContinue reading

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Developers Are Obsessed With Their Text Editors

Bozho April 30, 2021

Developers are constantly discussing and even fighting about text editors and IDEs. Which one is better, why is it better, what’s the philosophy behind one or the other, which oneContinue reading

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Releasing Often Helps With Analyzing Performance Issues

Bozho December 26, 2020

Releasing often is a good thing. It’s cool, and helps us deliver new functionality quickly, but I want to share one positive side-effect – it helps with analyzing production performanceContinue reading

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Let’s Kill Security Questions

Bozho November 20, 2020

Security questions still exist. They are less dominant now, but we haven’t yet condemned them as an industry hard enough so that they stop being added to authentication flows. ButContinue reading

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Discovering an OSSEC/Wazuh Encryption Issue

Bozho October 12, 2020

I’m trying to get the Wazuh agent (a fork of OSSEC, one of the most popular open source security tools, used for intrusion detection) to talk to our custom backendContinue reading

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Is It Really Two-Factor Authentication?

Bozho September 24, 2020

Terminology-wise, there is a clear distinction between two-factor authentication (multi-factor authentication) and two-step verification (authentication), as this article explains. 2FA/MFA is authentication using more than one factors, i.e. “something youContinue reading

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I’m a software engineer and architect, with expertise in cybersecurity. Currently member of Bulgarian parliament and former minister of electronic governance of Bulgaria.

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