Unboxing a Coil of VVGng Cable
The article about how to blink an LED using Arduino was quite well received by the Tekkix audience. At the end of that article, there was a poll with a long list of topics…
Articles
Dive into insightful articles about the latest in technology and gadgets. Discover in-depth analyses, expert reviews, and thought-provoking features that explore the innovations driving our world forward.
IDOR & UUIDs for PII Leakage
Hello, today I will share with you another report. The vulnerability we will discuss is IDOR. Using it, I was able to expose personally identifiable information (PII…
How to Protect Wealth Using IT and "Hostile" Interfaces?
A good interface should help the user. But what if I say that sometimes a good interface should hinder them?
Routine and the Meaning of Life
Light weekend post, with all that implies: take it with either kind humor or harsh satire, but do not treat it as something serious.
Anomaly detection and leak prevention — how signature-based analysis helps detect internal threats
Hello, tekkix! My name is Alexander Shcherbakov. I will tell you how Privileged Access Management systems help control the actions of privileged users with the help of…
AI hints in code: cognitive crutches or a productivity jetpack?
AI assistants in programming have burst into developers' daily lives at incredible speed. But what lies behind the convenience? Acceleration or superficial thinking?
Codeby.Games. CTF TASK «ТЕТРИС»/«TETRIS»
Welcome to all CTF and ethical hacking enthusiasts on the Red Team! In this article, we will look at how to complete the easy task TETRIS, developed by pentesters from…
In pursuit of the unknown: how an ML model learned to detect malware
Hello everyone! This is Ksenia Naumova. At Positive Technologies, I research malicious network traffic and improve tools for analyzing it at the security expert center.…
"Signal" — sci-fi story
The morning of October 2nd burst into Inga's apartment with an unexpected call. The smartphone screen lit up at the moment when Inga brought a cup of tea to her lips—her…
How we revived DPED: An AI project to enhance mobile photos to DSLR-quality images
Hello, tekkix! The team of the regional scientific and educational center "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analysis" at NSTU named after R. E. Alekseev is here.
We hacked Google Gemini and downloaded its source code
In 2024, we released a post We Hacked Google A.I. for 50,000, which described how our group consisting of Roni “Lupin” Carta, Joseph “rez0” Tacker, and Justin “Rhynorater”…
40,000 tags and not a single password: how we saved the factory from shutdown
Imagine having to replace an airplane engine mid-flight. That’s roughly the situation we found ourselves in when we took on the localization of production systems at…
Retro computer of my dreams. How I assembled it in 2025 and what the result was
Hello, %USERNAME%. Do you remember that feeling when you have a free day and you can put a game disc you bought the day before in the CD-ROM drive right in the morning?…
Emerald AI Personal Prediction Neural Network
In 2023, an international group of students and postgraduates at the Technical University named after George Asachi in Iași began researching the potential of personal…
In Windows, an 8-year security flaw has been discovered that Microsoft does not want to fix
Ignoring vulnerabilities in operating systems or other software products is fundamentally an unimaginable situation. On the contrary, developers always strive to find…
Overview and market map of ML protection platforms
Security Vision
Infrared visitor counter. Why always count heads? Maybe it’s better—count feet, count feet..?
As it is known, a horizontal infrared counter essentially counts not people but interruptions of the horizontal infrared beam caused by their passage. The height of the…
