Object-Oriented Malware

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I work in a security position and one thing I have heard a lot of confusion about is some of the generations of newer infections and why even newer machine learning and AI based AV solutions cannot detect some of these infections. I am not aiming to do a largely technical tear down of any of these threats as there are labs with better resources and who are more knowledgeable who can do a far better job than I could hope to at this point (there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into tearing an infection apart).… Read the rest

How To Pick A Chinese Dictionary

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One thing a lot of people struggle with when learning Chinese is what dictionary to use. A dictionary seems like something which should be relatively simple, but it requires a lot of thought and effort to select in Chinese. The difference between a good dictionary and a bad dictionary can save you or cost you hours for no good reason. Digital dictionaries can resolve a lot of these issues, but there are still good reasons for physical dictionaries and also some concerns for digital dictionaries which I will cover later.… Read the rest

Using DISM and SFC to Fix Windows Issues

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DISM and SFC are both tools built into modern Windows systems which can be used to fix a large number of issues. This article is only going to cover some of the basics for DISM, so keep that in mind. The features we are going to cover with DISM are only included on Windows 8 and newer. SFC has been around forever pretty much, but still remains useful for newer Windows builds because of the constant upgrades it has received.… Read the rest

Variables Are the Spice of Life

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This is the third entry in my Lua Tutorial series. See here for an introduction for this series, or here for our previous entry covering “Hello World”.

We can print to the screen now and see all the fun math operators Lua has, but we really can’t do anything of use yet. We’re going to cover the basics of variables and getting user input so we can actually start doing some fun stuff with Lua.… Read the rest

3 Good Shows to Learn Chinese

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Introduction

China has no shortage of TV shows, but not all of them are really useful for a language learner which isn’t almost entirely fluent. There are a couple shows I’ve found over the years which were extremely useful when I was less fluent, but which still remained useful as I got more fluent. This list includes 3 of the best I’ve found, and we’re going to steer clear of kid shows even though some would arguably be better from a language learner’s perspective.… Read the rest

Hello Lua!

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This is the second entry in my Lua Tutorial series. See here for an introduction for this series, or here for our next entry covering variables.

Our first tutorial is going to address writing a basic Lua program. We’re then going to expand over some of the basic features of Lua as well. The goal is to cover using the Lua interpreter as installed, basic printing, and some basic language functions which will be of use down the line.… Read the rest