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Episode 363: Tips from the Top

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Getting started or getting ahead in IT is a moving target, so we’ve crowd sourced some of the best tips and advice to help.

Plus a tricky use of zero-width characters to catch a leaker, a breakdown of the new BranchScope attack, and a full post-mortem of the recent Travis CI outage.

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    • Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters
    — Zero-width characters are invisible, ‘non-printing’ characters that are not displayed by the majority of applications.
  • Incident Post-Mortem and Security Advisory
    • — On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:04 UTC a database query was accidentally run against our production database which truncated all tables.
  • As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered
    • — New attack focuses on a different part of the branch prediction system.
  • BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor - asplos18.pdf
  • Mathew has a neat use for Terraform
  • Del says Learn just one thing...
  • Mat Man has some great tips
  • Ben says you might already be doing it
  • Mr S with a advice from recruiting stand point.
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