Summary: <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul> <li> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/snap">Digital Ocean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/snap">Apply our promo snapocean after you create your account, and get a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: snapocean</li> <li> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techsnap.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techsnap.ting.com">Save $25 off a device, or get $25 in service credits!</a> Promo Code: Visit techsnap.ting.com</li> <li> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ixsystems.com/techsnap">iXSystems</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ixsystems.com/techsnap">Get a system purpose built for you.</a> Promo Code: Tell them we sent you!</li> </ul><p>Links:</p><ul> <li> <a title="Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@umpox/be-careful-what-you-copy-invisibly-inserting-usernames-into-text-with-zero-width-characters-18b4e6f17b66">Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters</a> — Zero-width characters are invisible, ‘non-printing’ characters that are not displayed by the majority of applications.</li> <li> <a title="Incident Post-Mortem and Security Advisory" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-04-03-incident-post-mortem">Incident Post-Mortem and Security Advisory</a> — On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:04 UTC a database query was accidentally run against our production database which truncated all tables.</li> <li> <a title="As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/its-not-just-spectre-researchers-reveal-more-branch-prediction-attacks/">As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered</a> — New attack focuses on a different part of the branch prediction system.</li> <li><a title="BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor - asplos18.pdf" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/asplos18.pdf">BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor - asplos18.pdf</a></li> <li><a title="Mathew has a neat use for Terraform" rel="nofollow" href="https://pastebin.com/dyBfm9Yc">Mathew has a neat use for Terraform</a></li> <li><a title="Del says Learn just one thing... " rel="nofollow" href="https://pastebin.com/GuiSEDkz">Del says Learn just one thing... </a></li> <li><a title="Mat Man has some great tips" rel="nofollow" href="https://pastebin.com/aX8Tukhs">Mat Man has some great tips</a></li> <li><a title="Ben says you might already be doing it" rel="nofollow" href="https://pastebin.com/1kETQQaG">Ben says you might already be doing it</a></li> <li><a title="Mr S with a advice from recruiting stand point." rel="nofollow" href="https://pastebin.com/chU9RJeC">Mr S with a advice from recruiting stand point.</a></li> </ul>
