BGP Hijacking Explained: How HTTPS Validation Can Be Attacked

BGP Hijacking Explained: How HTTPS Validation Can Be Attacked

And why Let’s Encrypt is moving toward validating domains from more locations. Imagine someone obtaining a perfectly valid HTTPS certificate for your domain. Your servers haven’t been compromised. Your private key hasn’t been stolen. Nobody has changed your DNS records. Yet a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) has somehow been convinced that an attacker controls your … Read more

Atlassian JIRA MCP Server in Cursor – How to Add and Configure

How to add JIRA MCP Server in Cursor (@devsdaily)

Why integrate Atlassian JIRA MCP Server with Cursor? Atlassian JIRA MCP Server in Cursor lets developers connect Jira and Confluence directly into their coding environment using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This integration eliminates context switching, allowing you to query issues, update tasks, and fetch documentation without leaving Cursor. This guide shows you how to … Read more

Kafka for .NET Core: A Comprehensive Guide to Event-Driven Messaging

Kafka was initially developed by LinkedIn in 2011 to address the demand for high-velocity event ingestion and processing. Traditional messaging paradigms, such as publish-subscribe brokers and queue-based architectures, struggled with handling large-scale, fault-tolerant event streams. Kafka addressed these limitations with a distributed commit log model, ensuring persistent, replayable, and highly scalable message distribution.

az login error: Authentication failed against tenant * ‘Default Directory’: (pii)

Authentication failed against tenant xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx 'Default Directory': (pii).

So It happened today that I got the error below while running “az login” command in Windows Terminal. Authentication failed against tenant <-guid-> ‘Default Directory’: (pii). Status: Response_Status.Status_InteractionRequired, Error code: 3399614476, Tag: 557973645 The az login command was ran everytime, I was prompted to select an account I had logged in previously but then the … Read more

Propeller: The Open-Source Solution Revolutionizing Real-Time Communication

Imagine building a chat application, real-time analytics dashboard, or online collaborative tool. These all require instant, reliable, and scalable communication between frontend and backend. Propeller solves this problem — an open-source platform for seamless, bi-directional real-time communication. Let’s explore what Propeller is, how it works, and why it’s a game-changer for real-time communication. What Is Propeller? Propeller … Read more

21 Essential Tips for Writing Clean Code in C# (.NET)

21 Essential Tips for Writing Clean Code in C# .NET

Clean code is the cornerstone of maintainable and scalable software. As developers, we strive to write code that’s not only functional but also readable and efficient. In this blog post, we’ll explore 21 essential tips for writing clean code in C# (.NET), ranging from basic principles to more advanced practices. Let’s dive in! 1. Use … Read more

Understanding Entity, Model, ViewModel, and DTO, in C#

Contents Quick Reference Detailed Breakdown 1. Entities – Database Models in Entity Framework Core 2. Models – C# Business Logic Implementation 3. ViewModels – ASP.NET MVC and Blazor Data Presentation 4. DTOs – .NET Microservices and API Communication Common Pitfalls and Best Practices Real-World Example: Building a .NET Enterprise Blog System Best Practices Summary Key … Read more

KMAC: The Modern Heavyweight in Cryptographic Authentication

A complete developer guide for implementing Keccak Message Authentication Code (KMAC) in .NET applications. This guide covers everything from basic concepts to advanced implementation patterns, security considerations, and performance optimization techniques. Ideal for developers working with cryptographic authentication in .NET 9 and later versions. Quick Summary (TL;DR ): KMAC (Keccak Message Authentication Code) is a NIST-standardized … Read more