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Damien Riquet

Taming the Flow: Throttling in Golang with Semaphore Magic

IntroductionIn today’s digital world, APIs serve as the core of modern applications, allowing seamless data exchange and interaction. However, even the most robust and scalable API servers can succumb to the humongous number of incoming requests. Picture this scenario: your finely crafted API server, designed to handle thousands of requests per second, suddenly experiences an unprecedented spike in traffic. Within moments, your server starts to struggle under the weight of the overwhelming load, its response times slowing to a crawl, and in the worst-case scenario, a complete outage occurs.

Targeted Attacks: Redefining Spear Phishing and Business Email Compromise

I’m proud to announce that our latest article pre-print has been published on arxiv! It has also been submitted to a journal, and hopefully be published in the next few months. TL;DR: Cybercrime, a major cause of financial losses and intellectual property theft, often begins with email, the primary means of corporate communication. Spear phishing or Business Email Compromise are rare, damaging email threats. However, literature on targeted attacks is inconsistent, hindering security vendors and researchers from mitigating them.

Hello World!

This is my first post, yay! Nothing much to say apart from that! Feel free to check my publications and about pages if you want to know more about me.