Monthly Archives: November 2014

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Niall Cooling

Director at Feabhas Limited

Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.

Latest posts by Niall Cooling (see all)

• Using final in C++ to improve performance - November 14, 2022
• Understanding Arm Cortex-M Intel-Hex (ihex) files - October 12, 2022
• Working with Strings in Embedded C++ - February 4, 2022

A number of people have been in touch with me about the fact that our Linux courses use an embedded target system that deploys BusyBox as standard and that there’s a “known exploit” doing the rounds called BashLite.SMB – this is obviously a cause for alarm!… Right?

WRONG!! Never one to shy away from defending my beloved Linux I wanted to make a quick public service announcement to say that this appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill piece of malware riding […]

• About
• Latest Posts

Niall Cooling

Director at Feabhas Limited

Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.

Latest posts by Niall Cooling (see all)

• Using final in C++ to improve performance - November 14, 2022
• Understanding Arm Cortex-M Intel-Hex (ihex) files - October 12, 2022
• Working with Strings in Embedded C++ - February 4, 2022

No I’ve not lost the plot, this was actually the headline from Electronics back in August 1985!

Recently my father was clearing out his loft at home and came across a couple of bagfuls of “rubbish” (garbage) which was full of various memorabilia from my degree days.  Among the various artefacts, to my great surprise, I came across a photocopy  of this article.

For those of you, like me, who were involved in electronics at that time, it’s a real trip down […]