Schneier on Security: US Identifies and Destroys ISIS Headquarters Because of...
The news media is buzzing about how the US military identified the location of an ISIS HQ because someone there took a photo and posted it. Quoting Air Force General Hawk Carlisle, head of Air Combat...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: Shadow Daemon – Web Application Firewall
Shadow Daemon is a collection of tools to detect, protocol and prevent attacks on web applications. Technically speaking, Shadow Daemon is a web application firewall that intercepts requests and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Facebook Removes RARBG Page After Copyright Complaint
Without any prior warning, Facebook has removed the official page of popular torrent site RARBG after a complaint from a copyright holder. The operator of the site scolds Facebook for the takedown,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Lore
Legends of giant squid go back centuries: In his book "The Search for the Giant Squid" marine biologist Richard Ellis notes that "There is probably no apparition more terrifying than a gigantic,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Let’s Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates
The Let's Encrypt project has announced that it has created the root and intermediate keys and certificates it will use to sign certificates. Let's Encrypt is the no-cost certificate authority...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Introducing: Our...
Our engineering intern Katherine’s reign of “newest intern” is over! Our newest newest intern Caitlin has recently joined the marketing department to help us with some fun tasks! Caitlin is a student...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Study: Swedes View 280m ‘Pirate’ Movies & TV Shows Annually
A new study has revealed the current appetite for 'pirate' content in Sweden. With 29% of adults viewing an estimated 280 million movies and TV shows illegally each year, people are now more likely to...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: How You Can Help to Fix EU Copyright Law
On June 16th 2015, Parliament will vote on how EU copyright reform will develop. On the table are all the sensible proposals: legalize file-sharing, promote peer-to-peer, enable technologies to be...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Now There’s a Popcorn Time For Porn Too
Popcorn Time captured the minds of millions of movie, TV and anime pirates over the past year, but there's one group of video enthusiasts who felt left out. The porn fans. A new Popcorn Time fork named...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Criminals When You Pirate, Criminals When You Pay
Online content pirates are regularly labeled 'thieves' by entertainment industry companies. However, we're now seeing genuine customers being branded as "criminals", simply because they access Netflix...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: BitTorrent’s DHT Turns 10 Years Old
DHT, the much misunderstood, frequently maligned, yet somewhat critical aspect of Bittorrent turned ten recently. Launched initially by the Azureus client (now Vuze), BitTorrent Inc.’s version joined...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Checking for BACNet devices...
Building automation Networks are very common today for intelligent buildings. They interconnect several type of devices like escalators, elevators, power circuits, heating, ventilating and air...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: There Aren’t More Horrible Backroom Deals, We’re Getting Better...
Yet another shady backroom so-deceptively-called "free trade" agreement, TISA, has come to light. Just like all the others, this one seeks to curtail the Internet and civil liberties and benefit...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Monday, June...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: NoScript as a staple in the...
I know weve talked about NoScript here before, however it is something worth discussing on a regular basis, as it is a simple, solid product that works. Whenever I build a new desktop or laptop, one of...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Security...
If you’ve been paying attention in recent years, you might have noticed that just about everyone is losing your personal data. Even if you haven’t noticed (or maybe you just haven’t actually received a...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 06/08/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Run All Night' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service.' 'Chappie' completes the top three.Source:...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Warner Bros. Demands Cash From “Friends” Pirates
The iconic sitcom Friends aired its last episode more than a decade ago, but that doesn't mean Warner Bros. is letting people pirate the show without consequences. Over the past several weeks the movie...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers
Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been...
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