yovko in a nutshell: Don’t spoof the momentum
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View ArticleKrebs on Security: The Lingering Mess from Default Insecurity
The Internet of Things is fast turning into the Internet-of-Things-We-Can't-Afford. Almost daily now we are hearing about virtual shakedowns wherein attackers demand payment in Bitcoin virtual currency...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Betting Ticket Forged Based on Selfie
This is an interesting story. Someone posts a photograph of herself holding a winning horse-race betting ticket, and someone else uses the data from the photograph to forge the ticket and claim the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview
Mozilla has announced the availability of a developer preview for version 2.5 of Firefox OS. New features include an add-on mechanism, tracking protection, and more. There is also a version of the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Thursday’s security advisories
Arch Linux has updated flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities) and powerdns (denial of service). Fedora has updated lxc (F22; F21: directory traversal). Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (multiple...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Effective Renewable Energy Policies Spur Investment and...
Today we have a very special guest post. My colleague Shannon Kellogg is a senior member of our Public Policy team. He has an interesting perspective on the role of public policies for renewable...
View ArticleLet's Encrypt: Public Beta: December 3, 2015
Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate. There will no longer be a...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Microsoft Patch Tuesday followup:...
As a follow-up to the this months Microsoft Patch Tuesday. It appears that Microsoft has quietlyre-released the problematic KB3097877fix. The original was reportedly causing some versions ofOutlook to...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Oracle WebLogic Server:...
Lost in the hoopla around Microsoft and Adobe patch Tuesday was a critical patch released by Oracle which addressed CVE-2015-4852. CVE-2105-4852is a critical vulnerability in Apache Commons which...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Filmmakers Sue Dutch State Over Lost Piracy Revenue
A coalition of Dutch film producers and distributors has today announced a lawsuit against the local Government. The filmmakers argue that the authorities are not doing enough to combat piracy and want...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Cisco Cloud Web Security DNS...
We have received a report that a domain critical in delivering the Cisco Cloud Web Security product had for a while earlier today been hijacked. The report indicates thatthe DNS entryies...
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AWS Security Blog: Introducing IAM Console Search
We continually review your input submitted via the Feedback link on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console. Based on our recent review of that feedback, one of the features most...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Testing the Usability of PGP Encryption Tools
"Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client," by Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Daniel Zappala, and Kent Seamons. Abstract: This paper presents the results of a...
View ArticleLWN.net: Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users? (Tor blog)
The Tor blog is carrying a post from interim executive director Roger Dingledine that accuses Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) of accepting $1 million from the FBI to de-anonymize Tor users. "There is...
View ArticleAnchor Cloud Hosting: SydStart 2015 and Amazon Web Services
‘The biggest startup conference in Australia’, Syd Start 2015 (October 29-30) brought an impressive line up of international speakers and attracted over 2000 people to Sydney’s Town Hall. The Anchor...
View ArticleAnchor Cloud Hosting: Fleet for Magento – new release available
The Fleet team continue to release new features and improvements to our Magento-as-a-Service platform, Fleet. The highlights for this week’s release include performance improvements, support for custom...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday,...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: UK ‘Pirate’ Blacklist Silently Expands With 170+ Domains
The 'pirate' blocklist operated by the UK's leading Internet service providers has been massively expanded during the past few days. With no public announcement around 170 domains and sub-domains were...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Personal Data Sharing by Mobile Apps
Interesting research: "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps," by Jinyan Zang, Krysta Dummit, James Graves, Paul Lisker, and...
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