Lauren Weinstein's Blog: The Three Letter Cure for Web Accessibility and...
A few months ago, in "UI Fail: How Our User Interfaces Help to Ruin Lives" (http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001112.html), I discussed the many ways that modern Web and app interfaces can be...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Insurer Refuses to Cover Cox in Massive Piracy Lawsuit
Trouble continues for one of the largest Internet providers in the United States, with a Lloyds underwriter now suing Cox Communications over an insurance dispute. The insurer is refusing to cover...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: ТихомирДимитров: „Аварията“
Преди доста време, отегчен и оказал се с малко свободно време, седнах да чета първото пробутано ми като някакъв вид фантастика нещо. Наглед непретенциозна книжка от неизвестен ми автор… След като я...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: NSA Collected Americans’ E-mails Even After it Stopped...
In 2011, the Bush administration authorized -- almost certainly illegally -- the NSA to conduct bulk electronic surveillance on Americans: phone calls, e-mails, financial information, and so on. We...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] A journal for MD/RAID5
RAID5 support in the MD driver has been part of mainline Linux since 2.4.0 was released in early 2001. During this time it has been used widely by hobbyists and small installations, but there has been...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New AWS Quick Start – Sitecore
Sitecore is a popular enterprise content management system that also includes a multi-channel marketing automation component with an architecture that is a great fit for the AWS cloud! It allows...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Join the Alliance –...
With the announcement of Backblaze B2, we keep on growing, and we need some help! We’re looking for two Rebels to join the Alliance, a Senior Network Engineer for our San Mateo office and a Datacenter...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: Amazon ECS improves console first run experience, ability...
Today Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) added a new first run experience that streamlines getting your first containerized application running on ECS. Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Hilton Acknowledges Credit Card Breach
Two months after KrebsOnSecurity first reported that multiple banks suspected a credit card breach at Hilton Hotel properties across the country, Hilton has acknowledged an intrusion involving...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How to Control Hardware With the Raspberry...
Our last tutorial in this series used the Raspberry Pi 2’s 40 pin header to connect a touch screen to the Pi. This time around we'll take a look at how to directly interact with hardware -- in this...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: NSA Lectures on Communications Security from 1973
Newly declassified: "A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II)," the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA), 1973. (The document was initially declassified in 2008....
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Breach at IT Automation Firm LANDESK
LANDESK, a company that sells software to help organizations securely and remotely manage their fleets of desktop computers, servers and mobile devices, alerted employees last week that a data breach...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
Debian has updated libcommons-collections3-java (unsanitized input data) and symfony (two vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated putty (memory corruption). Fedora has updated grub2 (F23: Secure Boot...
View ArticleApplication Management Blog: AWS CloudFormation Security Best Practices
The following is a guest post by Hubert Cheung, Solutions Architect. AWS CloudFormation makes it easy for developers and systems administrators to create and manage a collection of related AWS...
View ArticleLWN.net: Software Freedom Conservancy Launches 2015 Fundraiser
Software Freedom Conservancy has announced a major fundraising effort. "Pointing to the difficulty of relying on corporate funding while pursuing important but controversial issues, like GPL...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Busted Pirate Told to Get 200K YouTube Hits or Face Huge Fine
A software pirate is facing the most unusual punishment ever seen in a copyright infringement action. The man lost a case brought by an anti-piracy group but couldn't pay damages, so instead agreed to...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
Of all the things we do at Raspberry Pi, driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important. Even in the developed world, a programmable computer is a luxury item for a lot of...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Judge Worries That Piracy Lawsuits Will Flood Courts
The chief judge of an IP court in Finland has expressed concern that 'copyright-troll' piracy lawsuits will cause chaos if a law firm follows through with threats to sue hundreds of Internet users....
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Darknet - The Darkside: Dell Backdoor Root Cert – What You Need To Know
So a few days ago the Internet exploded with chatter about a Dell backdoor root cert AKA a rogue root CA, almost exactly like what happened with Lenovo and Superfish. It started with this Reddit thread...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Supreme Court Opens Door for Pirate Site Blockades in Germany
The German Supreme Court has today opened the door for ISP blockades of copyright infringing sites. In a landmark decision the court ruled that ISPs can be required to block websites if copyright...
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