LWN.net: Thanksgiving day security updates
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it, from all of us here at LWN. Happy November 26 to everyone else :) Debian has updated dpkg (code execution), nspr (code execution), python-django...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Huge Security Flaw Can Expose VPN Users’ Real IP-Adresses
A newly discovered vulnerability can expose the real IP-addresses of VPN users with relative ease. The issue, which affects all VPN protocols and operating systems, was uncovered by Perfect Privacy who...
View Articlexkcd.com: Food Combinations
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
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Bradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): Do You Like What I Do For a Living?
[ A version of this blog post was crossposted on Conservancy's blog. ] I'm quite delighted with my career choice. As an undergraduate and even in graduate school, I still expected my career extend my...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: No Pirate Bay Blockade in Sweden, Court Rules
After deliberating for almost a month the Stockholm District Court has decided that copyright holders can not force a Swedish ISP to block the The Pirate Bay. The Court found that Bredbandsbolaget's...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Defending against Actual IT Threats
Roger Grimes has written an interesting paper: "Implementing a Data-Driven Computer Security Defense." His thesis is that most organizations don't match their defenses to the actual risks. His paper...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Did you get a Raspberry Pi Zero?
We gave away something free with our magazine, The MagPi, yesterday. The magazine industry has a concept called “technical sellout”, where more than 80% of copies are bought. You swarmed over UK...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Megaupload Programmer Already Freed From U.S. Prison
Earlier this year Andrus Nomm, one of the Megaupload employees indicted by the United States, was sentenced to a year in prison. Having done a deal with U.S. authorities and testified against Kim...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
CentOS has updated thunderbird (C5; C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated libcommons-collections3-java (code execution) and smokeping (cross-site scripting). Fedora has updated libxml2...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: Zarp – Network Attack Tool
Zarp is a network attack tool centred around the exploitation of local networks. This does not include system exploitation, but rather abusing networking protocols and stacks to take over, infiltrate,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Anti-Piracy Group Stops Prolific KickassTorrent’s Uploader
A KickassTorrents user who uploaded more than 750 pirated files has been ordered to cease his activities by a Dutch court, or face thousands of euros in fines. The case was launched by the local...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Data and Goliath in German
The German edition of Data and Goliath has been published.
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: The Twelve Days of Lambda
Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager The Twelve Days Hours* of Lambda *It’s serverless, so it’s faster 😉 Stuffed with turkey or too many cookies? Not quite ready to face the relatives again? Here are...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Necklace
She's calling it an octopus, but it's a squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
View ArticleLWN.net: Ubuntu Community Council election results posted
The 2015 Ubuntu Community Council (CC) elections have been concluded. The results of the vote, as announced on the Ubuntu Fridge blog, are the seven individuals who will serve on the CC for the next...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : Съд на ЕС: държавна помощ за цифрова телевизия
Стана известно решението на Общия съд по дело T‑461/13 Кралство Испания срещу Европейска комисия с предмет искане за отмяна на Решение 2014/489/ЕС на Комисията от 19 юни 2013 г. относно държавна...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : Съд на ЕС: договори на абонати на...
Стана известно решението на Съда на ЕС по дело C‑326/14 с предмет преюдициално запитване, отправено на основание член 267 ДФЕС от Oberster Gerichtshof (Върховен съд, Австрия) в рамките на...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : ЕСПЧ: принцът на Монако и личният живот на...
Голямата камара на Европейския съд по правата на човека единодушно потвърди решението на Съда по делото Couderc and Hachette Filipacchi Associés v. France (40454/07) , че има нарушение на член 10 от...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Book Publishers Expand UK Pirate Site Blocking
Book publishers are the latest companies to add yet more sites to the UK's unofficial 'pirate' site black list. In recent days another 16 domains were added to the blocklists of ISPs such as BT, Sky,...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : The Pirate Bay: решение в Швеция в очакване...
Ако се разпореди на доставчици на интернет достъп да блокират достъп до сайтове като The Pirate Bay (ТРВ), следва ли разпореждането да се изпълнява? Цялата история на дружеството, съответно на...
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