TorrentFreak: Grumpy Cat Sues Coffee Maker For Copyright Infringement
Grumpy Cat is not happy. Her owners have filed a lawsuit at a California federal court, accusing a coffee maker of exploiting the cat's copyrights and trademarks without permission. In addition to...
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Darknet – The Darkside: Pupy – Open-Source Remote Administration Tool AKA RAT
Pupy is an open-source remote administration tool (RAT), that is cross platform and has an embedded Python interpreter, allowing its modules to load Python packages from memory and transparently access...
View ArticleLWN.net: Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem...
Ars technica reports that the Purism Librem 13 laptop will be available with the virtualization-based Qubes distribution. "Qubes wants to lower the barrier of entry for new users, including...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Monday
Debian has updated bouncycastle (invalid curve attack) and libphp-phpmailer (header injection). Debian-LTS has updated grub2 (code execution). Fedora has updated grub2 (F23: code execution), LibRaw...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Privacy Nightmare: Own a Drone? FAA Wants Your...
Oh goodie. The FAA has announced its ultra-rushed plan for a drone registry -- they desperately wanted to get this on the books before Christmas. It's worse than even the most vocal critics had...
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DevOps Blog: Continuous Delivery for a PHP Application Using AWS...
My colleague Joseph Fontes, an AWS Solutions Architect, wrote the guest post below to discuss continuous delivery for a PHP Application Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Solano Labs....
View ArticleLWN.net: Luu: Files are hard
Here is a lengthy posting from Dan Luu on why it is so hard to safely write files on Unix-like systems. It comes down to a combination of POSIX semantics and filesystem bugs. "Something to note here is...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: 13 Million MacKeeper Users Exposed
The makers of MacKeeper -- a much-maligned software utility many consider to be little more than scareware that targets Mac users -- have acknowledged a breach that exposed the usernames, passwords and...
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AWS Security Blog: AWS Certification Update – ISO 9001 Has 10 New Services in...
Today we’re happy to announce we’ve added 10 new services to our ISO 9001 certification: Amazon CloudFront Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon Simple Email...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: RIAA Defeats Grooveshark “Clone” in Court, Wins $17 Million
The RIAA has scored another win in a prominent piracy lawsuit. The music group has prevailed in its case against the 'reincarnation' of the defunct Grooveshark music service, with a New York federal...
View ArticleLWN.net: Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1511)
The CentOS project has announced the release of CentOS Linux 7 (1511), derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2. "This release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS Linux 7, and...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Week in Review – November 30, 2015
I was super-double-extra busy last week and did not have time to assemble the Week in Review as usual. I’m playing catch-up now! Monday November 30 We announced an AWS Certification Update – ISO 27017....
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AWS DevOps Blog: Setting Up the Jenkins Plugin for AWS CodeDeploy
The following is a guest post by Maitreya Ranganath, Solutions Architect. In this post, we’ll show you how to use the Jenkins plugin to automatically deploy your builds with AWS CodeDeploy. We’ll walk...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Attack Against DNS Root Servers
Has anyone been following the attack against the DNS root servers two weeks ago? Details. I can't precisely explain why, but this feels like someone testing an attack capability. For defense: it's long...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Seven Pirate Bay Domains Have Been Suspended
Following issues last week, more domains linked to The Pirate Bay have also been suspended. The problems, which are related to ICANN's verification system, affect at least seven domains including...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Light painting with a Raspberry Pi
Before we get to the meat of today’s post, we’ve two bits of news. Just over an hour ago we watched the Soyuz rocket carrying British ESA astronaut Tim Peake, who will be in charge of the two Astro Pis...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes
Encryption is an important part of any data protection strategy. Over the past year or two, we have introduced many features that are designed to simplify the task of storing your cloud-based...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: B2 Cloud Storage Opens...
Starting today Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage has moved to Public Beta, meaning anyone can sign up and immediately start using the service. We announced the B2 Private Beta a couple of months ago and since...
View ArticleLWN.net: Collabora and ownCloud release CODE for LibreOffice Online developers
Collabora and ownCloud have announced a partnership, and, as an opening move, have released the "Collabora Online Development Edition." This is a combined distribution consisting of LibreOffice Online...
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