LWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated bind (denial of service) and firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated grub2 (C7: code execution). Debian has updated bind9 (denial of service) and cups-filters...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Trusted Advisor Update – New and Updated Checks
The helps you to provision and configure your AWS resources so as to improve system performance and reliability, increase security, and optimize for cost. We have added some new checks and improved an...
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Darknet – The Darkside: Critical Remote Root Zero-Day In FireEye Appliances
So FireEye doesn’t have a particularly good reputation in the security community, it’s generally not handled responsible disclosure well and it’s even taken a security firm (ERNW) to court over a...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Ubuntu Touch, three years later
Back in early 2013, your editor dedicated a sacrificial handset to the testing of the then-new Ubuntu Touch distribution. At that time, things were so unbaked that the distribution came with mocked-up...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Popcorn Time Fork Goes Dark After MPAA Hounds Developers
The MPAA has not yet given up its fight against Popcorn Time. The movie industry group is reportedly going after a group of developers who launched a "Community Edition" of the popular application....
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: InfoWorld Review – Amazon Aurora Rocks MySQL
Back when I was young, InfoWorld was a tabloid-sized journal that chronicled the growth of the PC industry. Every week I would await the newest issue and read it cover to cover, eager to learn all...
View ArticleAWS DevOps Blog: View AWS CodeDeploy logs in Amazon CloudWatch console
AWS CodeDeploy helps users deploy software to a fleet of Amazon EC2 or on-premises instances. The AWS CodeDeploy agent must be installed and configured on those instances in order for them to be used...
View ArticleLWN.net: An authentication bypass issue in GRUB
The GRUB bootloader (versions 1.98 to 2.02) has an integer underflow issue which can enable a local attacker to bypass authentication on a locked-down system. "Grub2 is the bootloader used by most...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 17, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 17, 2015 is available.
View ArticleErrata Security: All app developers should learn from WhatsApp-v-Brazil...
So Brazil forced the ISPs to shutdown WhatsApp (a chat app) for 48 hours, causing more than a million of their customers to move to Telegram (another chat app). Apparently, this was to punish WhatsApp...
View ArticleYABS: Копнеж
Красива, със очи вълшебни, потъва душата ми, дебне за погледът твоят, неземни, за късче радост да открадне! Очите твои поглед пращат, и в душата неспокойна се захващат, дават й спокойствие, мир,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Kinox.to Operator Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison
A former operator of Kinox.to, Germany's largest pirate streaming site, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for his involvement in the site. Despite the conviction the streaming...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Glasgow Raspberry Pi Day
On Saturday, over 100 educators, STEM ambassadors and children attended the Raspberry Pi Day at the University of Strathclyde. The brainchild of Dr William Bell (who did a lot of the heavy lifting when...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: User Errors Often Compromise Encryption
This should come as no surprise: users often compromise their own security by making mistakes setting up and using their encryption apps. Paper: "On the Security and Usability of Crypto Phones," by...
View ArticleLWN.net: Cannon: Why Python 3 exists
Brett Cannon reminds the world why the Python developers decided to create Python 3 — and acknowledges that the transition could have been done better. "This point of avoiding bugs is a big deal that...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: BitTorrent Spy Tool Aims to Reduce Company File-Sharing
A new report has revealed how companies across a range of industries are participating in BitTorrent file-sharing networks. Educational establishments come out on top with close to 60% participation...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Thursday
Arch Linux has updated ruby (code execution). CentOS has updated bind (C7; C6; C5: denial of service), bind97 (C5: denial of service), and firefox (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: Иощепациентскибезумия
(Продължение на този и този записи.) Произходът им е най-различен. Някои са преводи от руски и англоезични колекции (благодаря на един коментар, който ми подхвърли идеята). Други са ми разказвани от...
View ArticleLWN.net: Linux Foundation announces project to “advance blockchain technology”
The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative project to "develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework" to allow developers to build "robust, industry-specific...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway...
You can use to create a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud. Within the VPC, you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also use...
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