Krebs on Security: Oracle, LifeLock Settle FTC Deception Charges
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission this past week announced it reached settlements with software giant Oracle and identity protection firm LifeLock over separate charges of allegedly deceiving users and...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: EC2 Container Registry – Now Generally Available
My colleague Andrew Thomas wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the new EC2 Container Registry! — Jeff; I am happy to announce that Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is now generally...
View ArticleLWN.net: Android on the desktop: Not really “good,” but better than you’d...
Ars Technica reports that Google has plans to bring Android to desktops and laptops. "We've Frankensteined together a little Android desktop setup using a Nexus 9 and a USB keyboard and mouse to see...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Error 451: There’s Now an HTTP Code for Internet Censorship
Increasingly, Internet providers are being instructed by courts to block access to websites. This measure is often applied against copyright infringing sites, but not always with a proper explanation....
View ArticleSchneier on Security: More Writings on the Second Crypto Wars
Two things to read: "Wanting It Bad Enough Won't Make It Work: Why Adding Backdoors and Weakening Encryption Threatens the Internet," by Meredith Whittaker and Ben Laurie. "The Second Crypto War is Not...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: “Our Christmas tree’s a boy?”
A quick one today. Here’s my favourite Christmas project of 2015, from Joe Corea. Joe’s little girls, aged eight and five, helped with the soldering and casing of the project – but they didn’t know...
View ArticleLWN.net: Green: On the Juniper backdoor
Here's an interesting article from cryptographer Matthew Green on how the Juniper backdoor is the least interesting part of this whole episode. "Thus Dual EC is safe only if you assume no tiny bug in...
View ArticleВелоеволюция: Обществените велосипеди в София
През новата 2016 година Столична община планира въвеждането на система за обществени велосипеди под наем.Във Велоеволюция разгледахме подробностите и ето какво имаме да споделим. За такава полезна...
View ArticleLinux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How to use custom commands in LibreOffice
LibreOffice is one of the most important pieces of free software, allowing many of us to work, study, and share information. Although the software features many tools and capabilities, the spectrum of...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: BPI Removes Anti-Piracy Bosses and Reorganizes
The BPI says that the leaders of both its Content Protection Unit and Head of Internet Investigations will be removed following an anti-piracy shake-up. The music industry group reports that the...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Podcasts – JAWS, Muterra, Betabrand, and DubSmash
Here’s the final batch of interviews that I recorded on Tuesday, September 1 at the AWS Loft in San Francisco as part of the Intel Startup Spotlight for the . Episode 122 was recorded remotely (a first...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: Amazon ECS launches new deployment capabilities; CloudWatch...
Today, we launched two improvements that make it easier to run Docker-enabled applications on Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Launch Amazon EMR Clusters in Private Subnets
My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce you to an important new feature for . — Jeff; Today we are announcing that Amazon EMR now supports launching clusters in Amazon Virtual...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: B2, or not B2, that is...
Since we announced B2 Cloud Storage, many of our existing online backup customers have joined the B2 Beta program and started working with B2. That’s great, but we also know that many more of our...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Tuesday
Debian has updated foomatic-filters (command execution). Fedora has updated bind (F22: two vulnerabilities), bind-dyndb-ldap (F22: two vulnerabilities), dnsperf (F22: two vulnerabilities), firefox...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Routing ‘Feature’ Can Expose VPN Users’ Real IP-Addresses
A VPN is generally touted as an ideal tool to remain anonymous online, but this is more easily said than done. This week ProstoVPN revealed a widespread issue that can in many cases expose the true...
View ArticleLWN.net: WebExtensions in Firefox 45
The Mozilla Add-ons blog takes a look at the work going on around the WebExtensions API. "WebExtensions is currently in an alpha state, so while this is a great time to get involved, please keep in...
View Articlexkcd.com: Christmas Settings
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to the United States, Judge Rules
Following an extradition hearing lasting 10 weeks, today New Zealand District Court Judge Nevin Dawson ruled that Kim Dotcom and his colleagues can indeed be extradited to the United States to face...
View ArticleAnchor Cloud Hosting: Merry Christmas from the Anchor Team
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and joyous New Year from all of us at Anchor! Over the holiday period Anchor will be closed on the following days only: December 25th, December 28th, January 1st....
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