Krebs on Security: Happy 6th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!
You know you're getting old when you can't remember your own birthday (a reader tipped me off). Today is the sixth anniversary of this site's launch! KrebsOnSecurity turns 6! I'm pretty sure that's...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Tuesday
Arch Linux has updated flashplugin, lib32-flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), libpng (code execution), and openvpn (information disclosure). Fedora has updated activemq (F22: unsafe...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: PayPal Authentication Still Substandard
Brian Krebs has the story. Bottom line: PayPal has no excuse for this kind of stuff. I hope the public shaming incents them to offer better authentication for its customers.
View ArticleLWN.net: Zacchiroli: 1 year of Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
Stefano Zacchiroli was the recipient of a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant in January 2015. He now reports how he spent the money. "On grant money I've attended LibrePlanet 2015...
View Articlexkcd.com: 2016 Conversation Guide
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View ArticleКлошкодил: 32c3 – ден трети
Ден трети на 32c3. (да отбележа, пиша това след whiskey workshop-а по събрани бележки) Започнах деня с “In)Security of Embedded Devices’ Firmware – Fast and Furious at Large Scale” – лекция, в която се...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Hive-CM8 Apologizes For Leaking Hateful Eight DVD Screener
The group behind the controversial leak of screeners this holiday season has apologized for leaking The Hateful Eight before its premiere. In an unprecedented announcement Hive-CM8 say they never...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Another Scandal Resulting from E-mails Gone Public
A lot of Pennsylvania government officials are being hurt as a result of e-mails being made public. This is all the result of a political pressure to release the emails, and not an organizational...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: Year in Review | The Top Blogs of 2015
Before we push full steam ahead into 2016, let’s take a moment to revisit the Beyond Bandwidth posts that captured your attention in 2015. As one would expect, many of our most popular blogs mirrored...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Google Asked to Remove 558 Million “Pirate” Links in 2015
Copyright holders asked Google to remove more than 560,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine in 2015. The staggering number is an increase of 60% compared to the year before....
View ArticleLWN.net: Wednesday’s security advisories
Debian-LTS has updated mono (code execution from 2009). Fedora has updated arts (F23: privilege escalation), kdelibs3 (F23: privilege escalation), mono (F23: code execution from 2009), and ruby (F23:...
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Darknet – The Darkside: Linode DDoS Attack – Merry Xmas Sysadmins
So the Linode DDoS attack – seems like this xmas has been a terrible time for sys admins, along with what happened to Steam and A Small Orange (100+ hours down). A whole lot of work during the most...
View ArticleLWN.net: In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
Sad news: Ian Murdock has passed away. "Ian was perhaps best known professionally as the founder of the Debian project, which he created while still a student at Purdue University, where he earned his...
View ArticleLWN.net: Glass Half: The latest open movie from the Blender Institute...
Opensource.com introduces the latest open movie from the Blender Institute, Glass Half. "Like all of the other open movie projects released by the Blender Institute, Glass Half has been released under...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 32c3 – ден четвърти
И последен ден на конгреса. (личеше си, че някакво количество хора са си тръгнали, стана по-хладно и имаше повече въздух за дишане. Това 1.2mw топлина не си е работа…) Почнах с лекцията за searchable...
View ArticleSource Code in TV and Films: The Intern (2015) PHP/HTML/CSS and compiling...
The Intern (2015) PHP/HTML/CSS and compiling something for Android?
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Movie Studios Sue Fan-Funded Star Trek Spin-Off
Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios are suing the crowdfunded Star Trek spin-off "Prelude to Axanar." The makers initially aimed for a $10,000 budget to start the project, but have raised close to a...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Cory Doctorow on Software Security and the Internet of...
Cory Doctorow has a good essay on software integrity and control problems and the Internet of Things. He's writing about self-driving cars, but the issue is much more general. Basically, we're going to...
View ArticleКлошкодил: Равносметка 2015
И кратка равносметка на 2015: – Приключих с първия пас на редактирането на Reverse engineering for beginners, и може да помисля за втори в/у новите неща, които са се появили. – Правихме пак курс по...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2015
Popular torrent sites get millions of visitors every day, but what have all of those people been searching for? Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2015, a list of the top 50 most searched for...
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