TorrentFreak: Steal This Show S01E04: The Future of P2P?
Today we bring you the fourth episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing the latest file-sharing and copyright news. In this episode we talk with two co-founders of the peer-to-peer startup The...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Rare Movie Piracy Case Sees Men Face Eight Years in Jail
In a rare case of Internet piracy being prosecuted in Hungary, four men behind a previously raided site now face up to eight years in jail. The defendants, which include a pensioner and the technical...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Our growing team (and how you can join it)
Today we’re delighted to welcome two new colleagues to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and to launch a recruitment campaign to find even more outstanding people to join our growing team. First, meet the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: IT Security and the Normalization of Deviance
Professional pilot Ron Rapp has written a fascinating article on a 2014 Gulfstream plane that crashed on takeoff. The accident was 100% human error and entirely preventable -- the pilots ignored...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Premier League Expands UK Pirate Site Blockades
Major UK Internet providers have been ordered to block access to dozens of domain names belonging to popular sports streaming sites. The Football Association and Premier League recently submitted...
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Darknet – The Darkside: dnscat2 – DNS Tunnel Tool
This DNS tunnel tool named dnscat2 creates an encrypted tunnel over the DNS protocol primarily as a command-and-control (C&C) channel for penetration testers as outbound DNS is rarely blocked in...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Monday
Arch Linux has updated dhcpcd (denial of service), gajim (man-in-the-middle), wireshark-cli (multiple vulnerabilities), wireshark-gtk (multiple vulnerabilities), wireshark-qt (multiple...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash Had the Most Discovered...
Interesting analysis: Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this year? The winner is none other than Apple's Mac OS X, with 384 vulnerabilities. The runner-up? Apple's iOS,...
View ArticleLWN.net: US military still SHAckled to outdated DoD PKI infrastructure...
Netcraft reports that the US Department of Defense (DoD) is still issuing SHA-1 signed certificates, and using them to secure connections to .mil websites. "The DoD is America's largest government...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 2016-01-12 търсене на проби от големия китайски firewall
Добрите хора, дето анализират активните проби на големия китайски firewall са пуснали инструменти за преглеждане на логове – bz2 или директно git clone...
View ArticleErrata Security: Powerball lessons for infosec
"Powerball" is a 44-state lottery whose prize now exceeds $1 billion, so there is much attention on it. I thought I'd draw some lessons for infosec.The odds of a ticket winning the top prize is 1 in...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Police Drop Investigation Into Pirate Bay Suspect
The investigation following a raid involving The Pirate Bay more than a year ago has been scaled back. The prosecutor handling the case says the investigation into one of the key suspects has now been...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
Dan Aldred, the teacher we all wish we had, has been at it again. Today, he’s been making a Sense HAT version of that old-fashioned standard, Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock (actually invented by Sam...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: A Millennial’s 5 Tech Resolutions for 2016
In 2015, I read about the dangerous and risky actions of my generation. We have been dubbed the greatest internal risk to companies. Security experts are concerned that our laissez faire attitude...
View ArticleLWN.net: Mozilla shutting down Persona
Mozilla has announced that it will be shutting down the persona.org authentication service in November. It has been two years since Persona was "transitioned to community ownership"; now the other shoe...
View ArticleLWN.net: Top 10 open source legal developments in 2015 (Opensource.com)
Mark Radcliffe writes about important legal developments from 2015, including the first ruling on GPLv3 (in Germany): "In this case, the user cured its breach within the necessary period, but refused...
View ArticleLWN.net: Ansible 2.0 released
Version 2.0 of the Ansible configuration management system has been released. "This is by far one of the most ambitious Ansible releases to date, and it reflects an enormous amount of work by the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Accused ‘Pirates’ Win Class-Action Settlement From Rightscorp...
Piracy monetization firm Rightscorp and several copyright holders, including Hollywood studio Warner Bros, have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over intimidating robo-calls. The defendants will...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Hackster AWS IoT Mega Contest
The AWS IoT Mega Contest (brought to you by AWS and the great team at Hackster) has been extended until January 31, 2016. We already have over 850 participants, nearly 300 project ideas, and 45...
View ArticleLWN.net: Tuesday’s security advisories
Fedora has updated kernel (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), lighttpd (F23; F22: denial of service), nghttp2 (F22: code execution), qemu (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), and wireshark (F23: multiple...
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