Krebs on Security: FTC: Tax Fraud Behind 47% Spike in ID Theft
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today said it tracked a nearly 50 percent increase in identity theft complaints in 2015, and that by far the biggest contributor to that spike was tax refund...
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View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Amazon WorkSpaces Update – Support for Audio-In, High DPI...
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a huge fan of . In fact, after checking my calendar, I verified that every blog post I have written in the last 10 months has been done from within my...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Copyright Infringing News Sites Raided and Shut Down
A division of the Italian government responsible for dealing with financial crime has raided and shut down 10 websites accused of illegally distributing subscription editorial content. Operation...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Moving on out
A momentous day: after four years in Mount Pleasant House in Cambridge, we’ve finally outgrown all the available space (insofar as on some days we’re having to sit on each others’ knees), so we’re...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Integrity and Availability Threats
Cyberthreats are changing. We're worried about hackers crashing airplanes by hacking into computer networks. We're worried about hackers remotely disabling cars. We're worried about manipulated counts...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Now Available: Improved Training Course for AWS Developers
My colleague Mike Stroh is part of our sales training team. He wrote the guest post below to introduce you to our newest AWS training courses. We routinely tweak our 3-day AWS technical training...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: News Site Blocked By ISPs For Embedding YouTube Videos
A news site has just been blocked by Portugal's ISPs on copyright infringement grounds. Ultimate Music is operated by journalist Josep Vinaixa who publishes music industry news and sometimes embeds pop...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated lib32-openssl (multiple vulnerabilities) and openssl (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated mysql-5.5 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated gsi-openssh (F23:...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Why Does Twitter Refuse to Shut Down Donald Trump?
A reporter asked me a provocative question some days ago: "Why do you think Twitter hasn't enforced their own Terms of Service rules when it comes to Donald Trump?" I didn't have an immediate answer. I...
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Darknet – The Darkside: hping3 – TCP/IP Packet Assembler & Analyser
hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyser. The interface is inspired to the ping unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: U.S. Govt: Excessive Piracy Punishments Should Be Avoided
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force has released a set of copyright reform proposals. The Government recommends Congress to implement various changes to avoid excessive damages...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Polynesian Squid Hook
From 1909, for squid fishing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
View ArticleLWN.net: New stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernels 3.14.60 and 3.10.96, each containing important updates throughout the tree.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Steal This Show S01E05: P2P takes on Ebay
Today we bring you the fifth episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing the latest file-sharing and copyright news. In this episode we talk with the co-founder of P2P marketplace Open Bazaar...
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Медийно право : ЕСПЧ: Блокиране на достъпа до YouTube – нарушение на...
Стана известно решението на Съда за правата на човека по делото Cengiz and Others v. Turkey. Както и в предходни дела срещу Турция пред ЕСПЧ, предмет на обсъждане са правата на гражданите при блокиране...
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Медийно право : ЕСПЧ: лична неприкосновеност онлайн на работното място
На 12 януари 2016 г. стана известно решението на ЕСПЧ по делото Bărbulescu v Romania. Делоот се отнася до електронното наблюдение на служители от техните работодатели. Жалбоподателят е бил уволнен...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Strike Torrent Search Goes Open Source, After RIAA Debacle
The popular torrent search engine Strike has shut down permanently. Following a lawsuit from the RIAA, developer Andrew Sampson decided to stay away from torrent released projects. To mark the end of a...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Sources: Security Firm Norse Corp. Imploding
Norse Corp., a Foster City, Calif. based cybersecurity firm that has attracted much attention from the news media and investors alike this past year, fired its chief executive officer this week amid a...
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