Krebs on Security: Skimmers Hijack ATM Network Cables
If you have ever walked up to an ATM to withdraw cash only to decide against it after noticing a telephone or ethernet cord snaking from behind the machine to a jack in the wall, your paranoia may not...
View ArticleLWN.net: Tuesday’s security updates
Debian has updated qemu (multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (more vulnerabilities), qemu-kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), and wordpress (two vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated gajim...
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AWS Security Blog: How to Configure Rate-Based Blacklisting with AWS WAF and...
One security challenge you may have faced is how to prevent your web servers from being flooded by unwanted requests, or scanning tools such as bots and crawlers that don’t respect the crawl-delay...
View ArticleServer Fault Blog: Encrypt all the things!
Let’s talk about encryption. Specifically, HTTPS encryption. If you’ve been following any of the U.S. election debates, encryption is a topic that the politicians want to talk about – but not in the...
View Articlelcamtuf's blog: Automatically inferring file syntax with afl-analyze
The nice thing about the instrumentation used by American Fuzzy Lop is that it allows us to do much more than just, well, fuzzing stuff. For example, for a while now, the fuzzer shipped with a...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Canada Is a Hotbed for Online Piracy, Rightsholders Claim
The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups are unhappy with how the Canadian Government is approaching the problem of online piracy. The country remains very appealing to pirate sites, they...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The 2016 National Threat Assessment
It's National Threat Assessment Day. Published annually by the Director of National Intelligence, the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community" is the US intelligence community's...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Protecting systems with the TPM
"TPM," said Matthew Garrett in his linux.conf.au 2016 talk, stands for "trusted platform module"; it is a tool that is meant to allow a system's owner to decide which software to trust. Some years...
View ArticleGattaNegra's days: Shitty customer service (как не си купих маша за коса)
Напоследък се убеждавам, че ние, нашето племе, си заслужаваме всичкото стриганье и сръбска музика, които можем да понесем, и ще сме си “все така” докато сме търпеливи. През тази година смятам да не...
View ArticleLWN.net: The US government’s “Cybersecurity National Action Plan”
The Obama administration has put out a plan for how it would like to make the net a safer place. There are a lot of topics covered here; toward the end it also mentions that "the Government will work...
View Articlexkcd.com: Hot Dogs
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Non-Existent ‘Pirate Site’ Added to National Blocklist
The voluntary anti-piracy agreement between anti-piracy groups and ISPs in Portugal has resulted in more collateral damage. The country's piracy blocklist was recently updated with a non-existent...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Dallas Buyers Club Gives Up Chasing Pirates in Australia
Dallas Buyers Club has finally given up on its mission to demand cash settlements from alleged movie pirates in Australia. It's believed the company has made large amounts of money from the activity in...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: 10,000-Year-Old Warfare
Evidence of primitive warfare from Kenya's Rift Valley.
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Meeting educators and learners at Bett 2016
For anyone in the education technology community, January is synonymous with Bett. This trade show has been taking place in London for over thirty years, and now sees over thirty thousand educators,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Warner Pays $14 Million For Illegitimate “Happy Birthday” Claims
After raking in dozens of millions in licensing fees, Warner/Chappell has admitted that it doesn't own the rights to the song "Happy Birthday". The music company has agreed to set aside a $14 million...
View ArticleLWN.net: LibreOffice 5.1 released
The LibreOffice 5.1 release is available. "LibreOffice 5.1's user interface has been completely reorganized, to provide faster and more convenient access to its most used features. A new menu has been...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How to Build Your Own Custom Docker Images
In Getting Started With Docker, I described the basics of downloading and running a Docker image. In this article, I’ll show how to build a LAMP server as an exercise for learning the basics of...
View ArticleLWN.net: SourceForge dumps DevShare
The SourceForge hosting site has announced that it has a new owner (BIZX, LLC, along with Slashdot) and that it will be getting rid of the controversial DevShare program, which was covered here in...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated kscreenlocker (restriction bypass). CentOS has updated sos (C6: information leak). Fedora has updated claws-mail (F22: stack-based buffer overflow), imlib2 (F22: denial of...
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