Krebs on Security: Breached Credit Union Comes Out of its Shell
Notifying people and companies about data breaches often can be a frustrating and thankless job. Despite my best efforts, sometimes a breach victim I'm alerting will come away convinced that I am not...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: DVDFab Says No Crack For Next-Gen Blu-ray Discs
The company behind the popular DVDFab software has announced it will not be supporting decryption of the enhanced Advanced Access Content System that will be used to protect new Ultra HD (4K UHD)...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Four Years of Pi
We are going to be doing some celebrating here at Pi Towers on Monday: February 29 is the 4th anniversary (or 1st, if you’re prissy about leap years) of the first sales of the Raspberry Pi 1. We’ll...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: The Linux Mint Backdoor: How Bad Was It?
It was worse than thought, but a lot better than it could have been. This past Saturday, February 20, it was discovered that one of the most popular Linux desktop distributions had its installation...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated lib32-libssh2 (man-in-the-middle). Debian has updated gajim (message interception) and xerces-c (code execution). Debian-LTS has updated xerces-c (code execution). openSUSE has...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirates Spend Much More Money on Music, Study Shows
A new study has shown that music piracy is still rampant in the United States with 57 million people between the ages of 13 and 50 accessing music through unauthorized sources. Interestingly, however,...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: Using Amazon API Gateway as a proxy for DynamoDB
Andrew Baird, AWS Solutions Architect Amazon API Gateway has a feature that enables customers to create their own API definitions directly in front of an AWS service API. This tutorial will walk you...
View ArticleLWN.net: New stable kernels
The 4.4.3, 3.14.62, and 3.10.98 stable kernels have been released by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Each includes numerous updates throughout the tree.
View ArticleDarknet – The Darkside: Veil Framework – Antivirus Evasion Framework
The Veil-Framework is a collection of red team security tools that implement various attack methods focused on antivirus evasion and evading detection. Antivirus ‘solutions’ don’t often catch the bad...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Tech Writer Peter Joins...
Backblaze has hired well-known Technology Writer Peter Cohen to join their content team. The post Tech Writer Peter Joins Backblaze Ranks appeared first on Backblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Tens of Thousands Protest Netflix’s Expanding VPN-Blockade
Netflix is continuing to expand its VPN and proxy crackdown, affecting VPN 'pirates' but also those who use such services for privacy reasons. The VPN crackdown is meeting fierce resistance from...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: IRS: 390K More Victims of IRS.Gov Weakness
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today sharply revised previous estimates on the number of citizens that were hit by tax refund fraud since 2014 thanks to a security weakness in the IRS's own...
View ArticleМедийно право : Нова договореност за Обединеното кралство в ЕС
В Официален вестник на ЕС: Нова договореност за Обединеното кралство в рамките на Европейския съюз. Какво договориха държавите: извадка от заключенията на Европейския съвет от 18 — 19 февруари 2016...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Groups Fear Release Delays After AnyDVD Shutdown
This week software maker SlySoft, known for its popular Blu-Ray software AnyDVD, shut down citing legal troubles. Sources from several well-known pirate groups inform TorrentFreak that the victory is a...
View ArticleLWN.net: SFLC: The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues
The Software Freedom Law Center weighs in on the ZFS controversy with a long and somewhat academic posting. The TL;DR is that it depends on what the kernel developers want. "No existing record...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: File-Sharing Site’s PayPal Account Returns After EFF Intervention
The EFF has successfully intervened in a dispute between classic file-sharing service Soulseek and PayPal. In 2015 and after 14 years of business together PayPal nuked Soulseek's ability to receive...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: YTS / YIFY Has a Company in the UK & It’s About to Close Down
YTS was one of the world's most popular torrent sites until it was shut down by the MPAA last year. However, at least on paper the site might still exist since it is owned by a company registered in...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 2016-02-28 BGP workshop
Още се освестявам от снощното празнуване на крокодиловоден, та ще го описвам по-нататъка. In other news, с Мариян мислим да правим BGP workshop. Ще се случи в initlab, като датата не е ясна, има един...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: FBI Busts Movie Industry Insider for DVD Screener Leaks
A 31-year old man from Lancaster has been arrested following an FBI investigation into several leaked DVD-screeners. The man, who worked in the entertainment industry, pleaded guilty to uploading...
View ArticleMarian Marinov/HackMan: Congestion control mechanisms, compared
Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation about congestion control and how it affects long lived connections. So I decided to do a very simple comparison. I created a 100MB file(dd if=/dev/zero...
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