AWS Security Blog: In Case You Missed These: AWS Security Blog Posts from...
In case you missed any of the AWS Security Blog posts from January and February, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Tuesday
CentOS has updated openssl (C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated openssl (multiple vulnerabilities) and perl (ambiguous environment). Debian-LTS has updated linux-2.6 (multiple...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Play: A P2P Distributed Torrent Site That’s Impossible to Shut...
An interesting torrent site has just debuted which has the honor of being almost shutdown-proof. 'Play' has just appeared on Zeronet, a server-less P2P network that utilizes Bitcoin cryptography and...
View ArticleLWN.net: Raspberry Pi 3 is out
The Raspberry Pi 3 has been released and is on sale now for $35. "For Raspberry Pi 3, Broadcom have supported us with a new SoC, BCM2837. This retains the same basic architecture as its predecessors...
View ArticleAWS Security Blog: Announcing the AWS Config Rules Repository: A New...
Today, we’re happy to release the AWS Config Rules repository, a community-based source of custom AWS Config Rules. This new repository gives you a streamlined way to automate your assessment and...
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View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Coverage-guided kernel fuzzing with syzkaller
If your software deals with untrusted user input, it's a good idea to run a fuzzer against the program. For the Linux kernel, the most effective fuzzer of recent years has been Dave Jones's Trinity...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Offers Tech Support to Pirating Kanye West
Kanye West was so outraged when he found out that his new album was being pirated by hundreds of thousands of people he considered taking The Pirate Bay to court. However, in a recent tweet the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Welcoming 40 US Teachers to our Community
In the summer of 2015, President Obama made call to action to create a Nation of Makers within the United States. We made a commitment in response to that call: we would train 100 teachers in digital...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: AnyDVD is Back But Don’t Call Us Pirates, Developer Says
A little more than a week after the closure of owner SlySoft, controversial ripping tool AnyDVD is back. Now operating under the RedFox banner, AnyDVD and friends have skipped to Belize while offering...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
CentOS has updated openssl (C7; C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated graphite2 (F23: unspecified vulnerabilities) and pcre (F23: denial of service). openSUSE has updated openssl...
View ArticleAWS DevOps Blog: Using Locust on AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Distributed Load...
AWS Elastic Beanstalk customers frequently ask how to load test their web applications running on Elastic Beanstalk. Load testing, which allows you to demonstrate and understand how the application...
View ArticleDarknet – The Darkside: DROWN Attack on TLS – Everything You Need To Know
So SSL in general is having a rough time lately, now with the SSLv2 DROWN attack on TLS. And this is not long after Logjam and a while since Heartbleed, POODLE and FREAK. DROWN is a cross-protocol...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Credit Unions Feeling Pinch in Wendy’s Breach
A number of credit unions say they have experienced an unusually high level of debit card fraud from the breach at nationwide fast food chain Wendy's, and that the losses so far eclipse those that came...
View ArticleErrata Security: An open letter to Sec. Ashton Carter
Hi.For security research, I regularly "mass scan" the entire Internet. For example, my latest scan shows between 250,000 and 300,000 devices still vulnerable to Heartbleed. This is legal. This is...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 3, 2016
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 3, 2016 is available.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: French Arrest and Jail Operator of “Full-Stream” Pirate Site
French authorities have arrested the 22-year-old alleged operator of popular streaming site Full-Stream.org. With over a million visitors a month the platform was one of the largest pirate sites in the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Learn more about the Raspberry Pi 3 in The MagPi 43!
As you may remember from earlier in the week, the Raspberry Pi 3 is here! The latest version of the Raspberry Pi is the most powerful one yet, and brings with it a whole host of new features such as...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Sweden’s Supreme Court Asked to Decide Online Piracy Penalties
When file-sharers are investigated and ultimately brought to justice, what kind of punishment should they receive? Are fines enough in some cases or is imprisonment an appropriate response? Sweden's...
View ArticleLWN.net: Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes (ACM Queue)
Five Google developers share the lessons from ten years of container development in this ACM Queue article. "To cope with these kinds of requirements, configuration-management systems tend to invent a...
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