lcamtuf's blog: Poland vs the United States: the cutting edge of technology
[ This is the ninth entry in a short series of articles about Poland. To start from the beginning, click here. ] No matter what's your take on the United States, there is no denying that the country...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Police Let Seized ‘Pirate’ Domains Expire, Some Up For Sale
A range of domains seized from 'pirate' sites by the UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit have been released back into the wild. After displaying a banner declaring them criminal operations and...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: A .BUP File Is An OLE File, (Sat,...
Yesterday I mentioned that McAfee quarantine files on Windows (.BUP extension) are actually OLE files. Im going to write a couple of diary entries highlighting some file types that are OLE files, and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Major Streaming Sites Must Be Blocked, Court Rules
After a prolonged legal battle, last year several leading Austrian ISPs were ordered to block major streaming sites Movie4K.to and Kinox.to. All but one of the ISPs appealed but now the Supreme Court...
View ArticleBradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): Did You Actually Read the Lower Court’s...
I'm seeing plenty of people, including some non-profit organizations along with the usual punditocracy, opining on the USA Supreme Court's denial for a writ of certiorari in the Oracle v. Google...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Court Drops Innocent Cox Subscribers From Piracy Lawsuit
Internet provider Cox is not required to hand over the personal details of several subscribers, a federal court in Virginia has ruled. The customers in question simply couldn't be guilty of copyright...
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Source Code in TV and Films: the linux kernel (groups.c) in “Under the Dome...
the linux kernel (groups.c) in “Under the Dome S03E01”, reference source code (line 79+): http://pastebin.com/7SyTZtPm.
View Articlelcamtuf's blog: Poland vs the United States: crime and punishment
[ This is the tenth entry in a short series of articles about Poland and the US. To start from the beginning, click here. ] Throughout much of its history, the United States has been a violent nation....
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Private Copying and UK Copyright Law – Not Dead Yet
Earlier this month several music industry organizations in the UK won a judicial review which renders the Government's decision to allow copying for personal use unlawful. Following this unexpected...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Working with base64, (Sun, Jul 5th)
Last week I received another malicious document with embedded payload encoded with base64. A bit tired of repeating the same manual operations to extract and decode base64 content, I quickly wrote a...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Was Worth Doing Prison Time For, Co-Founder Says
A few weeks after his release from Swedish prison, Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij returned to his home in Laos. Today he shares some thoughts on his time in prison as well as the future that lies...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc1
Linus has released 4.2-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. As Linus explains, 4.2 may, in the end, not end up being the development cycle with the most commits ever, but there...
View Articlexkcd.com: Solar System Questions
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View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel Summit 2015: Call for Proposals
The 2015 Kernel Summit will be held October 26-28 in Seoul, South Korea; the call for discussion proposals is out now. Now would be a good time for those who would like to attend the Summit to come up...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Monday, July...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: BizCN gate actor changes from...
Introduction An actor using gates registered through BizCN recently switched from Fiesta to Nuclear exploit kit (EK). This happened around last month, and we first noticed the change on 2015-06-15. I...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Don’t Be Fooled By Phony Online Reviews
The Internet is a fantastic resource for researching the reputation of companies with which you may wish to do business. Unfortunately, this same ease-of-use can lull the unwary into falling for...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 07/06/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Jurassic World.' 'The Longest Ride' completes the top three.Source:...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: ‘Pirate’ Site Admin Ordered to Pay Hollywood $12.8m
The operator of a forum which linked to Hollywood movies, TV shows, music and software has been hit with a massive claim for damages. After previously being sentenced to one year in jail, the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: NSA German Intercepts
On Friday, WikiLeaks published three summaries of NSA intercepts of German government communications. To me, the most interesting thing is not the intercept analyses, but this spreadsheet of...
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