TorrentFreak: Popcorn Time Warns Users Against Malware and Scams
Popcorn Time has issued a warning against scammers who abuse the popular brand to trap people into downloading malware or paying for access. To guide users in the right direction and prevent future...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: UI Fail: How Our User Interfaces Help to Ruin Lives
A couple of months ago, in Seeking Anecdotes Regarding "Older" Persons' Use of Web Services, I asked for stories and comments regarding experiences that older users have had with modern Web systems,...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Vulnerability announced for Adobe...
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View ArticleKrebs on Security: Adobe to Patch Hacking Team’s Flash Zero-Day
Adobe Systems Inc. said today it plans to issue a patch on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is reportedly being exploited in active attacks. The flaw was...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Self-hosting projects with Gogs
In May, we noted the problems that GIMP and other free-software projects have encountered of late with the SourceForge project-hosting service. While there are plenty of alternative hosting providers...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: More on Hacking Team
Read this: Hacking Team asked its customers to shut down operations, but according to one of the leaked files, as part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it could have killed their operations...
View Articlexkcd.com: 90s Kid
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday, July...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: SSL, SSL – Where Art Thou SSL?,...
In the security community, the deprecation of SSL has been hailed as a good thing by almost everyone. Not only has SSL been deprecated, its been deprecated with extreme prejudice, and with extreme...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Damages Debt Doubles, No One Pays a Penny
The four individuals convicted of operating The Pirate Bay were all ordered to pay copyright holders millions in damages but to date none have paid a penny. Pirate Bay financier and former...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: OSMC stable release
Liz: We first met Sam Nazarko early in 2012 when he was still at school, in the sixth form. He’d been working on a packaged version of XBMC, the open-source media player, specifically built for the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Amazon Is Analyzing the Personal Relationships of Its...
This is an interesting story of a reviewer who had her reviewer deleted because Amazon believed she knew the author personally. Leaving completely aside the ethics of friends reviewing friends' books,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Debian to switch back to ffmpeg
After nearly a year of consideration, the Debian project has decided to switch back to the ffmpeg multimedia library at the expense of its fork libav. See this wiki page for a summary of the current...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Censoring Pirate Sites is Counterproductive, Research Finds
A new study has found that blocking access to torrent and linking sites results in the opposite effect. Instead of driving people towards legal websites and services, many of the blocked sites simply...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated bind (denial of service) and flashplugin (code execution). Debian has updated bind9 (denial of service). Debian-LTS has updated linux-ftpd-ssl (segmentation fault). openSUSE has...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] A preview of PostgreSQL 9.5
The PostgreSQL 9.5 alpha release is now available for testing. In this feature article, PostgreSQL core team member Josh Berkus discusses the need for an alpha release and introduces a number of the...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Finnish Decision is Win for Internet Trolls
In a win for Internet trolls and teenage cybercriminals everywhere, a Finnish court has decided not to incarcerate a 17-year-old found guilty of more than 50,000 cybercrimes, including data breaches,...
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Darknet - The Darkside: Hacking Team Hacked – What You Need To Know
So the Internet has been blowing up for the last few days about an Italian information security company called Hacking Team getting pwned – they were already pretty famous for their software RCS...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Thursday, July...
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View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 9, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 9, 2015 is available.
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