TorrentFreak: Prominent Legal Experts Rally Behind Megaupload
A group of prominent legal experts, including the Cato Institute, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Institute for Justice have come out in support of Megaupload and Kim...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Pi Wars – annual public robot Olympics
Liz: This week’s all about community. Mike Horne and Tim Richardson are old, old friends of the Raspberry Pi project. They’ve been running the Cambridge Raspberry Jam for ages – it’s one of the Jams we...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Risks of Mandating Back Doors in Encryption Products
Monday a group of cryptographers and security experts released a major paper outlining the risks of government-mandated back-doors in encryption products: Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Risks of Mandating Backdoors in Encryption Products
Tuesday, a group of cryptographers and security experts released a major paper outlining the risks of government-mandated back-doors in encryption products: Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Detecting Random – Finding...
Most normal user traffic communicates via a hostname and not an IP address. Solooking at traffic communicating directly by IP with no associated DNS request is a good thing do to. Some attackers use...
View ArticleLWN.net: The Critical Infrastructure Initiative census project
The Criticial Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation effort to direct resources to critical projects in need of help) has announced a census project to identify the development projects most in...
View ArticleLWN.net: The Core Infrastructure Initiative census project
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation effort to direct resources to critical projects in need of help) has announced a census project to identify the development projects most in need...
View ArticleLWN.net: A new OpenSSL vulnerability
The OpenSSL project has disclosed a new certificate validation vulnerability. "During certificate verification, OpenSSL (starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b) will attempt to find an alternative...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Cisco PSIRT reporting Customers...
Patch your firewalls! 2015-July-08 UPDATE:">Cisco PSIRT is aware of disruption to some Cisco customers with Cisco ASA devices affected by CVE-2014-3383, the Cisco ASA VPN Denial of Service...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: OPENSSL update fixes Certificate...
OpenSSL1.0.2.d and 1.0.1p were release fixing an issue with the Certification verification process. The security advisory for the issue can be found here:"> OpenSSL Security Advisory [9 Jul...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Thursday
Debian has updated python-django (two vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated bind (denial of service), cups-filters (two code execution vulnerabilities), flash-player-plugin (many vulnerabilities),...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: “U.S. Copyright Group” Shuts Down Portugal’s Largest Pirate Site
Last week the operator's of Portugal's largest pirate site announced they were throwing in the towel after their site became too big to manage. Just days later there's a slightly different narrative...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Credit Card Breach at a Zoo Near You
Service Systems Associates, a company that serves gift shops at zoos and cultural centers across the United States, has acknowledged a breach of its credit and debit card processing systems.
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: What You Would Do With a...
A few weeks ago, we held a contest offering a free Storage Pod chassis as a prize to people who came up with creative ways to use/reuse a Backblaze Storage Pod chassis. The response was outstanding! We...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPAA Wants to Kill Domain Name Privacy, For Some
The MPAA has submitted its comments in response to a new ICANN proposal that may expose website owners who registered their domains through WHOIS privacy protection services. According to the Hollywood...
View Articlexkcd.com: XKCD Phone 3
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday, July...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: VMware Security Bullitens, (Fri,...
VMware has issued a security bulletin regarding a privilege escalation attack affecting VMware 10 and 11, Player 6,7 and VMware Horizon Client for Windows prior to version 5.4.2...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: freq.py super powers?, (Fri, Jul...
Look, up in the URL. Its a BASE64, its a URI. This looks like a job for freq.py This diary is a follow up to yesterdays post on using freq.py to find DGA (Domain Generation Algorithm) host names in...
View Articleyovko in a nutshell: e-Resident
Estonian Police and Border Guard Board has granted e-Residency to YOVKO LAMBREV. You will be notified upon the document’s arrival to the place of issue marked on the application form. Sincerely, Police...
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