Schneier on Security: Organizational Doxing
Recently, WikiLeaks began publishing over half a million previously secret cables and other documents from the Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia. It's a huge trove, and already reporters are writing...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Bitcoin Bounties Aim to Turn Pirates Into Snitches
Due to its decentralized nature, Bitcoin has often been mentioned in the same breath as BitTorrent in recent years. Now, a solution being touted by a technology company sees the virtual currency being...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Where’s Wally? Find him faster with Wolfram Language
If you ever want to get back at your sibling for some minor wrongdoing, there is no better way than to borrow all of their “Where’s Wally”** books and use a big red marker pen to give him speech...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case
Four key Pirate Bay figures have a little something to celebrate this morning. After standing accused of committing criminal copyright infringement and abusing electronic communications, yesterday a...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated openssl (certificate verification botch). CentOS has updated php (C6: many vulnerabilities, some from 2014). Debian has updated pdns (full fix for denial of service) and...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Cybercrime Kingpin Pleads Guilty
An Estonian man who ran an organized cybercrime ring that infected more than 4 million PCs in over 100 countries with moneymaking malware has pleaded guilty in New York to wire fraud and computer...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: High-tech Cheating on Exams
India is cracking down on people who use technology to cheat on exams: Candidates have been told to wear light clothes with half-sleeves, and shirts that do not have big buttons. They cannot wear...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: Passgen – Random Character Generator For WPA/WPA2 Key...
Passgen is an simple Python alternative for the random character generator Crunch which attempts to solve cracking WPA/WPA2 keys by randomizing the output as opposed to generating a list like so...
View ArticleLWN.net: A new crop of stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 4.1.2, 4.0.8, 3.14.48, and 3.10.84 stable kernels. All contain important fixes and users should upgrade. In addition, this is the second to last...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Chrome Blocks Major Torrent Sites Over “Harmful Programs”
Starting today Google Chrome is blocking direct access to several large torrent sites including KickassTorrents, Torrentz, ExtraTorent and RARBG. According to Google the sites contain "harmful...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: My Little Cephalopod
A cute series of knitted plushies. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
View ArticleLWN.net: Microservices 101: The good, the bad and the ugly (ZDNet)
ZDNet has an interview about "microservices" with Red Hat VP engineering for middleware, Dr. Mark Little. Microservices are a relatively recent software architecture that relies on small, easily...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Adobe To Fix Another Hacking Team Zero-Day
For the second time in a week, Adobe Systems Inc. says it plans fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that came to light after hackers broke into and posted online hundreds of...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: “Petty Hollywood” Stops Pirate Admin From Going Home
A man faced with paying the world's largest movie studios millions of dollars in piracy-related damages says that Hollywood wants to stop him returning to his home country. Following a recent judgment...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : БНТ, БНР, БТК: какво декодираме с декодерите
Назначаването на Пеевски за шеф на ДАНС заличи за много хора границата между вероятното и невероятното. Много хора си казаха “Не, абсурд, изключено” – но съобщението се оказа вярно, дори Валерия Велева...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site
A few weeks ago the RIAA obtained a preliminary injunction requiring Cloudflare to terminate services to all domains that use "Grooveshark" in their name. As a result, the popular CDN service was...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : Съд на ЕС: към дефиницията за аудиовизуална...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: OS X Adobe Flash Player Web...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: PHP 5.x Security Updates, (Sun,...
PHP 5.6.11, 5.5.27 and 5.4.43 were updated fixing numerous bugs in the various components of PHP including CVE-2015-3152. PHP recommend testing and upgrading to the current release. The binaries and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Bogus “Copyright Trademark” Complaint Fails to Censor the BBC
Using copyright to censor online content may have been a successful strategy in years gone by. But these days, thanks to Google's Transparency Report and the Chilling Effects Clearing House, weak...
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