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View ArticleSchneier on Security: Crypto-Gram Is Moving
If you subscribe to my monthly e-mail newsletter, Crypto-Gram, you need to read this. Sometime between now and the August issue, the Crypto-Gram mailing list will be moving to a new host. When the move...
View ArticleLWN.net: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)
LinuxVoice has an interview with Perl creator Larry Wall. "So I was the language designer, but I was almost explicitly told: 'Stay out of the implementation! We saw what you did made out of Perl 5, and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay ‘Hydra’ Loses Another Domain Name
The Pirate Bay has lost another domain name this morning. ThePirateBay.am, which has been one of the default Pirate Bay domains for two months, was put on hold by the Armenian registry. The domain name...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: PatternCraft
Carrie Anne looked over my shoulder when I was researching this post. “I love kids with tools.” These particular kids with tools are using traditional wooden mallets and punches to make a very special...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: ID Theft Service Proprietor Gets 13 Years
A Vietnamese man who ran an online identity theft service that sold access to Social Security numbers and other personal information on more than 200 million Americans has been sentenced to 13 years in...
View ArticleLWN.net: FSF and SFC work with Canonical on an “intellectual property” policy...
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) have both put out statements about a change to the Canonical, Ltd. "intellectual property" policy that was negotiated over the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Wednesday
openSUSE has updated cups-filters (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities) and libunwind (13.2; 13.1: buffer overflow). Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated...
View ArticleErrata Security: More ProxyHam stuff
Somebody asked how my solution in the last post differed from the "ProxyGambit" solution. They missed my point. Just because I change the tires on the car doesn't mean I get credit for inventing or...
View ArticleLWN.net: Bruce Schneier: IT Teams Need Cyberattack Response Planning More...
Linux.com has an interview with Bruce Schneier. "Schneier: The most important takeaway is that we are all vulnerable to this sort of attack. Whether it's nation-state hackers (Sony), hactivists (HB...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Python 3.5 is on its way
It has been nearly a year and a half since the last major Python release, which was 3.4 in March 2014—that means it is about time for Python 3.5. We looked at some of the new features in 3.4 at the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Researcher Receives Copyright Threat After Exposing Security Hole
A researcher who exposed security flaws in tools used to monitor the Internet usage of UK students has been hit with a copyright complaint. 'Slipstream' discovered flaws in Impero Education Pro which...
View Articlelcamtuf's blog: Poland vs the United States: work and entitlements
[ This is the thirteenth and next-to-last entry in a short series of articles about Poland and the US. To start from the beginning, click here. ] In one of my earlier posts, I alluded to the pervasive...
View ArticleMatthew Garrett: Canonical’s Ubuntu IP policy is garbage
(In order to avoid any ambiguity here, this is a personal opinion. The Free Software Foundation's opinion on this matter is here)Canonical have a legal policy surrounding reuse of Intellectual Property...
View ArticleErrata Security: Software and the bogeyman
This post about the July 8 glitches (United, NYSE, WSJ failed) keeps popping up in my Twitter timeline. It's complete nonsense.What's being argued here is that these glitches were due to some sort of...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: Telegram DDoS Attack – Messaging App Suffers 200GBps...
For those not familiar before we get to the Telegram DDoS attack, Telegram is an instant messaging system focusing on privacy and multi-platform availability. It was launched by the founders of VK, the...
View Articlelcamtuf's blog: Poland vs the United States: American exceptionalism
This is the fourteenth article talking about Poland, Europe, and the United States. To explore the entire collection, start here. This is destined to be the final entry in the series that opened with...
View Articlelcamtuf's blog: Poland and the United States: all that begins must end
With my previous entry, I wrapped up an impromptu series of articles that chronicled my childhood experiences in Poland and compared the culture I grew up with to the American society that I'm living...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Always Check Your References...
Most of us have a cheat sheet [CS] here and there. In my jump bag there is a 3 ring binder with cheat sheets in plastic sheet protectors. In this, it got me thinking about cheat sheets again and there...
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