Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Sadly, How Windows 10 Reveals Microsoft’s Ethics...
Over the last few days, I've been discussing various problematic issues involving Microsoft's new Windows 10 operating system, most recently in: Windows 10's New Feature Steals Your Internet Bandwidth:...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Your Security Policy Is So Lame,...
Every person should avoid lame security policies because of the lack of clarity they leave behind. Often times we find ourselves forced into creating security policies due to compliance requirements....
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Anti-Web Blocking Site More Popular in the UK than Spotify & Skype
A service that helps users circumvent web-blocking injunctions handed down by the UK High Court has grown to become one of the country's most popular websites. Unblocked.pw provides instant access to...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Google Asked to Remove 18 ‘Pirate Links’ Every Second
Copyright holders continue to increase the number of copyright takedown requests they send to Google. As a result the company is currently asked to remove a record breaking 18 links to "pirate" pages...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Copying And Sharing Was Always A Natural Right; Restricting...
In the still-ongoing debate over sharing it's paramount to realize that sharing and copying was always the natural state, and that restricting of copying is an arbitrary restriction of property...
View Articlexkcd.com: Driving
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Monday, August...
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View ArticleKrebs on Security: ‘Like Cutting Off a Limb to Save the Body’
This author has spent many years chronicling the exploits of black hat spammers who use hacked computers to relay junk email. But I've dedicated comparatively little time delving into ways of email...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/03/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Hot Pursuit' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Furious 7.' 'Insurgent' completes the top three.Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Will Be Blocked in Austria
Following a European trend, an Austrian Court has ordered a local ISP to block access to The Pirate Bay. The legal action, brought by copyright holders, resulted in an injunction which orders the ISPs...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Pimoroni is 3
For Pimoroni’s second birthday, we finally outgrew the old spring-storage workshop in Neepsend. After hunting for a while, we found a new home near the train station in Sheffield. The new Pirate Ship...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: John Mueller on the Overblown ISIS Threat
John Mueller has a good essay on how the ISIS threat is overblown.
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Help with Mailing List Hosting
I could use some help with finding a host for my monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram. My old setup just wasn't reliable enough. I had a move planned, but that fell through when the new host's bounce...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc5
The 4.2-rc5 prepatch is out, and Linus is wishing things were going a bit more smoothly. "We're getting up there to the later rc's, but it's looking like 4.2 might be one of the releases needing more...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Your SSH Server On Port 8080 Is...
I am seeing some scanning for SSH servers on port 8080 in web server logs for web servers that listen on this port. So far, I dont see any scans like this for web servers listening on port 80. In web...
View Articleyovko.net: International e-Residency hackathon, Estonia, Vormsi, 11-13 September
We have already introduced you e-Estonia: a country where you can establish a business in less than an hour, where tax declaration takes just a few minutes and contracts are signed digitally. With...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: India’s Porn Block Targets Torrent Sites, CollegeHumor and 9Gag
The Indian Government has ordered local ISPs to block access to a list of 857 websites that supposedly link to adult material. The broad blocking order goes further than targeting dedicated porn sites...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 2015-08-03 Две събития
На 15.08 ще се случи четвъртия VarnaConf. Този път сме upgrade-нати и ще имаме два потока, като във втория сме наслагали малко по-админски теми. Очаква се да е весело (както обикновено)… (запазване на...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Monday
Debian has updated apache2 (multiple vulnerabilities), ghostscript (code execution), icedove (multiple vulnerabilities), icu (multiple vulnerabilities), and ruby-rack (denial of service). Fedora has...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Vulnerabilities in Brink’s Smart Safe
Brink's sells an Internet-enabled smart safe called the CompuSafe Galileo. Despite being sold as a more secure safe, it's wildly insecure: Vulnerabilities found in CompuSafe Galileo safes, smart safes...
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