Krebs on Security: Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist
Networking firm Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed this week that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly common scam in which crooks spoof communications from executives at the...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: World-traveler Kendall...
The summer is coming to a close but we decided to add another intern in to the mix. Kendall is joining us for a few weeks to work on a few “special ops” projects before heading back the U.K. to finish...
View ArticleLWN.net: Firefox 39.0.3 is out
Firefox 39.0.3 has been released. According to the release notes there are various security fixes. This does include a fix for the recently report active exploit.
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Divers Find Squid Eggs
Divers discover a large mass of Ommastrephes bartramii eggs: Earlier this month, a team of divers swimming off the coast of Turkey discovered something unexpected: a 4-meter wide gelatinous mass of...
View ArticleLWN.net: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released
The third update to the 14.04 Long Term Support release is available for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavors of Ubuntu with long-term support. "We have expanded our...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators For Using the Word ‘Pixels’
An anti-piracy firm working for Columbia Pictures has hit Vimeo with a wave of bogus copyright takedowns just because people used the word 'Pixels' in their video titles. Several indie productions are...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Comcast Sends Spongebob ‘Pirate’ 44 Letters For One Download
A Comcast subscriber was bombarded with 44 copyright infringement notices after his brother downloaded a Spongebob torrent. The notices, which were mailed to the subscriber's house in individual...
View ArticleMatthew Garrett: Difficult social problems are still difficult problems
After less than a week of complaints, the TODO group have decided to pause development of their code of conduct. This seems to have been triggered by the public response to the changes I talked about...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: Оплакванияотслужителив Google
Нямам представа дали изобщо са истина. Нямам представа дали, ако са истина, не са просто проява на чувство за хумор от служителите. (Най-вероятно са.) Но във всички случаи си струва човек да ги прочете...
View Articleyovko in a nutshell: За една бристълска лира
Бристъл е град в югозападна Великобритания с около 430 хиляди жители. Иначе казано, малко по-голям от Пловдив. Бристълчани се самоописват като специални хора – креативни и широкоскроени. А Бристъл...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPAA Recruits Software Programmer to Combat Piracy
In its ongoing war against online piracy, the MPAA is currently hoping to recruit a software developer. The Hollywood group is looking for savvy candidates who can help develop data gathering tools for...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pornhub Uploaders Targeted By Copyright Troll
Several users of popular porn streaming site Pornhub have received settlement demands for thousands of dollars after uploading videos to the site without obtaining permission. How the users are being...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc6
The 4.2-rc6 kernel prepatch is out. Linus says: "So last week I wasn't very happy about the state of the release candidates, but things are looking up. Not only is rc6 finally shrinking noticeably,...
View Articlexkcd.com: I in Team
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View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: It’s Time to Go Nuclear Against DMCA Abuse
OK boys and girls. That's the last straw. The straw that broke the camel's back. The jumping of the shark. It's the end of the line for playing nice regarding entertainment company abuse of the Digital...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Monday, August...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/10/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Terminator Genisys' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Pitch Perfect 2.' 'Hot Pursuit' completes the top three.Source: TorrentFreak,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Minority Report, Lucifer and Blindspot Pilots Leak Online
Pilot episodes of several upcoming TV shows have leaked online way ahead of their intended premieres. Fox's DC Comics-based crime-horror Lucifer leaks months ahead of a planned 2016 debut while sci-fi...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Bat Pi
Do you live in an area with bats? We do, but they’re so fast that they’re very hard to spot when they’re scudding about after insects at dusk; and, of course, human ears are not equipped to hear the...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: What Was Old is New Again:...
Here at the ISC, we operate a number of honeypots. So it is nice to see how honeypots in different shapes are starting to become popular again, with even a couple of startups specializing in honeypot...
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