LWN.net: Security advisories for Monday
CentOS has updated firefox (C7; C6; C5: information leak). Debian has updated activemq (denial of service) and opensaml2 (problem with previous update). Debian-LTS has updated xmltooling (denial of...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Why, When, and How To Use a Virtual Machine
I must admit I haven't been a huge fan of virtual machines for personal use until recently. As a Linux advocate who would take pains to convert users to Linux, virtual machines served no purpose for...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Tolkien Lawyers Target “Hobbit House” With Copyright Threats
Hollywood studio Warner Bros. and the Tolkien Estate are cracking down on a British couple building a "Hobbit house" campsite. The pair are being forced to change the project's name and remove all...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: .COM.COM Used For Malicious Typo...
Today, our reader Jeff noted how domains ending in .com.com are being redirected to what looks like malicious content.Back in 2013, A blog by Whitehat Security pointed out that the famous com.com...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Detecting Betrayal in Diplomacy Games
Interesting research detecting betrayal in the game of Diplomacy by analyzing interplayer messages. One harbinger was a shift in politeness. Players who were excessively polite in general were more...
View ArticleLWN.net: Stable kernel updates
Stable kernels 4.1.5, 3.14.50, and 3.10.86 have been released. All of them contain important fixes throughout the tree.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Google, Facebook and Twitter Protest Hollywood’s ‘SOPA...
A broad coalition of global tech firms including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Yahoo are protesting a broad injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: After Dark
Galleries are forbidden places once the lights are turned out at night. After Dark was a prize-winning installation from The Workers, a studio in East London, which wandered the empty Tate Modern and...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Incenting Drug Dealers to Snitch on Each Other
Local police are trying to convince drug dealers to turn each other in by pointing out that it reduces competition. It's a comical tactic with serious results: "We offer a free service to help you...
View ArticleLWN.net: Ubuntu One file-syncronization code released
Ubuntu has announced the release of the file-synchronization code behind its "Ubuntu One" service. The release is about as "over-the-wall" as it gets, though: "Will you take patches? In general, no. We...
View ArticleLWN.net: OpenSSH 7.0
The OpenSSH 7.0 release is out. It fixes a number of problems and adds a few new configuration features, but the main focus of 7.0 is taking things out: "This focus of this release is primarily to...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Chip Card ATM ‘Shimmer’ Found in Mexico
Fraud experts in Mexico have discovered an unusual ATM skimming device that can be inserted into the mouth of the cash machine's card acceptance slot and used to read data directly off of chip-enabled...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Vimeo Intervenes to Fix ‘Pixels’ DMCA Disaster
Last week an anti-piracy company aiming to protect the movie 'Pixels' wrongfully took down several unrelated videos from Vimeo, including one that actually inspired the Columbia movie. Vimeo now...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Tuesday
Arch Linux has updated ppp (denial of service). Debian has updated subversion (two vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated opensaml2 (denial of service). Fedora has updated elasticsearch (F22:...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kali Linux 2.0 released
Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution oriented toward penetration testing and related tasks; the 2.0 release is now available. "There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie, improved...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Backblaze Labs: Center...
In September 2009 Backblaze introduced and open sourced our Storage Pod 1.0 design. Storage Pod 1.0 was the result of an iterative yet informal design process where ideas were designed, built, tested,...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: August 2015 Microsoft Patch...
Overview of the August 2015 Microsoft patches and their status. # Affected Contra Indications - KB Known Exploits Microsoft rating(**) ISC rating(*) clients servers MS15-079 Cumulative Security Update...
View ArticleLWN.net: Firefox 40 is available
Mozilla has released Firefox 40. There are several new features listed in the release notes such as; improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing,...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: More patch tuesday: adobe...
Adobe released today bulletin APSB15-19, which address the following vulnerabilities found in Adobe Flash Player: CVE-2015-3107, CVE-2015-5124, CVE-2015-5125, CVE-2015-5127, CVE-2015-5128,...
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