TorrentFreak: Torrent Site Uploaders Agree to Snitch on Colleagues
As part of a settlement with anti-piracy group BREIN, three leaders of a piracy release group have agreed to cease and desist their online activities. In addition to paying a cash amount the trio have...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Are you a "Hunter"?, (Sun, Aug 16th)
It sound like an interesting question, isnt it? But what Im referring to is us analyst that searches for unusual activity or you just wait for a trigger from an IDS/IPS or that a rule will trigger...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Monday, August...
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View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc7
Linus has released the 4.2-rc7 prepatch, but he's still not sure about whether it will be the last for this development cycle. "So this may be the last RC, and it might not be. It will depend on...
View ArticleSource Code in TV and Films: From the Blackhat movie. Looks like Python.
From the Blackhat movie. Looks like Python.
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Stress-Testing the Booter Services, Financially
The past few years have witnessed a rapid proliferation of cheap, Web-based services that troublemakers can hire to knock virtually any person or site offline for hours on end. Such services succeed...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/17/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Aloha.' 'Terminator Genisys' completes the top three.Source: TorrentFreak, for...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Fox Targets Free Fitness Workout For Using the Word ‘Avatar’
Twentieth Century Fox has a track record of fiercely protesting its intellectual property. So when a website offering free fitness programs started using names of popular film and TV-series, the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Australia & Singapore Pioneering Education Tour
As an education pioneer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I’m on a mission to ensure that all children everywhere have some exposure to computing, whether this comes in the form of digital making, the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Oracle CSO Rant Against Security Experts
Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson wrote a blog post ranting against security experts finding vulnerabilities in her company's products. The blog post has been taken down by the company, but was saved for...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Desperate Rightscorp Burns Through More Piracy Millions
Piracy monetization company Rightscorp has published its results for Q2 2015 and it's yet another three months of misery for the company. At the same time as paying out just $117K to its copyright...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Monday
Arch Linux has updated glibc (denial of service from 2014). Debian-LTS has updated libidn (information disclosure) and subversion (information disclosure). Fedora has updated bzr (F22; F21: denial of...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: A New DDoS Reflection Attack: Portmapper; An Early Warning...
The faster those of us in the security and network operator space can detect a new attack vector, the faster we can come up with ways to slow or stall the growth of that method. To accomplish this,...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Tool Tip: Kansa Stafford...
In his most recent post, Guy asked Are You a Hunter?. Heres one way to become one. Dave Hull has just published the Stafford release of his exemplary PowerShell DFIR tool, Kansa. For the uninitiated,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Data and Goliath Confiscated from Chelsea Manning
One of the books confiscated from Chelsea Manning was a copy of Data and Goliath.
View ArticleKrebs on Security: IRS: 330K Taxpayers Hit by ‘Get Transcript’ Scam
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclosed today that identity thieves abused a feature on the agency's Web site to pull sensitive data on more than 330,000 potential victims as part of a scheme to...
View ArticleLWN.net: Stable kernels 4.1.6, 3.14.51, and 3.10.87
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 4.1.6, 3.14.51, and 3.10.87. As usual, there are important fixes throughout the tree and users of those kernel series should upgrade.
View ArticleLWN.net: The Open Mainframe Project
The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Open Mainframe Project. "In just the last few years, demand for mainframe capabilities have drastically increased due to Big Data, mobile...
View ArticleLWN.net: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice...
Christian Schaller has posted an open letter to the Apache Software Foundation with a non-trivial request: "So dear Apache developers, for the sake of open source and free software, please recommend...
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