Schneier on Security: Duqu 2.0
Kaspersky Labs has discovered and publicized details of a new nation-state surveillance malware system, called Duqu 2.0. It's being attributed to Israel. There's a lot of details, and I recommend...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Google Fails to Overturn Worldwide Site-Blocking Order
Google has failed in its efforts to overturn a worldwide site-blocking order handed down by a Canadian court in 2014. The British Columbia Court of Appeal found that despite not being a party to the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated openssl (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated imagemagick (multiple vulnerabilities) and strongswan (information disclosure). Fedora has updated qemu (F22: denial...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The History of Internet Insecurity
The Washington Post has a good two part story on the history of insecurity of the Internet.
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Just Say “NON!”– France Demands Right of Global...
I've been waiting for this, much the way one waits for a violent case of food poisoning. France is now officially demanding that Google expand the hideous EU "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) to...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Locker: Cryptolocker...
At midnight on May 25th a dormant strain of ransomware awoke and began to wreak havoc on the systems and networks it had infected. The ransomware, known as Locker, was continuing in the footsteps of...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Uh Oh — Robots Are Getting Good with Samurai Swords
It's Iaido, not sword fighting, but still. Of course, the two didn't battle each other, but competed in Iaido tests like cutting mats and flowers in various cross-sectional directions. A highlight was...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: ICANN Refuses to Play Piracy Police
In recent months copyright lobby groups have pressured the domain name system oversight body ICANN to take action against pirate sites. The organization is not happy with these calls and wants them to...
View ArticleLWN.net: MATE 1.10 released
Version 1.10 of the MATE Desktop has been released. Perhaps the most notable new feature is that all MATE components can now be built with GTK+2 or GTK+3, although GTK+3 support is still labeled...
View ArticleLWN.net: TeX Live 2015 is available
The 2015 edition of the TeX Live software distribution, the "easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system," has been released. DVDs are in production for members of the TeX...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Dancing Zombie Squid
How dead squid is made to dance when soy sauce is poured on it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Discount Chain Fred’s Inc. Probes Card Breach
Fred's Inc., a discount general merchandise and pharmacy chain that operates 650 stores in more than a dozen states, disclosed today that it is investigating a potential credit card breach.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: TV Giant CANAL+ Hacked, Hits Github With DMCA Complaint
Viacom-owned TV giant CANAL+ has been hacked, TorrentFreak can reveal. In a now deleted DMCA notice sent to the Github code repository, a legal manager at CANAL+ reveals that a Github user hacked one...
View ArticleThe Hacker Factor Blog: Late Night Programming
I've been spending my evenings working on various tweaks and possible enhancements to the FotoForensics site. Some of these experiments have worked out really well, some have a few problems, and some...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest: I want a movie-plot threat that shows the evils of encryption. (For those who don't know, a movie-plot threat is a scary-threat story that...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Kim Dotcom’s ‘Mega Domains’ Are Now For Sale
After the seized Megaupload and Megavideo domains ran malicious ads last month, there is more Mega domain strangeness to report. Various domain names which previously belonged to Kim Dotcom and his...
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Darknet - The Darkside: Just-Metadata – Gathers & Analyse IP Address Metadata
Just-Metadata is a tool that can be used to gather IP address metadata passively about a large number of IP addresses, and attempt to extrapolate relationships that might not otherwise be seen....
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Дневникът на Георги: Събота, 13 Юни 2015
Когато от мързел вместо да си добавиш нова аларма си промениш тази, която ползваш за събуждане за работа, не е учудващо, че в събота сутринта - аларма нямаше. За голям късмет се събудих в 5:30 набързо...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 2015-06-14 жив съм
Качих един progress report за ISP курса, в който вероятно съм пропуснал някакви неща, но участниците ще си кажат и ще се допълва. Тия дни около курса се чудех с какви IPv6 адреси да го правя, и накрая...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Nintendo Seizes “Pirated” Cookies to Protect Fans
Nintendo has seized a large quantity of copyright infringing cookies featuring popular game characters, fearing that these could cause health issues for gaming fans. The cookies were produced in China...
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