Errata Security: AshMad is prostitution not adultery
The Ashley-Madison website advertises adultery, but that's a lie. I've talked to a lot of users of the site, and none of them used it to cheat on their spouse. Instead, they used it as just a "dating"...
View ArticleErrata Security: A lesson in BitTorrent
Hackers have now posted a second dump of Ashley-Madison, this time 20-gigabytes worth of data. Many, mostly journalists, are eagerly downloading this next dump. However, at the time of this writing,...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Glibc wrappers for (nearly all) Linux system calls
The GNU C Library (glibc) is a famously conservative project. In the past, that conservatism created a situation where there is no way to directly call a number of Linux system calls from a...
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View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: EU Demands Google Forget “The Right To Be Forgotten”
Brussels, Belgium (ZAP) - The European Union today issued a preliminary order requiring that Google and all other Search Engines and similar services remove all search results related to the EU "Right...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Street Gangs, Tax Fraud and ‘Drop Hoes’
Authorities across the United States this week arrested dozens of gang members who stand accused of making millions of dollars stealing consumer identities in order to file fraudulent tax refund...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday, August...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: A recent decline in traffic...
Introduction According to a 2014 report by ESET, Windigo is the code name for an ongoing operation that started as early as 2011 [1]. As noted in the report, legitimate traffic to servers compromised...
View ArticleКлошкодил: OpenFest 2015 – зов за лектори
И дойде време да се обяви зовът за лектори, лекции и всякакви забавни неща за OpenFest 2015. Мястото за подаване на заявки е cfp.openfest.org, имаме същите потоци като миналата година и както...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Court Orders 20 Big Piracy Sites Blocked in Denmark
Following a complaint filed by anti-piracy group Rights Alliance, 20 leading 'pirate' sites will soon be blocked in Denmark. The blocking order, handed down yesterday by a district court, will be...
View ArticleЧорба от греховете на dzver: Търсим лектори за Уърдкамп София 2015
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View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Skycademy Update
The last month here at Pi Towers has been a busy one, as we’ve been preparing for our first ever Skycademy event. Since announcing it a couple of months ago we’ve had a great response from educators...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: SS7 Phone-Switch Flaw Enabled Surveillance
Interesting: Remember that vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that lets hackers and spies track your cellphone virtually anywhere in the world? It's worse than you might have thought....
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Live Booting Linux
“I’d like to give Linux a try, but I’m not sure how.” I’ve heard that statement so many times over the years. During that period, my pat response has changed from something akin to “It’s worth the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: UK Piracy Police Asked Domain Registrars to Shut Down 317 Sites
Since its launch two years ago, the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has requested domain name registrars to suspend 317 pirate sites. A lot of requests were denied, but...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Friday
Fedora has updated pure-ftpd (F21: denial of service). Red Hat has updated openshift (RHOSE3: privilege escalation). SUSE has updated xen (SLE11SP1: two vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated subversion...
View ArticleLWN.net: The bcachefs filesystem
Kent Overstreet, author of the bcache block caching layer, has announced that bcache has metamorphosed into a fully featured copy-on-write filesystem. "Well, years ago (going back to when I was still...
View ArticleLWN.net: Mozilla: The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
Mozilla has announced a significant set of changes for authors of Firefox add-ons. These include a new API (and the deprecation of XUL and XPCOM), a process-based sandboxing mechanism, mandatory...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World
Quantum computing is a novel way to build computers -- one that takes advantage of the quantum properties of particles to perform operations on data in a very different way than traditional computers....
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