LWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.2-rc8
In the end, Linus decided to hold off one more week and release 4.2-rc8 instead of the final 4.2 kernel. "It's not like there are any real outstanding issues, and I waffled between just doing the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Music Site Op Pleads Guilty, Faces Five Years in Prison
A man who operated websites offering unauthorized copies of music has pleaded guilty to several copyright infringement offenses. Rocky P. Ouprasith, 23, of Charlotte, N.C., operated the popular sites...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking
Here's an interesting research paper that tries to calculate the differential value of privacy-invasive advertising practices. The researchers used data from a mobile ad network and was able to see how...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Astro Pi: Mission Update 5 – flight safety testing
The road to space is long and winding, but the two Astro Pi flight units are almost there! The next thing for us after this is to hand over the final payload to the European Space Agency so it can be...
View ArticleВелоеволюция: Изследване за превенция на престъпления свързани с велосипедисти
С въпроси към нас в помощ на интересен проект се обърна служител на Националния център за териториално развитие. Анкета към велосипедисти на екип от центъра ще проучи възприятието за престъпления –...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: AshleyMadison: $500K Bounty for Hackers
AshleyMadison.com, an online cheating service whose motto is "Life is Short, Have an Affair," is offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the individual or...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Former Megaupload User Asks Court to Return His Files
Millions of users lost access to their personal files when Megaupload was raided, and after nearly four years their files are still stashed away in a Virginia warehouse. The company that owns the...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Are You Protecting your Backdoor...
Hardly anybody has physical access to critical public facing servers. Usually, they are located in a data center, hours away from the system administrators charged with managing them. Doing a system...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Monday
Debian-LTS has updated extplorer (cross-site scripting), roundup (multiple vulnerabilities), and wesnoth-1.8 (information leak). Mageia has updated libcryptopp (MG4,5: information disclosure),...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors
Hacked online cheating service AshleyMadison.com is portraying itself as a victim of malicious cybercriminals, but leaked emails from the company's CEO suggests that AshleyMadison's top leadership...
View ArticleLWN.net: Ubuntu on the Mainframe: Interview with Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland...
Linux.com has an interview with Dustin Kirkland of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, about Ubuntu on the mainframe and more. "Canonical is doing a lot of different things in the enterprise...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August...
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View Articleyovko in a nutshell: Без общ RSS канал
От началото на 2009 година, освен обичайната ми RSS-емисия от този блог, имах и един обобщен RSS-канал, в който освен публикациите ми тук, се появяваха (макар и рядко) и други неща – например – мои...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: 75,000 Popcorn Time Users in Crosshairs of Anti-Piracy Group
The Norwegian division of Rights Alliance says it has gathered data on tens of thousands of Popcorn Time users and is now considering its next steps. A change in the law allows the Hollywood affiliated...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Are Data Breaches Getting Larger?
This research says that data breaches are not getting larger over time. "Hype and Heavy Tails: A Closer Look at Data Breaches," by Benjamin Edwards, Steven Hofmeyr, and Stephanie Forrest: Abstract:...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: PiDP-8/I – remaking the PDP-8/I
We often see really fantastic looking retro builds that are one-offs; so you can’t replicate them at home without a lot of artistic and mechanical skill. So we were really pleased when Oscar Vermeulen...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: UK Police ‘Hijack’ Ads on 251 Pirate Sites
Data obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveals that City of London Police have targeted the ad revenue of 251 suspected pirate sites, replacing their banners with anti-piracy messaging....
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: Getting Started in Telecom: How our Ops Tech Academy can...
In 2013, Level 3 launched our Operations Technician Academy, known commonly as our Ops Tech Academy, our one-of-a-kind recruitment and professional development program that builds skilled talent to...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: 5 Dorm Life Tips From a...
College student or a parent of one? Here are 5 things you may want to think about before heading out to the dorms. My qualifications? I was a Resident Assistant in college, spending 3 years taking care...
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