LWN.net: Tuesday’s security updates
CentOS has updated httpd (C6: denial of service) and nss (C5: two vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated httpd (OL7; OL6: denial of service), mariadb (OL7: multiple unspecified vulnerabilities), and nss...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Dropbox Phishing via Compromised...
I got a couple of emails today notifying me of a Compulsory Email Account Update for my Dropbox account. The e-mails do overall mimic the Dropbox look and feel, and use dropbox@smtp.com as a From"...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Movie Plot Threat: Terrorists Attacking US Prisons
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts wins an award for his movie-plot threat: terrorists attacking the maximum-security federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth: In an Aug. 14 letter to Defense Secretary Ashton B....
View ArticleLWN.net: KDE Ships Plasma 5.4.0, Feature Release for August
KDE has released Plasma 5.4 with some new features. "This release of Plasma brings many nice touches for our users such as much improved high DPI support, KRunner auto-completion and many new...
View ArticleLWN.net: Happy 24th birthday, Linux kernel (Opensource.com)
Opensource.com wishes Linux a happy 24th birthday, with a brief timeline of Linux history. "There's some debate in the Linux community as to whether we should be celebrating Linux's birthday today or...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Megaupload Wants U.S. Govt to Buy and Store its Servers
Megaupload's legal team is asking the court to preserve essential evidence hosted on its seized servers. The data is at risk of being destroyed and Kim Dotcom's lawyers argue that the authorities...
View ArticleLWN.net: Go 1.5 released
Version 1.5 of the Go language has been released. "This release includes significant changes to the implementation. The compiler tool chain was translated from C to Go, removing the last vestiges of C...
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LWN.net: [$] Reviving the Hershey fonts
At the 2015 edition of TypeCon in Denver, Adobe's Frank Grießhammer presented his work reviving the famous Hershey fonts from the Mid-Century era of computing. The original fonts were tailor-made for...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday,...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Actor that tried Neutrino exploit...
Introduction Last week, we saw the group behind a significant amount of Angler exploit kit (EK) switch to Neutrino EK [1]. We didnt know if the change was permanent, and I also noted that criminal...
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View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Buy the Sense HAT – as seen in space*!
*Not actually in space yet. Wait till December. Today we have a new product launch: the Sense HAT is now available from the Swag Store, and through our partners RS Components and Premier Farnell/CPC....
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Streaming Site Operator Accused of £120m ‘Piracy Fraud’
A man from Northern Ireland has been accused of being part of an operation which could have defrauded the film industry out of £120m. Paul Mahoney, 30, who has pleaded guilty, allegedly made £300,000...
View Articleyovko in a nutshell: Startup изкушения
През последните две или три години, покрай другите ми занимания, получавах и предложения да участвам, подкрепя или съдействам на няколко бизнес начинания, които сега е адски модерно да се наричат...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Aussie Piracy Notices Delayed But Lawsuits Are Coming
As ISPs and rightsholders continue to fight over who will pay for Australia's "three strikes" anti-piracy regime, there is still no sign of when the program will begin. Nevertheless, Village Roadshow...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Regularities in Android Lock Patterns
Interesting: Marte Løge, a 2015 graduate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, recently collected and analyzed almost 4,000 ALPs as part of her master's thesis. She found that a large...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
AshleyMadison.com, a site that helps married people cheat and whose slogan is "Life is Short, have an Affair," recently put up a half million (Canadian) dollar bounty for information leading to the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated gnutls (denial of service), jasper (denial of service), pcre (code execution), and python-django (denial of service). CentOS has updated httpd (C7: two vulnerabilities) and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: T-Mobile Refuses to Block The Pirate Bay
The Austrian branch of T-Mobile is refusing to block access to The Pirate Bay and several other popular torrent sites. T-Mobile was asked to do so by a local music rights group, who want the ISP to...
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