LWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2015 is available.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Thursday,...
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View ArticleLWN.net: Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors
The developers of the Grsecurity kernel-hardening patch set have announced that, due to ongoing GPL and trademark violations, the public distribution of the "stable" series of patches will stop. "We...
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SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: PDF + maldoc1 = maldoc2, (Wed,...
I received another example of a PDF file that contains a malicious MS Office document. Sample (MD5 0c044fd59cc6ccc28a48937bc69cc0c4). This time I want to focus on the analysis of such a sample. First...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Piracy: Hollywood’s Losing a Few Pounds, Who Cares?
Following news this week that a man is facing a custodial sentence after potentially defrauding the movie industry out of £120m, FACT Director General Kieron Sharp has been confronted with an...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Issue #37 of The MagPi, the official Rapsberry Pi magazine, is...
The second print edition of The MagPi is here and this month our cover feature is all about digital home automation! UK readers can buy it today in newsagents & WHSmiths and US readers can buy the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Defending All the Targets Is Impossible
In the wake of the recent averted mass shooting on the French railroads, officials are realizing that there are just too many potential targets to defend. The sheer number of militant suspects combined...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Thursday
Debian has updated php5 (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated pykerberos (authentication botch) and python-django (two vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated mariadb (F21: unspecified)....
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: TurboTax Ends Backup to...
In early 2015 a limited number of customers who used the TurboTax® desktop software were offered the opportunity to save their 2014 tax returns in the Turbo Tax cloud – for free. In early July,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Iranian Phishing
CitizenLab is reporting on Iranian hacking attempts against activists, which include a real-time man-in-the-middle attack against Google's two-factor authentication. This report describes an elaborate...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Tech Giants Want to Punish DMCA Takedown Abusers
The CCIA, which represents global tech firms including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, has published an extensive research paper on the future of copyright in the digital landscape. One of the main...
View ArticleLWN.net: KDE Sprints – who wins? (KDE.News)
KDE.News looks at KDE sprints and their benefits. The organization is doing some fundraising to help support its sprints, so it is trying get the word out about these code-focused events: "To start...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: FBI: $1.2B Lost to Business Email Scams
The FBI today warned about a significant spike in victims and dollar losses stemming from an increasingly common scam in which crooks spoof communications from executives at the victim firm in a bid to...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday, August...
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View ArticleLWN.net: The 2015 EFF Pioneer Awards
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the recipients of its Pioneer Awards for 2015: Caspar Bowden, The Citizen Lab, Annriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive...
View ArticlePid Eins: systemd.conf 2015 CfP REMINDER
LAST REMINDER! systemd.conf 2015 Call for Presentations ends August 31st! Here's the last reminder that the systemd.conf 2015 CfP ends on August 31st 11:59:59pm Central European Time (that's monday...
View Articlexkcd.com: Engineer Syllogism
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Founder Released From Jail But Immediately Re-Arrested
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was released from a Danish prison yesterday, only to be immediately re-arrested by police. The Swede is now expected to be extradited back to his home country...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Test File: PDF With Embedded DOC...
My diary entry yesterday inspired me to create another test file base on the EICAR test file. I created a PDF file (MD5 A1DDC9EBE19A3D43EC25889085AD3ED8) that contains a DOC file that drops the EICAR...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Capacitive touch HAT from Adafruit
While we’re on the subject of HATs, here’s one of my favourites, from our friends at Adafruit. We had email a couple of weeks ago from José Federico Ramos Ortega, who has prepared a video and tutorial...
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