Krebs on Security: Six Nabbed for Using LizardSquad Attack Tool
Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested a half-dozen young males accused of using the Lizard Squad's Lizard Stresser tool, an online service that allowed paying customers to launch attacks...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Tricks For Using Desktop-Integrated Calendars
The Linux desktop is full of interesting features. In fact, users are often surprised at just how many handy tools the various iterations of the open source desktop there are. One such tool is the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: German BfV – NSA Cooperation
The German newspaper Zeit is reporting the BfV, Germany's national intelligence agency, (probably) illegally traded data about Germans to the NSA in exchange for access to XKeyscore. From Ars Technica:...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: First Netflix 4K Content Leaks to Torrent Sites
Pirates have found a way to circumvent the 4K copy protection on Netflix, resulting in the first ultra high-definition leak. A copy of the first episode of Breaking Bad worth nearly 18 gigabytes is...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated firefox (C5; C6; C7: multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (C5; C6; C7: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Benefits of Endpoint Encryption
An unofficial blog post from FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani on the virtues of strong end-user device controls.
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Mickens on Security
James Mickens, for your amusement. A somewhat random sample: My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The "threat model" section of a security paper resembles the script...
View ArticleLWN.net: Starting in September, Chrome will stop auto-playing Flash ads
Google has announced that, beginning September 1, Chrome will no longer auto-play Flash-based ads in the company's popular AdWords program. The post frames this as a move to improve browsing...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Anatomy Class
Beautiful diorama. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
View ArticleErrata Security: On science literacy…
.In this WIRED article, a scientifically illiterate writer explains "science literacy". It's as horrid as you'd expect. He preaches the Aristotelian version of science that Galileo proved wrong...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Automating Metrics using RTIR...
Metrics are an important part of incident response. You should know your average time to detect compromised systems and how successful phishing campaigns are against your users. ">">RTIR(2) is an...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Popcorn Time Blames Hollywood For Its Popularity
Popcorn Time and its users continue to face pressure from copyright holders but the application's developers don't plan to cave in anytime soon. Instead, they're turning the tables, blaming Hollywood's...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Universal: Smart Pirate Site Owners Get Round Restrictions
The managing director of Universal Music in Sweden has hinted at the futility of trying to block and shut down pirate sites. Per Sundin, a key figure in the prosecution of The Pirate Bay, says that...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Is Down…
The Pirate Bay is down at the moment, causing a mild panic among many BitTorrent users. While some fear the worst, the site probably won't be offline for very long. Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest...
View ArticleErrata Security: No, this isn’t good code
I saw this tweet go by. No, I don't think it's good code:And now, your moment of Zen. pic.twitter.com/hh3eEY5Vdc— Chris Palmer (@fugueish) August 29, 2015What this code is trying to solve is the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Offcloud Downloads Torrents to Google Drive and Dropbox
For people who are constantly on the go, it can be quite convenient to download torrents remotely. With Offcloud this is an option. The service enables users to download torrents directly to their...
View ArticleLWN.net: GDB 7.10 released
Version 7.10 of the GDB debugger is out. Improvements this time around include better support for access to shared libraries on remote targets, reverse debugging on ARM64 systems, support for DTrace...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPAA Demands Extraordinary Measures to Prevent Piracy
Companies wishing to process, handle or distribute video content for the MPAA have to go to extraordinary lengths to become accredited by the Hollywood group. From background checks on all personnel...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: When You’re Calling Culture Content, You’re Reinforcing The...
The metaphors we use determine how we see the world. When we're calling all stories, songs, news, gossip, and bedtime stories the bland "content", we reinforce that they're contained by...
View ArticleLWN.net: The 4.2 kernel has been released
Linus has announced the final release of the 4.2 kernel. "So judging by how little happened this week, it wouldn't have been a mistake to release 4.2 last week after all, but hey, there's certainly a...
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