TorrentFreak: Movie Studios and Record Labels Target Pirate Bay in New Lawsuit
Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony are among several movie giants taking legal action to have the world's largest pirate sites blocked in Norway. In a lawsuit targeting 11 local ISPs and eight pirate site...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: How to hack, (Tue, Sep 1st)
" /> Agreed, this information is not overly useful. These hacks are basically on the opposite end of the threat scale from the over-hyped Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). Lets call it the Basic...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: What Can you Learn from Metadata?
An Australian reporter for the ABC, Will Ockenden published a bunch of his metadata, and asked people to derive various elements of his life. They did pretty well, even though they were amateurs, which...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Fish tank temperature probe: an ideal beginner’s project
Determined to redress the moggie-doggie bias of the internet Lauren Orsini decided to use a Raspberry Pi and a waterproof temperature sensor to monitor her fish tank. It’s not a recent project but it...
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View ArticleLWN.net: OpenSSL Security: A Year in Review
The OpenSSL project looks at its security record for the last year. "The acceptable timeline for disclosure is a hot topic in the community: we meet CERT’s 45-day disclosure deadline more often than...
View ArticleLWN.net: Tuesday’s security advisories
Fedora has updated qemu (F21: multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated gdk-pixbuf2 (OL7; OL6: code execution), jakarta-taglibs-standard (OL7; OL6: code execution), and nss-softokn (OL7; OL6:...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Like Kaspersky, Russian Antivirus Firm Dr.Web Tested Rivals
A recent Reuters story accusing Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab of faking malware to harm rivals prompted denials from the company's eponymous chief executive -- Eugene Kaspersky -- who called the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, others, aim for royalty-free video codecs...
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, and Amazon have launched a new consortium, the Alliance for Open Media. "The Alliance for Open Media would put an end to...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: US Govt. Denies Responsibility for Megaupload’s Servers
The U.S. Government says it's in no way responsible for the fate of Megaupload's servers, which were raided and seized as part of the criminal proceedings against the file-sharing site. The authorities...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: A Behind-the-Scenes Look...
Tim holds up a drive beam and shows the design to Matt who is attending the meeting courtesy of a telepresence robot. They are discussing the results of a prototype Storage Pod developed using Agile...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: What’s the situation this week...
Introduction Last month in mid-August 2015, an actor using Angler exploit kit (EK) switched to Neutrino EK [1]. A few days later, we found that actor using Angler again [2]. This week, were back to...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday,...
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View ArticleLWN.net: LLVM 3.7 released
Version 3.7 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. "This release contains the work of the LLVM community over the past six months: full OpenMP 3.1 support (behind a flag), the On Request Compilation (ORC)...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: No Dallas Buyers Club Piracy Appeal in Oz, Company Considering...
After a big defeat last month in the Federal Court in Australia, the company behind the movie Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) has decided not to appeal the decision to restrict its pursuit of alleged pirates....
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: MATLAB & Simulink Student Suite – Raspberry Pi Bundle
Today, a look at a speedy way for students to prototype, test, analyse and deploy sophisticated applications on Raspberry Pi, using industry tools: MathWorks’ MATLAB, a high-level programming...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: History of the L0pht
This Washington Post article uses the history of the L0pht to talk about the broader issues of Internet security.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: September 2015 Ouch! Newsletter:...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Sites Must Pay Legal Costs of Own Blockade, Court Rules
Several major pirate sites including The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent must pay legal costs incurred by Hollywood when the studios applied to have the sites blocked in Norway. The decision is part of an...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: OPM (Mis)Spends $133M on Credit Monitoring
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has awarded a $133 million contract to a private firm in an effort to provide credit monitoring services for three years to nearly 22 million people who had...
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