LWN.net: The Free Software Foundation: 30 years in (Opensource.com)
Jono Bacon interviews John Sullivan, executive director of the FSF, at Opensource.com. "What we have been focusing on now are the challenges I highlighted in the first question. We are in desperate...
View Articlexkcd.com: Footprints
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: The Faceplate for the...
We have over 1,000 Backblaze Storage Pods storing over 150 Petabytes of data. Who cares what they look like as long as they work – right? Turns out lots of people care – they care a lot. And it’s not...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday,...
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
View ArticleErrata Security: Help a refugees would enrich ourselves
This website is for those who want to share their apartment with a refuge. You don't even have to pay -- refugee organizations will pay their share of the rent. This is frankly awesome.I grew up around...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Warner Bros. ‘Scare Tactics’ Shut Down Original Popcorn Time
The original driving force behind Popcorn Time has broken cover. Previously known under the pseudonym Sebastian, Argentinian designer Federico Abad now reveals his motivations for putting together the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi Guy interviews Eben
A few weeks ago Matt Timmons-Brown, The Raspberry Pi Guy, visited Pi Towers to interview Raspberry Pi Trading CEO Eben Upton. Over the course of an hour and a half, Matt drew Eben’s detailed answers on...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Security Risks of Third-party Data
Most of us get to be thoroughly relieved that our emails weren't in the Ashley Madison database. But don't get too comfortable. Whatever secrets you have, even the ones you don't think of as secret,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Security Risks of Third-Party Data
Most of us get to be thoroughly relieved that our e-mails weren't in the Ashley Madison database. But don't get too comfortable. Whatever secrets you have, even the ones you don't think of as secret,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Samba 4.3.0 released
Samba 4.3.0 is out. This release has a lot of new features, including a reworked logging system, a new FileChangeNotify subsystem, better trusted domains support, SMB 3.1.1 support, and more.
View ArticleLWN.net: Wednesday’s security advisories
CentOS has updated haproxy (C7; C6: information leak) and subversion (C7: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated spice (code execution). Mageia has updated chromium-browser (MG4,5: multiple...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Showtime Sues to Block Pirated Mayweather-Berto Streams
Showtime and Mayweather Productions have sued a website which plans to offer access to the upcoming Mayweather vs. Berto fight. The companies are asking the court for a temporary restraining order to...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Adobe Updates Shockwave Player,...
This one fell between the cracks yesterday. Adobe released one bulletin yesterday for patch Tuesday [1]. The update fixes twovulnerabilitiesin Adobes Shockwave player. All versions of Shockwave Player...
View ArticleErrata Security: Some notes on satellite C&C
Wired and Ars Technica have some articles on malware using satellites for command-and-control. The malware doesn't hook directly to the satellites, of course. Instead, it sends packets to an IP address...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Animals vs. Drones
It's not just humans who dislike the small flying objects. YouTube has videos of drones being stared at quizzically by a moose, harassed by a raven, attacked by a hawk, butted by a ram, knocked out of...
View ArticleLWN.net: A closer look at the world’s first open digital cinema camera...
Opensource.com takes a look at the AXIOM Beta camera, a new professional digital image capturing platform. "The goal of the AXIOM camera, and the global-community-driven apertus° project, is to create...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Backblaze Release 4.0.4
We’ve updated our Backblaze client to version 4.0.4. This is a fairly minor release, there are a few key changes. Windows: Designed with latest Visual Studio 14 Updated to latest OpenSSL, resulting in...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: A look through the spam filters –...
Introduction Any email filtering worth its cost should block numerous messages every day. however, Im always interested to see what exactly is being blocked. Perhaps the most common type of malicious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Errata Security: What’s that drama?
The infosec community is known for its drama on places like Twitter. People missing the pieces can't figure out what happened. So I thought I'd write up the latest drama.It starts with "Wesley McGrew"...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Thursday,...
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
View Article