TorrentFreak: Judge Slams Copyright Troll’s “Harassment” Tactics in Piracy Case
Adult movie studio Malibu Media has received a slap on the wrist from New York federal judge Katherine Forrest. The company asked permission to interrogate the neighbors and spouse of an accused...
View ArticleLWN.net: Presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig goes one on one with Ars...
A bit far afield, perhaps, but Lawrence Lessig is the co-founder of Creative Commons and a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright and trademark. Ars Technica talks with Lawrence about his...
View ArticleErrata Security: How to hack my Tesla
This post is just for my own notes. I'm buying a new car (arrives in October) and I need to gather up notes on how to hack it.To start with is the generic car hacking information. One good source I...
View ArticleGrigor Gatchev - A Weblog: Ипакза„Моятабиблиотека“иАсоциация„Българскакнига“
Добре познатият на всички любители на книгата сайт „Моята библиотека“ (www.chitanka.info) отново е спрян благодарение на асоциация „Българска книга“. Очаква се да бъде вдигнат отново до няколко дни....
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Malicious spam with zip...
Introduction On 2015-07-29, the ISC publisheda diary covering malicious spam (malspam) with zip archives of javascript (.js) files [1]. Since then, weve received notifications from others who have...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Docker Trusted Registry – Now in the AWS Marketplace
During my trip to the AWS Loft earlier this month, I spoke to 8 startups for the . Almost all of them told me that they are making use of on AWS, either directly or via . They love the flexibility...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default
There are various types of random number generators (RNGs) that target different use cases, but a programming language can only have one default. For high-security random numbers (e.g. cryptographic...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim...
Professor Lawrence Lessig has provided an expert opinion in support of Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload co-defendants. In submissions filed today in New Zealand, the Creative Commons co-founder and U.S....
View ArticleErrata Security: Maybe with less hate
I wanted to point out President's rather great tweet in response to Ahmed Mohamed's totally-not-a-bomb:Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Anonymous Browsing at the Library
A rural New Hampshire library decided to install Tor on their computers and allow anonymous Internet browsing. The Department of Homeland pressured them to stop: A special agent in a Boston DHS office...
View ArticleAWS Security Blog: re:Invent 2015: All Security and Compliance Track Breakout...
If you will be attending re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas next month, you know that you'll have many opportunities to learn more about AWS security at the conference. The following breakout sessions...
View ArticleLWN.net: Library’s Tor relay now restored (Ars Technica)
Last week we reported that the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire suspended its Tor node deployment due to criticism by the local police department. Ars Technica now reports that the Tor...
View ArticleErrata Security: There are two sides to every story
In today's "clock" controversy, the clock didn't look like these:Instead, this is the picture of the device (from the police department):It's in a "pencil case", not a briefcase. You can compare the...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: Kid Gets Arrested For Building A Clock – World Goes NUTS
So, today we have a tale of the fabled American knee-jerk reaction, this time to a 14 year old Muslim boy who made a cool clock and brought it to school. He got arrested, cuffed and fingerprinted –...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] How Debian managed the systemd transition
Debian's decision to move to systemd as the default init system was a famously contentious (and rather public) debate. Once all the chaos regarding the decision itself had died down, however, it was...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Storage Update – New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option &...
Like all AWS services, the Amazon S3 team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on access patterns over...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2015 is available.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Thursday,...
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View ArticleKrebs on Security: Who’s Behind Bluetooth Skimming in Mexico?
In the previous two stories, I documented the damage wrought by an organized crime gang in Mexico that has been systematically bribing ATM technicians to install Bluetooth skimming components that...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Hanging wall plotter
Our old friend Norbert “HomoFaciens” Heinz has been at it again. Norbert’s builds are consistently some of the most thorough and interesting we get to see. (They’re also fantastically narrated, and...
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