TorrentFreak: Hadopi Reports on Five Years of “Three Strikes” Piracy Measures
This week the French "three strikes" anti-piracy system has been in operation for five years. To commemorate the event the HADOPI agency overseeing the scheme has provided some statistics. In 60...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Self-Destructing Computer Chip
The chip is built on glass: Shattering the glass is straightforward. When the proper circuit is toggled, a small resistor within the substrate heats up until the glass shatters. According to Corning,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Harrington: Wayland: Atomics Ahead!
Bryce Harrington writes about the current and future state of Wayland. "A lot of people are anticipating Wayland on their desktops. For now, we remain in a holding pattern while the DE developers roll...
View ArticleLWN.net: Thursday’s security updates
Fedora has updated vorbis-tools (F22: denial of service). Mageia has updated ganglia-web (M4, M5: authentication bypass). openSUSE has updated spice (13.2: code execution). Oracle has updated kernel...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: ISPs Agree to Block The Pirate Bay in Iceland
Local Internet providers in Iceland have reached an agreement with entertainment industry representatives to prevent subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay and Deildu.net. The private agreement is...
View ArticleAWS Security Blog: Use AWS Services to Comply with Security Best...
As security professionals, it is our job to be sure that our decisions comply with best practices. Best practices, though, tend to be time consuming, which means we either don’t get around to...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: A day in the life of a pentester,...
As a professional penetration tester I often get asked questions like What are the top 10 tools you use or How do you get to be a pentester. Since I become a SANS instructor more and more these...
View Articleyovko in a nutshell: Изборни несъвършенства
Предходната ми публикация предизвика разни дискусии, в които някои хора защитават тезата, че текущият offline начин на гласуване им изглежда някак приемливо несъвършен. Което мога да си обясня...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Two Security Companies Battling It Out over Disclosures
Okay, this is weird. FireEye has gone to court to prevent ERNW from disclosing vulnerabilities in FireEye products. FireEye should know better. Here's FireEye's statement, BTW.
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: 8 Highlights in Storage...
In September 2009, we introduced the Backblaze Storage Pod to the storage community. We then open sourced the Storage Pod’s hardware design, and included a parts list, assembly instructions, and a cool...
View ArticleLWN.net: Rust 1.3 is available
Version 1.3 of the Rust language has been released. The announcement API stabilization and increased performance work as the most notable changes. Specifically, there is a new substring-matching...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday,...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPA Reveals 500+ Instances of Pirate Site Blocking in Europe
MPA Deputy General Counsel Okke Visser has revealed that European instances of site blocking on copyright grounds now exceed 500. During a presentation in the UK yesterday, Visser highlighted 13...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Smart Watch that Monitors Typing
Here's a watch that monitors the movements of your hand and can guess what you're typing. Using the watch's built-in motion sensors, more specifically data from the accelerometer and gyroscope,...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: SeeMore for World Maker Faire 2015
We’re gearing up to go to World Maker Faire in at the New York Hall of Science on September 26 and 27 – if you’re going to be there, please come and say hi at the Raspberry Pi booth. We’ll have demos,...
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View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Fedora has updated ipython (F22; F21: cross-site scripting). Mageia has updated icedtea-web (M5: multiple vulnerabilities) and wordpress (M4: multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated sblim-sfcb...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Get to Know the Elementary OS Freya...
Out of the box, Linux is one of the most secure computing platforms you will ever use. For most users, that out-of-the-box experience is good enough. For some, however, there is plenty of fine-tuning...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: BitTorrent Traffic Share Drops to New Low
New data published by Canadian network management company Sandvine reveals that BitTorrent's share of total Internet traffic during peak hours is going down. For the first time since the file-sharing...
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