Pid Eins: systemd.conf close to being sold out!
Only 14 tickets still available! systemd.conf 2015 is close to being sold out, there are only 14 tickets left now. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, now is the time to do it, because otherwise it...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Making our users unlearn what we...
Remember back in the ancient days, when macro viruses were rampant, and we security geeks instructed our flock of virus scared users to never click on a .DOC attachment in an email, but that a .PDF...
View ArticleBradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): The EPA Deserves Software Freedom, Too
The issue of software freedom is, not surprisingly, not mentioned in the mainstream coverage of Volkswagen's recent use of proprietary software to circumvent important regulations that exist for the...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday,...
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View ArticleErrata Security: I gave $10 to every presidential candidate
What happens when your candidate drops out of the 2016 presidential race? What do they do with the roughly million names of donors they've collected?I've decided that somebody needs to answer this...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: “Happy Birthday” Enters Public Domain, Judge Rules Copyright...
A group of artists have won a landmark victory over the Happy Birthday song. A California judge ruled that the copyrights to one of the world's most popular melodies is invalid. As a result, Happy...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Hacking the Game Show “Press Your Luck”
Fascinating story about a man who figured out how to hack the game show "Press Your Luck" in 1984.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Big James Bond ‘Spectre’ Piracy Threat Could Be Avoided
The launch of new James Bond film 'Spectre' next month will be met with a nationwide security effort to stop the movie from being pirated. Night vision goggles will be used to track down 'cammers' in...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Bidding for Breaches, Redefining Targeted Attacks
A growing community of private and highly-vetted cybercrime forums is redefining the very meaning of "targeted attacks." These bid-and-ask forums match crooks who are looking for access to specific...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Cisco IOS / IOS XE security...
Cisco have released three patch bulletins today http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/Cisco_ERP_sep15.html for issues affecting their IOS and IOS XE firmware. The most intriguing one on...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated firefox (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (C6: information leak). Fedora has updated kernel (F21:...
View ArticleLWN.net: GNOME 3.18
The GNOME Project has announced the release of GNOME 3.18. "This release brings significant improvements to many of our core applications, from better Google Drive integration in Files to a list view...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Sensly: an air quality monitoring HAT
Altitude Technology have a very interesting Kickstarter campaign that’s just entering its final few days. It’s for an Internet of Things air quality monitoring device called Sensly, and one of the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Forum Knocked Offline by ICANN Complaint
The Pirate Bay's official SuprBay forum has gone dark after experiencing domain name problems. The forum's domain name registrar eNom suspended the site following an ICANN complaint over inaccurate...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: How to create a custom scheduler for Amazon ECS
My colleague Daniele Stroppa sent a nice guest post that shows how to create a custom scheduler for Amazon ECS. — Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 24, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 24, 2015 is available.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Thursday,...
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View ArticleMatthew Garrett: Filling in the holes in Linux boot chain measurement, and...
When I wrote about TPM attestation via 2FA, I mentioned that you needed a bootloader that actually performed measurement. I've now written some patches for Shim and Grub that do so.The Shim code does a...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: U.S. Uncovers Kim Dotcom’s Self-incriminating Skype Calls
After several years' delay the extradition hearing of Kim Dotcom finally got moving this morning in the Auckland District Court. Characterizing the case as one of straightforward fraud, Crown lawyer...
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