Krebs on Security: With Stolen Cards, Fraudsters Shop to Drop
A time-honored method of extracting cash from stolen credit cards involves "reshipping" scams, which manage the purchase, reshipment and resale of carded consumer goods from America to Eastern Europe...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 09/28/15
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Tomorrowland' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Minions.' 'Mad Max: Fury Road' completes the top three.Source: TorrentFreak, for the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Megaupload Paid Prolific Pirates Thousands in Rewards, U.S. Says
In a rewards program that lasted five years, Megaupload paid out more than $3m to users who uploaded content the site. One of those was paid more than $50,000, despite having more than 1,200 takedown...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: "Transport of London"...
This morning, I received several e-mails with the subject Email from Transport of London. The attacker even picked a plausible From address with noresponse@cclondon.com. This domain is used by...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Good Article on the Sony Attack
Fortune has a three-part article on the Sony attack by North Korea. There's not a lot of tech here; it's mostly about Sony's internal politics regarding the movie and IT security before the attack, and...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Bay Founder Finally Free After Three Years
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm is a free man again after serving three years in prison for hacking and copyright offenses. His release marks the end of a turbulent and tough period characterized...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security updates for Monday
Arch Linux has updated chromium (information disclosure). Debian has updated cyrus-sasl2 (denial of service from 2013). Debian-LTS has updated eglibc (multiple vulnerabilities) and nss (two...
View ArticleLWN.net: Coming soon… Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2
The Apache OpenOffice blog promises that the 4.1.2 release is coming soon. "Most of the code changes for OpenOffice 4.1.2 have already been integrated. Dozens of old and new developers contributed in...
View ArticleLWN.net: Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched the Offline project, "a campaign devoted to digital heroes—coders, bloggers, and technologists—who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even...
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Darknet - The Darkside: FSFlow – A Social Engineering Call Flow Application
FSFlow is a Social Engineering Call Flow Application, which was created to improve and standardize social engineering calls. It’s a difficult thing to do, conversations can go almost anywhere over the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Aurous Dev Fires Back at “Fearmongering, Babbling” Rightscorp
Aurous, the music equivalent of Popcorn Time, is just two weeks away from alpha release but anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp is already touting a 'solution' to deal with the software. Biting back, Aurous'...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: AWS Week in Review – September 21, 2015
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday September 21 We announced the AWS Pop-up Loft in Berlin. The Cloud Academy Blog shared AWS re:Invent 2015 – A Guide to Cloud...
View ArticleLWN.net: Five years of LibreOffice
The Document Foundation celebrates the fifth birthday of LibreOffice, which was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010. "LibreOffice 5.0, launched in early August, has been the...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Elastic Beanstalk Update – Support for Java and Go
My colleague Abhishek Singh is the product manager for . He wrote the following guest post in order to let you know that the service now supports Java JAR files and the Go programming language! — Jeff;...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Ra: sound art from a pyrite sun disc
The video below introduces an unsual sound art piece based on a Raspberry Pi. Named Ra – as in the sun god of the ancient Egyptians – it’s a little like a record player, except that it doesn’t play...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES
We launched the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) way back in 2011, with a focus on deliverability — getting mail through to the intended recipients. Today, the service is used by Amazon and our...
View ArticleBradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ): How Would Software Freedom Have Helped With...
[ A version of this blog post was crossposted on Conservancy's blog. ] Would software-related scandals, such as Volkswagen's use of proprietary software to lie to emissions inspectors, cea...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Tuesday,...
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View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Law Enforcement’s Love/Hate Relationship with Cloud...
There's a story going around today regarding an individual who was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer when authorities arrived over a noise complaint. But cellphone video recorded by...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Jessie Is Here
Jessie is here? Who’s Jessie? Wasn’t she the cowgirl doll in “Toy Story 2” – you know, the one who got abandoned in a park to that Sarah McLachlan song, resulting in at least one software engineer...
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