TorrentFreak: Dutch Filmmakers Claim Piracy Damages From Government
Filmmakers claim that the Dutch Government has tolerated and even encouraged unauthorized downloading for years. In response, a local filmmakers' association is demanding compensation for the losses...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: How GCHQ Tracks Internet Users
The Intercept has a new story from the Snowden documents about The UK's GCHQ's surveillance of the Internet: The mass surveillance operation code-named KARMA POLICE was launched by British spies...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: ATM Skimmer Gang Firebombed Antivirus Firm
It's notable whenever cybercime spills over into real-world, physical attacks. This is the story of a Russian security firm whose operations were pelted with Molotov cocktail attacks after exposing an...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Russian Facebook Ordered to Crack Down on Piracy
The Russian equivalent of Facebook has been ordered by a court to crack down on music piracy. Following legal action initiated by Warner and Universal, VKontakte must prevent piracy using filtering...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: Getting Past the Cloud-Security Conundrum in the Government...
October, deemed National Cyber Security Awareness Month by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, is just a couple days away. But, as we’ve seen from the many security breaches and attacks over the past...
View ArticleLWN.net: Tuesday’s security advisories
CentOS has updated openldap (C6; C5: denial of service). Debian-LTS has updated virtualbox-ose (multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2013) and vorbis-tools (multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Using the KVM API
Many developers, users, and entire industries rely on virtualization, as provided by software like Xen, QEMU/KVM, or kvmtool. While QEMU can run a software-based virtual machine, and Xen can run...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: RUTracker Says Copyright Holders Can Moderate its Torrents
Giant Russian torrent site RUTracker says it is prepared to take extraordinary measures to ward off action that could see the site permanently blocked by local ISPs. RUTracker, the 17th largest site in...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Tricks for DLL analysis, (Tue,...
Very often I get questions on how to perform analysis on DLL files. The reason being that it is easier to perform behavioral analysis on executables, either using external sandboxes or a vmware with...
View ArticleLWN.net: Two new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernels 4.2.2 and 4.1.9. Both contain numerous fixes throughout the tree.
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New AWS Digital Library for Big Data Solutions
My colleague Luis Daniel Soto has been working with AWS Community Hero Lynn Langit to create a comprehensive collection of resources for customers who are ready to run Big Data applications on AWS!...
View Articlexkcd.com: Moments of Inspiration
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday,...
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View ArticleErrata Security: Prez: Candidate synchronization
So last week I gave $10 to all the presidential campaigns, in order to watch their antics. One thing that's weird is that they often appear to act in unison, as if they are either copying each other,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Rightscorp Retains Dallas Buyers Club Copyright Troll Lawyer
Anti-piracy monetization firm Rightscorp says it has retained a lawyer known for his work with infamous copyright troll Dallas Buyers Club. Carl Crowell, who recently claimed that it's impossible to be...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Volkswagen and Cheating Software
For the past six years, Volkswagen has been cheating on the emissions testing for its diesel cars. The cars' computers were able to detect when they were being tested, and temporarily alter how their...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: OUCH October Newsletter –...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPAA and RIAA’s Megaupload Lawsuits Delayed Until 2016
Megaupload has asked a federal court in Virginia to postpone its legal battles with the MPAA and RIAA while the criminal proceedings remain pending. The movie studios and recording labels haven't...
View ArticleВелоеволюция: Оценка на велоалеите в София
Всички видяхме новите велоалеи и велосипедни ленти в София. Наред с изненадата и коментара че “нещо се прави”, остават и забележките към качеството на изграденото и безопасността. Много от нас карат...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
CentOS has updated openldap (C7: denial of service). Debian-LTS has updated flightgear (inadequate filesystem validation checks), freetype (denial of service), libemail-address-perl (denial of...
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