Schneier on Security: Spoofing Fitness Trackers
The website Unfitbits.com has a series of instructional videos on how to spoof fitness trackers, using such things as a metronome, pendulum, or power drill. With insurance companies like John Hancock...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Wordclock Redux
Readers who’ve been with us since the beginning of this year might remember Bernd Krolla’s beautiful and elegant Raspberry Pi-based Wordclock. Since we last wrote about it, Bernd and friends have...
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Darknet - The Darkside: WinRAR Vulnerability Is Complete Bullshit
So Twitter exploded earlier with calls of a remote code execution WinRAR vulnerability leaving half a BILLION users open for some hardcore exploitation. I got interested (obviously..as that’s what I do...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Compile-time stack validation
An occasionally heard horror story about the kernel development community concerns developers who are told that, in order to get their code upstream, they must first invest considerable effort into...
View ArticleLWN.net: The Linux Foundation Releases Value of Collaborative Development Report
The Linux Foundation has announced the release of its first ever report that attempts to measure the estimated value of development costs in its Collaborative Projects. The report is titled “A $5...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New AWS Security Courses (Fundamentals & Operations)
It’s probably no surprise that information security is one of today’s most sought after IT specialties. It’s also deeply important to our customers and any company considering moving to the cloud. So,...
View ArticleAWS Security Blog: Now Available: New AWS Security Training Classes
Today we launched a new AWS training curriculum on security. The two new classes made available today are designed to help you meet your cloud security objectives under the AWS Shared Responsibility...
View ArticleErrata Security: Jeb Bush is a cyber-weenie
Jeb Bush, one of them many 2016 presidential candidates, has numerous positions on "cyber" issues. They are all pretty silly, demonstrating that not only he but also his advisors profoundly...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Mistakenly-deployed test patch...
Earlier today, various sources reporteda highly-suspicious Windows update. According to Ars Technica,a Microsoft spokesperson stated the company hadincorrectly published a test update and isin the...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Amazon EMR Release 4.1.0 – Spark 1.5.0, Hue 3.7.1, HDFS...
My colleagues Jon Fritz and Abhishek Sinha are both Senior Product Managers on the team. They wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the newest release of EMR and to tell you about new EMR...
View ArticleВелоеволюция: Есенно преброяване на велосипедните потоци в София
С настъпването на есента идва последния етап от най-важното усилие на Велоеволюция за годината – преброяването на велосипедните потоци в София. За есенното преброяване търсим 30 доброволци – желаещите...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Paramount Pictures Fails to Silence uTorrent Discussions
In an attempt to make it harder for people to find pirated copies of its movies, Paramount Pictures has tried to remove several uTorrent forum posts from Google's search results. However, it turns out...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: How ISPs Will Royally Sucker the Internet, Thanks to...
Largely lost in the current controversies about users blocking ads from websites is a dirty little secret -- users are about to be played for suckers by the dominant ISPs around the world, and ad...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Recent trends in Nuclear Exploit...
Introduction Since mid-September 2015, Ive generated a great deal of Nuclear exploit kit (EK) traffic after checking compromised websites. This summer, I usually foundAngler EK. Now Im seeing more...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 1, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 1, 2015 is available.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Thursday,...
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View ArticleTorrentFreak: Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Microsoft ‘Shamed’ as Piracy Sponsors
Car manufacturers including Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Volvo plus technology giant Microsoft are just a handful of the 100 major companies set to be outed as sponsors of piracy sites by the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Identifying CIA Officers in the Field
During the Cold War, the KGB was very adept at identifying undercover CIA officers in foreign countries through what was basically big data analysis. (Yes, this is a needlessly dense and very...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Suffers Downtime
The Pirate Bay is down at the moment, causing concern among many BitTorrent users. While some fear the worst, the site probably won't be offline for very long. Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Kids! Teachers! Developers! PyConUK was a blast!
PyConUK is one of the Education Team’s favourite events of the year. We love the fact that as well as being a great community developer event, they also run an Education track for kids and teachers to...
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