LWN.net: Tuesday’s security updates
Debian has updated postgresql-9.4 (two vulnerabilities) and wordpress (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated opensmtpd (F22: multiple vulnerabilities) and sssd (F22; F21: memory leak)....
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: When Facebook’s “Real Name” Policies Can Kill
A week ago in: Social Media Abuse Stories to Shrivel Your Soul I discussed the wide range of serious problems resulting from social media "real names" identity requirements, with Facebook being the...
View ArticleLWN.net: ownCloud Server 8.2 released
OwnCloud Server 8.2 is available. This release features a a revamped user interface and many improvements for ownCloud administrators. "ownCloud Server 8.2 makes it possible for ownCloud...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPAA Asks Government to Facilitate Private Anti-Piracy Deals
The MPAA has asked the U.S. Government for help in its efforts to reach private anti-piracy agreements with search engines, domain name registrars and hosting services. The Hollywood group believes...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] Rich access control lists
Access control lists (ACLs) can implement finer-grained access permissions for files than the traditional Unix mode bits. Linux has ACL support, but the POSIX ACLs supported by Linux now have been...
View Articlexkcd.com: Play-By-Play
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Flash, Java Patches Fix Critical Holes
Adobe has issued a patch to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software. Separately, Oracle today released an update to plug more than two-dozen flaws in its Java software. Both programs...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Wednesday,...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Oracle Critical Patch Update for...
On Tuesday, Oracle released its Quarterly Critical Patch Update or CPU for short. As usual, this release covers a long list of different products, and is too large to summarize in a diary. Oracle...
View ArticleSource Code in TV and Films:...
http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/Net2/newsrc/ufs/ufsmount.h.html Taken from Person of interest S1Ep21
View ArticleКлошкодил: Програма на OpenFest 2015
И като продукт на submission-ите на много хора, гласуване от hackerspace-овете, нашето търсене на лектори, 5-6 часа спорове в програмния комитет и няколко дни писане на код – почти финалната програма...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Popcorn Time & YTS Global Outages Cause Concern
A confusing situation is underway after the main Popcorn Time fork went down and its Facebook and Twitter accounts disappeared. Simultaneously, YTS.to, the video resource on which the Popcorn Time...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Security Risks of Unpatched Android Software
A lot has been written about the security vulnerability resulting from outdated and unpatched Android software. The basic problem is that while Google regularly updates the Android software, phone...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: KickassTorrents Blocked Again Over “Harmful Programs”
KickassTorrents is continuing to have problems with Google's unwanted software policy. After the site resolved an earlier problem with a bad advertiser, Firefox and Chrome users are again barred from...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Odd DNS TXT Record. Anybody Seen...
A reader sent us an odd looking DNS TXT record. The record was recovered from an old, decommissioned, DNS server. Has anybody seen this before? The zone also include the Google Apps authentication...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Back To Our Future
As you’ve probably already read, today is that day. October 21st, 2015. The day Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future to help the McFly descendants. If you haven’t seen the Back To The Future...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
CentOS has updated libwmf (C7; C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated libwmf (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat...
View ArticleAWS Compute Blog: Using Amazon EFS to Persist Data from Amazon ECS Containers
My colleagues Jeremy Cowan and Drew Dennis sent a nice guest post that shows how to use Amazon Elastic File System with Amazon ECS. — Docker containers are ideal for building microservices because...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: A creative person’s guide to computing
This year, for the first time, we are running the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists programme, mentoring a small group of young people aged 16-21 years as they explore using digital technology to...
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