Schneier on Security: Hacking Fitbit
This is impressive: "An attacker sends an infected packet to a fitness tracker nearby at bluetooth distance then the rest of the attack occurs by itself, without any special need for the attacker being...
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View ArticleLWN.net: A set of stable kernel updates
The 4.2.4, 4.1.11, 3.14.55, and 3.10.91 stable kernel updates are available. These are relatively large updates with a lot of important fixes.
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: ISC StormCast for Friday, October...
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AWS Security Blog: Verify Resource-Based Permissions Using the IAM Policy...
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) made it easier to help you verify your permissions by adding support for resource-based policies in the IAM policy simulator. This extends the...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Court to Decide Whether Sweden Blocks The Pirate Bay
A panel of three judges will soon decide whether The Pirate Bay should be blocked in Sweden. The case, which began yesterday in the Stockholm District Court, sees the combined might of several movie,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Forensic Analysis of Smart Card Fraud
This paper describes what is almost certainly the most sophisticated chip-and-pin credit card fraud to date. News article. BoingBoing post.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Pirate Party Beats Iceland’s Government Coalition in the Polls
The Pirate Party in Iceland continues to gain support, causing a revolution in the local political arena. According to the latest poll the party now has over a third of all votes in the country,...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: CDNs: The Next New Black
I’m a non-techie working at a technology company. This doesn’t mean I’m not highly interested in what we’re doing – because I am – it simply means that I don’t come from an engineering or IT...
View ArticleLWN.net: Swarm v. Fleet v. Kubernetes v. Mesos (O’Reilly)
Here's a survey of orchestration systems on the O'Reilly site. "Various software tools and solutions exist to help with these challenges. Let’s focus on orchestration tools, which help make all the...
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Template Management in LibreOffice 5
If you’re a LibreOffice power user, you’ve probably ventured into the realm of templates. But, if you’ve upgraded to LibreOffice 5, you’ve probably noticed a few minor changes to the way this feature...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) File...
Maksymilian Arciemowicz of CXSECURITY released an advisory showing an unpatched buffer overflow in Apples FTS library [1]. The FTS function is used by commands like ls and cd on Unix/BSD systems to...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated jdk7-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities), jdk8-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities), jre7-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities), jre7-openjdk-headless (multiple vulnerabilities),...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Botnets spreading Dridex still...
Introduction In early September 2015, we started seeing reports about arrests tied to Dridex malware [1, 2]. About that time, we noticed a lack of botnet-based malicious spam (malspam) pushing Dridex...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: WP Security Audit Log – A Complete Audit Log Plugin...
WP Security Audit Log is a complete audit log plugin for WordPress, which helps you keep an audit log of everything that is happening on your WordPress and WordPress multisite installation. Ensure user...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Popcorn Time Chaos Leads to Shutdown
The main Popcorn Time fork has been pulled offline permanently. The problem was triggered by an exodus of developers, including the person who registered the application's domain name. A few hours...
View ArticleLWN.net: Mozilla Launches Open Source Support Program
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker has announced the launch of "an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software. The main focus of the program will be to provide financial...
View ArticleErrata Security: Ethics of killing Hitler
The NYTimes asks us: if we could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would we do it? There's actually several questions here: emotional, moral, and ethical. Consider a rephrasing of the question...
View ArticleErrata Security: Dumb, dumber, and cybersecurity
The reason you got hacked is because you listen to dumbasses about cybersecurity, like Microsoft.An illustrative example is this article on "10 steps to protect" yourself. The vast majority of cyber...
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