Anchor Cloud Hosting: E-commerce site search – understanding customer behaviour
As someone who dabbles in online shopping more often than I should, I can say first hand that a pleasant user experience can easily turn a one time buyer into a regular, cart-filling devotee. An...
View ArticleMatthew Garrett: Why improving kernel security is important
The Washington Post published an article today which describes the ongoing tension between the security community and Linux kernel developers. This has been roundly denounced as FUD, with Rob Graham...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: U.S. Judge Explores Return of Megaupload Data
There's a chance that after four years Megaupload users may be reunited with their lost files. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O'Grady has asked several stakeholders to chime in on the possible return...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Tracking HTTP POST data with ELK,...
The Apache webserver has a very modular logging system. It is possible to customize what to log and how. But it lacks in logging data submitted to the server via POST HTTP requests. Recently, I had to...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: FCC Fines Cox $595K Over Lizard Squad Hack
In September 2014, I penned a column called "We Take Your Privacy and Security. Seriously." It recounted my experience receiving notice from my former Internet service provider -- Cox Communications --...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Astro Pi website launch
In a month’s time we’re sending two Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station as part of two Astro Pi flight units. We’ve all been beavering away for the last 12 months in preparation, and the...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: SpiderFoot – Open Source Intelligence Automation Tool...
SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence automation tool. Its goal is to automate the process of gathering intelligence about a given target, which may be an IP address, domain name, hostname or...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Aurous Gets Beaten Up By the RIAA But Peace is Near
The RIAA is demanding a preliminary injunction to bring the downed Aurous music service to its knees. While Aurous is fighting back, the RIAA's lawyers are giving their adversaries a legal beat down,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated nspr (code execution) and nss (code execution). Debian has updated libreoffice (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated drupal7 (F22: open redirect), mediawiki (F21; F22;...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Marjorie Joins the...
With the upcoming release of Backblaze B2, we are staffing up our engineering team. The latest addition is Marjorie Ready! She’s working remotely out of Madison, Wisconsin, bringing the total number of...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] A new Mindcraft moment?
It is not often that Linux kernel development attracts the attention of a mainstream newspaper like The Washington Post; lengthy features on the kernel community's approach to security are even more...
View ArticleLWN.net: Trinity 1.6 released
Dave Jones has announced, at long last, a new release of the Trinity kernel fuzz-testing tool. "At last weeks kernel summit, a number of people expressed just how useful they find Trinity and how much...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: The Symbiotic Relationship...
Margaret McFall-Ngai studies the symbiotic relationship between squid and the bacteria that live inside them. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Portugal Rapidly & Voluntarily Blocks Dozens More ‘Pirate’ Sites
Courtesy of copyright holders, ISPs in Portugal have received a large new batch of 'pirate' domain notifications from the government. A voluntary anti-piracy agreement means that the providers now have...
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SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Ransomware & Entropy: Your...
This is the image you can recover from the ransomed file I published in my last diary entry. Let" /> We dont see much difference between the overal entropy and the entropy of the buckets, but thats...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: UK Piracy Police Deprioritize Domain Suspension Requests
Suspending pirate domain names is no longer a priority for City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU). After ICANN ruled that registrars don't have to suspend domain names without...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Government Owned ISP Runs a Public Torrent Tracker
With the most-used torrent tracker about to fold, the BitTorrent ecosystem is in need of a stable and reliable alternative. Unfortunately, good trackers are hard to find. However, there's a glimmer of...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Pointer to Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ Interview
I recently participated in an “Ask Me Anything” interview on Reddit.com about investigative reporting. I spent the better part of a day responding to readers about the challenges and rewards of...
View ArticleБлогът на Юруков: Едни по-други избори
На 29 ноември във Франкфурт ще се проведат избори. Те не са за Бундестаг, кмет или което и да е много нива на администрацията помежду им. В по-големите градове в провинцията има т.н. съвети на...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: YTS Reaches MPAA Deal But Dotcom Faces Decades in Jail?
How does YTS, one of the most organized and notorious public torrent sites, strike a deal with Hollywood despite being listed as a notorious market by the U.S. government? We're all curious to know...
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