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Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous
On April 20th, 2015 with 22 comments
AnonTechie writes: Ars Technica recently
reviewed two "Tor routers", devices...
It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG
On April 21st, 2015 with 33 comments
"gewg_" writes:El Reg reports Penetration tester Marcus Murray says attackers...
Leakers! Leakers everywhere!
On April 22nd, 2015 with 33 comments
kadal writes:Starting with Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, Bruce Schneier...
Twitter Fights Trolls, Invites Trolls, and Trolls U.S.
On April 22nd, 2015 with 17 comments
takyon writes:Twitter has announced a series of new anti-abuse measures,...
Metasploit says Papers Please or Go Home!
On April 23rd, 2015 with 19 comments
juggs writes:Ripping a morsel of a meal from the talons of El Reg, we end up...
OpenID launched today
On April 23rd, 2015 with 12 comments
rickatech writes:With support from Google, Microsoft, Ping Identity,...
House Passes Cybersecurity Bill Despite Privacy Protests
On April 24th, 2015 with 4 comments
AnonTechie writes:CONGRESS IS HELLBENT on passing a cybersecurity bill that...
Statistician Sues Election Official over Voting Machine Anomalies
On April 24th, 2015 with 36 comments
MsgHack writes:From the Wichita Eagle:
A Wichita State University...
Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs
On April 26th, 2015 with 43 comments
AnonTechie writes:On Wednesday, at the RSA conference in San Francisco,...
Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers
On April 26th, 2015 with 24 comments
AnonTechie writes:
From Ars Technica:On Saturday the New York Times reported...
US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon
On April 28th, 2015 with 19 comments
takyon writes:The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been showing off its...
Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack
On April 29th, 2015 with 10 comments
AnonTechie writes:In 2001, a doctor in New York completed what may seem like a...
Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection"
On April 29th, 2015 with 35 comments
takyon writes:The Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning of a new...
OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility
On April 29th, 2015 with 18 comments
canopic jug writes:Via BSD Now, the old, familiar file command has been...
Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog
On April 30th, 2015 with 28 comments
AnonTechie writes:Security and privacy are not mutually exclusive says...
US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret
On April 30th, 2015 with 32 comments
AnonTechie writes: The US government will be forced to explain why its cell...
SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems
On April 30th, 2015 with 24 comments
AnonTechie writes: The Register covers the difficulty of putting SHA-1 crypto...
Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped
On May 1st, 2015 with 54 comments
AnonTechie writes: Ars Technica reports about a case in Missouri that may have...
Spam-Blasting Malware Infects Thousands of Linux and FreeBSD Servers
On May 2nd, 2015 with 20 comments
AnonTechie writes:...
How to Crack Many Master Lock Combinations in Eight Tries or Less
On May 2nd, 2015 with 20 comments
chromas writes:Ars technica has an article about a system for cracking...
Ask Soylent: How To Inform Domains by Proxy Customer Of Website Defacement?
On May 3rd, 2015 with 38 comments
MichaelDavidCrawford writes:I recently updated my list of Seattle Tech...
Google Password Alert could be Foiled with Just 7 Lines of JavaScript
On May 3rd, 2015 with 9 comments
AnonTechie writes:Google has been obliged to revise its Password Alert...
Train Control Centre Passwords Revealed on BBC TV
On May 4th, 2015 with 53 comments
chromas writes: Nick and Margaret: The Trouble with Our Trains is a BBC Two...
How to Detect ‘Quantum Insert’ Attacks
On May 5th, 2015 with 11 comments
AnonTechie writes:Among all of the NSA hacking operations exposed by...
Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way!
On May 5th, 2015 with 67 comments
kadal writes:We've previously covered Mozilla considering a push to deprecate...
Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal
On May 7th, 2015 with 38 comments
AnonTechie writes: Wired is reporting:THE UNITED STATES Court of Appeals for...
Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable
On May 9th, 2015 with 11 comments
AnonTechie writes:A staggering 95 percent of enterprise SAP installations...
US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm
On May 9th, 2015 with 63 comments
sigma writes:...
Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison For Sharing Classified Information
On May 12th, 2015 with 12 comments
takyon writes:Former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling has been sentenced to three...
Bigger Than Heartbleed, 'Venom' Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters
On May 14th, 2015 with 34 comments
AnonTechie writes:A security research firm is warning that a new bug could...
"Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of
reliable, well-engineered commercial software?"
(By Matt Welsh)
