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Submission + - Slashdot's own ads take the site down! (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ads on slashdot cause chromium based browsers to crash! Many of you may not have noticed (expect most Slashdot browsers use adblock). I do not. After adding the following domains to my hosts file I managed to stop the crashing:

127.0.0.1 tpc.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 cm.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 pubads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 bid.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 c.casalemedia.com
127.0.0.1 l.betrad.com
127.0.0.1 c.betrad.com

My bet is that betrad.com is the culprit.

Submission + - Tor: This Onion Smells (qntra.net)

Submitted by MrBingoBoingo
MrBingoBoingo writes: After the backlash to Yasha Levine's original report on the monetary connection between Tor developers and the United States Government is it time for privacy activists to consider depreciating the frequent recommendation that the privacy conscious should use Tor? Between Darkmarket busts and and the Tor project's history perhaps it is time to consider the Tor network as controlled by the United States law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Submission + - First Victims Of The Stuxnet Worm Revealed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Analyzing more than 2,000 Stuxnet files collected over a two-year period, Kaspersky Lab can identify the first victims of the Stuxnet worm. Initially security researchers had no doubt that the whole attack had a targeted nature. The code of the Stuxnet worm looked professional and exclusive; there was evidence that extremely expensive zero-day vulnerabilities were used. However, it wasn’t yet known what kind of organizations were attacked first and how the malware ultimately made it right through to the uranium enrichment centrifuges in the particular top secret facilities. Kaspersky Lab analysis sheds light on these questions.

Submission + - Germans Get Free Heating From The Cloud (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: The idea of re-using waste server heat is not new, but German firm Cloud&Heat seems to have developed it further than most. For a flat installation fee, the company will install a rack of servers in your office, with its own power and Internet connection. Cloud&Heat then pay the bills and you get the heat. As well as Heat customers, the firm wants Cloud customers, who can buy a standard OpenStack-based cloud compute and storage service on the web. The company guarantees that data is encrypted and held within Germany — at any one of its Heat customers' premises. In principle, it's a way to build a data center with no real estate, by turning its waste heat into an asset. A similar deal is promised by French firm Qarnot..

Submission + - ARRL Investigating Web Server Breach (arrl.org)

Submitted by helix2301
helix2301 writes: The ARRL reports that its web servers were the victim of a hacking attack in late September. According to the ARRL Letter, IT Manager Mike Keane, K1MK, said the affected servers were taken offline and isolated from the Internet when the breach was discovered. He said no sensitive personal information was affected, but still urged members who have not updated their passwords since April 2010 to do so now.

Submission + - Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation (komonews.com)

Submitted by blindbat
blindbat writes: A new Youtube account is pushing local police agencies to reconsider their use of body-mounted cameras. Poulsbo Police have been wearing body cameras for about a year, and the department says the results have been good. But last month reality hit, in the form of a new YouTube user website, set up by someone under the name, "Police Video Requests." The profile says it posts dash and body cam videos received after public records requests to Washington state police departments. "They're just using it to post on the internet," said Chief Townsend, "and I suspect it's for commercial purposes." In September, "Police Video Requests" anonymously asked Poulsbo PD for every second of body cam video it has ever recorded. The department figures it will take three years to fill that request. And Chief Townsend believes it is a huge privacy concern, as officers often see people on their worst days. "People with mental illness, people in domestic violence situations; do we really want to have to put that video out on YouTube for people? I think that's pushing it a little bit," he said.

Submission + - Will an open Internet policy emerge? FCC Advisor on net neutrality (opensource.com)

Submitted by jenwike
jenwike writes: In the wake of President Obama's stance on net neutrality we wonder, where does the FCC stand and when will they make it known? Melanie Chernoff, Public Policy Manager for Red Hat, attended a forum led by Daniel Alvarez, Legal Advisor for Wireline, Public Safety, and Homeland Security at the FCC, last week with the North Carolina Technology Association about the FCC’s deliberations on a framework to "protect and promote Internet openness." Alvarez says the FCC is clear on the goals of a net neutrality policy and described the "virtuous cycle" of innovation spurred by the Internet. When asked about the burden imposed on ISPs, he replied, "There will be a burden on providers. The question is, 'Is that burden justified?' And I think our answer is 'Yes.'"

Submission + - New Tech Could Allow Electric Cars' Body Panels to Store Energy (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Imagine opening up an electric car and finding no batteries. An absent-minded factory worker or magic? Perhaps neither. If nanotechnology scientists led by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are on the right track, it may one day be a reality as cars are powered not by batteries, but their body panels – inside which are sandwiched a new breed of supercapacitors.

Submission + - Chinese government backs hacking against human rights activists, says study (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A four-year study by Citizen Lab outlines a persistent pattern of attack against organisations which are critical of human rights issues in China, and determines that the Chinese government is either directly behind the attacks or otherwise supports them.

"There's no doubt about it," says Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab. "This is something that is, if not carefully orchestrated by the government of China, is certainly tolerated by them and they benefit from it,”

The study monitored ten Civil Society Organisations, including five in the malware-besieged city of Dharamsala, the home-place of the Dalai Lama, and noted a structured and adaptive approach to attacks on volunteer human rights organisations there, which involve the delivery of malware and campaigns of social engineering, neither of which most of the organisations are equipped to fight.

Submission + - Going full circle: How Playrise went from console to mobile and back again (redbull.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Free-to-play gaming was ripped to pieces in last week's South Park, but it's not just gamers fed up with the cynical business model. It's developers too. A new interview with Nick Burcombe, the founder of Liverpool indie studio Playrise Digital reveals how the company went from leaving Sony to take on the brave world of mobile with Table Top Racing, before ultimately moving back to PS4 with the World Tour sequel.

"If you're going to go into free-to-play then you've got to be really serious about chasing down monetisation and refining it through analytics. It started to change the shape of the company from what we originally intended," Burcombe says. "We were looking through all this data and thinking 'Well, we're not making games here, this is not what we're good at or what we wanted to do when we got into this'."

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