Submission + - Hacker News History (hnhistory.net)
An anonymous reader writes: I made this little app for the hacker news community. Feel free to share it.
Submission + - Apple Fixes Serious SSL Issue in OS X, iOS (threatpost.com)
msm1267 writes: Apple has fixed a serious security flaw that’s present in many versions of both iOS and OSX and could allow an attacker to intercept data on SSL connections. The bug is one of many that the company fixed Tuesday in its two main operating systems, and several of the other vulnerabilities have serious consequences as well, including the ability to bypass memory protections and run arbitrary code.
The most severe of the vulnerabilities patched in iOS 7.1.1 and OSX Mountain Lion and Mavericks is an issue with the secure transport component of the operating systems. If an attacker was in a man-in-the-middle position on a user’s network, he might be able to intercept supposedly secure traffic or change the connection’s properties.
The most severe of the vulnerabilities patched in iOS 7.1.1 and OSX Mountain Lion and Mavericks is an issue with the secure transport component of the operating systems. If an attacker was in a man-in-the-middle position on a user’s network, he might be able to intercept supposedly secure traffic or change the connection’s properties.
Submission + - Apple Fixes Major SSL Bug in OSX, iOS
Trailrunner7 writes: Apple has fixed a serious security flaw that’s present in many versions of both iOS and OSX and could allow an attacker to intercept data on SSL connections. The bug is one of many that the company fixed Tuesday in its two main operating systems, and several of the other vulnerabilities have serious consequences as well, including the ability to bypass memory protections and run arbitrary code.
The most severe of the vulnerabilities patched in iOS 7.1.1 and OSX Mountain Lion and Mavericks is an issue with the secure transport component of the operating systems. If an attacker was in a man-in-the-middle position on a user’s network, he might be able to intercept supposedly secure traffic or change the connection’s properties.
The most severe of the vulnerabilities patched in iOS 7.1.1 and OSX Mountain Lion and Mavericks is an issue with the secure transport component of the operating systems. If an attacker was in a man-in-the-middle position on a user’s network, he might be able to intercept supposedly secure traffic or change the connection’s properties.
Submission + - Stephen Colbert to be Letterman's successor (newsweek.com) 3
ralphart writes: CBS has announced Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman on The Late Show, after Letterman retires in 2015.
Submission + - AT&T DNS outage affecting businesses (pcworld.com)
ralphart writes: AT&T's DNS services experienced a major outage this morning which is ongoing. As ISP nameserver caches expired, websites became unavailable to would-be site visitors.
Still no ETA on a fix from AT&T.
Still no ETA on a fix from AT&T.
Comment Re:What Sun built in goodwill, Oracle destroys. (Score 4, Interesting) 224
Ever seen the Dementers in the Harry Potter films? Larry Ellison was the model. In terms of Corporate Evil, Oracle is the Prince of Fucking Darkness. They make Microsoft look like a bunch of panty-waists.
Submission + - Web.com to acquire Network Solutions (washingtonpost.com)
ralphart writes: Network Solutions announced yesterday it was going to be acquired by Web.com for $405M plus stock. Last year, Web.com bought Register.com, another domain registrar.
Submission + - Major outage at the Amazon Web Services (amazon.com)
ralphart writes: The Northern Virginia datacenter for Amazon Web Services appears to be having a major outage that affects EC2 services. The Amazon Forums are full of reports of problems.
Latest update from the status page:
2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.
Latest update from the status page:
2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.
Submission + - Lobbyists attack UK open standards policy (zdnet.co.uk)
superglaze writes: "The Business Software Alliance, a lobbying organisation representing the likes of Microsoft, Adobe and Apple, has laid into the UK's recently-adopted policy of mandating the use of open standards wherever possible in government IT systems.The policy describes open standards as being "publicly available at zero or low cost" and having "intellectual property made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis" The BSA said this would "inadvertently reduce choice [and] hinder innovation", and even went so far as to claim open standards would lead to higher e-government costs, but open-source advocates say the policy reflects how much the European Interoperability Framework is weighted in favour of the proprietary software companies."
Submission + - Google 'finds' missing G-mails on tape (bbc.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Snippet from BBCnews.co.uk article:
"Google has apologised to customers who found their Gmail inboxes empty after accounts were accidentally wiped clean."
It goes on to mention that the accounts were backed up offline and successfully restored. The wipe is blamed on a software bug.
"Google has apologised to customers who found their Gmail inboxes empty after accounts were accidentally wiped clean."
It goes on to mention that the accounts were backed up offline and successfully restored. The wipe is blamed on a software bug.
Submission + - Amazon pulls out of Texas (dallasnews.com)
ralphart writes: Texas demands $269 million from Amazon in back sales tax. Amazon says "Uh...no thanks."
Comment Re:WANdisco's side (Score 4, Insightful) 85
I love his summation in the second blog post:
...Could these things have been said with a little less venom? Yes, probably. But the bottom line is that WE CARE because we have a deep vested interest in this Subversion stuff.
Translation: I'm a dickhead but that's okay because I'm awesome!
Comment Re:The Scorpion and the Frog (Score 1) 230
To quote a former co-worker:
Business is business and fair is fair and never the twain shall meet.
John Carmack Not Enthused About Android Marketplace 163
An anonymous reader writes "During an in-depth and informative interview, Doom creator and id Software co-founder John Carmack opines on iOS game development, the economics of mobile development vs. console development, why mobile games lend themselves to more risk-taking and greater creativity, and finally, why he's not too keen on the Android Marketplace as a money-making machine. '...I'm honestly still a little scared of the support burden and the effort that it's going to take for our products, which are very graphics-intensive.'"
Submission + - Apple's fatal weakness: iTunes (xconomy.com) 1
waderoush writes: On top of all the other features that it has crammed into iTunes, Apple this week added Ping, a Facebook-like social network for music discovery. It's all part of the company's plan to dominate the world of consumer media, but Xconomy argues that this time, Apple may have gone a bridge too far. iTunes, nearing its tenth birthday, started out merely as a program for ripping CDs, and has grown increasingly creaky and impenetrable as Apple has added more and more cruft, the article argues. The company won't have a stable base for its new media empire until it rebuilds iTunes from scratch — perhaps along the lines suggested by its other new product this week, the revamped Apple TV.
