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judgecorp writes: Reports that the author of the Blackhole exploit kit has been arrested in Russia have been confirmed. The creator, called Paunch,has been nabbed, according to Troels Oerting, head of the European Cybercrime Centre. Blackhole was being updated daily until four days ago, which is more evidence of the arrest — although security researchers warn there are still functioning versions out there.
An anonymous reader writes: The NSA/GCHQ disaster seems to be a really great opportunity for Linux distributions to advertise their spyware-free operating system and their intentional willingness to not cooperate with spying programs. Yet, while this pitch would be such a goldmine of excellent and almost free advertisement destined to go viral automagically, especially when all the big operating-system corporations have been found in a warm bed with the spooks, we do not see any such public announcements from Red Hat/Fedora, Canonical/Ubuntu or the likes. There is also no sign of dead man's switches appearing, which is the least one could do to avoid suspicion. Should we take these facts as signs of incompetence in benefiting from the NSA fallout or is it a sign that Linux, or its distributions, are not so innocent after all?
Tuck News writes: China, the USA's biggest foreign creditor is warning Congress it must resolve the political impasse over the debt ceiling without further delay. China's Vice Foreign Minister, Zhu Guangyao, told America's deadlocked politicians on Monday that "the clock is ticking" and called on them to approve an extension of the national borrowing limit before the federal government is projected to run out of cash on 17 October, a date that is rapidly approaching.
So when the US spies and lies, it's all in the name of safety. When the Germans fly over an embassy to check for antenna's to protect themselves from that spying, it's a provocation? That's newspeak isn't it?
sfcrazy writes: Bradley Manning has spoken today in the court before his defense closed. He did not speak like a hero who wanted to expose the wrong doings. He did not speak like a hero who was willing to pay a heavy price for justice, ethics, morality and humanity.
nekohayo writes: While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a month ago, work has recently been done to bring true hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided additional technical details about the implementation.
There are no limits to what a DIY-er kan buy in China. And with SDR (software defined radio) and open source GSM software, it takes relatively little effort to build one yourself. There's even a small GSM router (20-30 euros on evilbay) that's very popular for that sort of projects. It holds the GSM modem and Wifi, so you can easily control it from a laptop.
That's one of the problems: the bunker isn't IN The Netherlands, legally. It seems the Dutch government gave up that piece of land to NATO and later on, NATO sold it. That doesn't mean the CyberBunker company isn't bound by the law, but I'm willing to bet there are a couple of legal barriers built in too.
It is a real ex-NATO bunker supposed to survive a nuclear attack. Cutting off communications would need intervention from several suppliers. The lines are buried very deep and protected. And cutting off power would be utterly useless. There are diesel generators and a supply of diesel that could last for months. And all the rest: air and water purification systems etc.
