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AlbanX writes:
The Australian Government has introduced a bill that would require telecommunications carriers and service providers to retain the non-content data of Australian citizens for two years of it can be accessed — without a warrant- by local law enforcement agencies.
Despite tabling the draft legislation into parliament, the bill doesn't actually specify the types of data the Government wants retained. The proposal has received a huge amount of criticism from the telco industry, other members of parliament and privacy groups.
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Bismillah writes:
Sydney will get two new AWS data centres in the western and south-western parts of the city. AWS apparently decided to build the new DCs after it struggled to find enough Tier III space for rapid expansion in the region.
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AlbanX writes:
Google researchers have discovered a vulnerability in a version of the SSL (secure sockets layer) web encryption protocol which allows attackers to break its cryptographic security.
The 'POODLE' attack allows attackers to steal secure HTTP cookies or other bearertokens. CDN provider CloudFlare has already disabled SSL 3.0 by default across its network, and Google said it hopes to do the same in the coming months.
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Bismillah writes:
Pre-packaged phishing kits make life easy for the script kiddies (who probably don't need to know how to script even). Now there's a new one in town, the Besmellah kit which has already been put to use to attack Apple customers.
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Bismillah writes:
Michael 'lcamtuf' Zalewski says he's discovered a new remote code execution vulnerability in the Bash parser (CVE-2014-6278) that is essentially equivalent to the original Shellshock bug, and trival to exploit.
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Bismillah writes:
From the that-didn't-take-very-long department: the Bash 'Shellshock' bug is being used to spread malware to create a botnet, wopbot, that's active and attacking Akamai and Department of Defense networks.
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Bismillah writes:
AWS is currently emailing EC2 customers that it will need to reboot their instances for maintenance over the next few days. The email doesn't explain why the reboots are being done, but it is most likely to patch for the embargoed XSA-108 bug in Xen.
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AlbanX writes:
Researchers at an Australian university are developing software with algorithms modelling the brain of a rat and human eye to create better navigation abilities for robots and smartphones.
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Bismillah writes:
EMC customers with XtremIO storage devices in production use may be in some for upgrade pain, as moving to the upcoming XIOS 3.0 operating system appears to entail a full rebuild of the array, testers say.
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Bismillah writes:
New Zealand prime minister John Key says there is no mass surveillance by spy agencies, but Edward Snowden says there is.Meanwhile, the Southern Cross data cable operator has come out and said there is no interception equipment installed on the trans-Pacific link, ergo no mass capture of data has taken place. Who is right? Both sides?
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Bismillah writes:
Wikileaks latest release of documents shows the the Australian New South Wales police force has spent millions on licenses for the FinFisher set of law enforcement spy- and malware tools — and still has active licenses. What it uses FinFisher, which has been deployed against dissidents by oppressive regimes, for is yet to be revealed.
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Bismillah writes:
Database performance can be very hard to tune, but here are five speed-up tweaks, with benchmarks, for MySQL that are worth doing.
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Bismillah writes:
"How do you tell which combination — which Linux distro and which DBMS — will give you the best performance?" this article asks and sets out to benchmark a few of the more popular distributions with MySQL and MariaDB.
