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Submission + - Misconceptions in Client-Side Security: Reverse Engineering Obfuscation (patmigliaccio.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Client-side security is never safe. No matter the practices followed, deterrents used, or tricks added, once content is presented to the user, on their machine, they have access to manipulate it in any form they desire. With that being said, understanding how certain techniques can be reverse-engineered will help a developer comprehend the concept of relying on access control and the server as a gateway to protected content.

Submission + - German Scientists Claim Climate Change Is Cyclical (mailchi.mp)

An anonymous reader writes:

The Sun as climate driver is repeatedly discussed in the literature but proofs are often weak. In order to elucidate the solar influence, we have used a large number of temperature proxies worldwide to construct a global temperature mean G7 over the last 2000 years. The Fourier spectrum of G7 shows the strongest components as ~1000-, ~460-, and ~190 — year periods whereas other cycles of the individual proxies are considerably weaker. The G7 temperature extrema coincide with the Roman, medieval, and present optima as well as the well-known minimum of AD 1450 during the Little Ice Age. We note that the temperature increase of the late 19th and 20th century is represented by the harmonic temperature representation, and thus is of pure multiperiodic nature. It can be expected that the periodicity of G7, lasting 2000 years so far, will persist also for the foreseeable future. It predicts a temperature drop from present to AD 2050, a slight rise from 2050 to 2130, and a further drop from AD 2130 to 2200


Submission + - LastPass Doubles Cost of Premium Subscription (lastpass.com)

tempo36 writes: A couple weeks ago LastPass emailed users and hinted at the upcoming LastPass Families program and upcoming changes to the LastPass interface. Today, users received an email announcing the new pricing structure. The new Premium price is double the old cost, now $24 per year. The new LastPass Families feature will be $48 and include 6 individual Premium accounts. For those folks that feared the acquisition of LastPass by LogMeIn might mean unwelcome changes, this could serve to justify those fears.

LastPass announced a restructuring of its plan pricing and packaging today and the cost of its premium tier is doubling to $24 per year. Some features are also being taken away from the free plan. Those include unlimited sharing and emergency access, both of which are now only available to LastPass Premium and Families subscribers.


Submission + - ACLU files funny amicus brief supporting John Oliver's Free Speech Rights (aclu.org)

UnknowingFool writes: The ACLU of West Virginia has filed a hilarious amicus curae brief arguing that Murray Energy's lawsuit of John Oliver should be dismissed based on First Amendment rights.

To recap: On June 17, John Oliver on his show, Last Week Tonight, did a segment on the coal industry and particularly on Bob Murray, CEO of the Ohio-based Murray Energy Corporation. Specifically, John Oliver poked fun of Murray by comparing him to a geriatric Dr. Evil and taunting him with a person in a squirrel costume. Oliver did this after Murray's lawyers sent the show a cease and desist letter and threatening to sue after the show reached out to Murray Energy for comments while preparing the segment.

Not surprisingly Murray's lawyers filed a lawsuit against the show a few days after the broadcast. In the lawsuit, Murray Energy is seeking to bar Last Week Tonight and HBO from airing the episode again. Also they want to impose a gag order on Oliver and the show writers from publicly discussing the suit (gag order). As noted by Oliver and the ACLU, Murray has sued others in past, particularly any news outlets that reported unfavorably against him and his company.

In the legal brief by the ACLU they have organized arguments with the names like "Anyone Can Legally Say 'Eat Shit, Bob!'" and " . . . You Can’t Sue People for Being Mean to You, Bob".

Submission + - DigiCert Acquires Symantec's SSL Businesses

An anonymous reader writes: As we discussed here a few weeks ago, Symantec has been considering a sale of its SSL businesses. As of August 2, Symantec has reached an agreement with DigiCert, in a deal worth $950 in cash (plus a substantial amount of DigiCert stock). The official DigiCert blog entry directly notes the recent issues Symantec has had within the browser community and the looming sanctions, whereas the official Symantec blog entry glosses over this point. According to the joint press release: "...existing Symantec Website Security customers will be able to transition to a new platform that meets all industry standards and browser requirements and provides the foundation for future innovation in the Certificate Authority space for the benefit of customers."

Comment Re:So, uhhh (Score 3, Funny) 66

"Back in my days as a video game white-hat tester I wrote a python script. After much refactoring, it now logs in to every box through a client listener socket I have open on each workstation, and checks to make sure everything is patched." So you have homegrown python code listening on a custom socket and that has the ability to do administrative things on the computer? I see... tell me more about this setup, please... in the interest of "science."

Submission + - Are your personal details for sale on the Dark Web? This new cybersecurity servi (ibtimes.co.uk)

drunkdrone writes: A new online service security service has launched in the UK that scans the Dark Web for stolen data and alerts users if their personal information has been leaked online.

OwlDetect trawls encrypted websites most commonly used for illegal trading for "almost any piece of personal data" that might have been leaked or stolen during a cyberattack. This includes email addresses, debit and credit cards numbers, bank details and even driving license and passport numbers.

Submission + - Eggdrop, IRC's oldest actively-developed bot, releases v1.8.0 (eggheads.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Eggdrop, IRC's oldest actively-developed bot, just culminated an extended period of development with the release of Eggdrop version 1.8.0. Eggdrop version 1.8.0 adds several major new features, most notably IPv6 support and SSL support to both IRC servers and its own bot-to-bot networks. A full overview of all the major changes can be found by browsing the current NEWS file.

For those of you not familiar with Eggdrop, it is a C program that was originally designed as an IRC channel administration bot in 1993, notably before the advent of modern channel services. The true utility of Eggdrop, however, is that the core functionality can be easily expanded on by adding Tcl scripts to the bot allowing a far-ranging feature set, ranging from displaying current weather stats via backend HTML requests, running triva games, advanced IRC bot administration, or relaying text between jabber and IRC channels- or whatever else you can think to script!

Eggdrop also has an official docker image in the docker library for download via Docker Hub.

The source for Eggdrop is maintained on GitHub. For more information on this and other Eggdrop-related news, you can check out the Eggheads website.

Comment Re:Ah the 90s. (Score 1) 228

"It was in the 80s when everyone started wetting the bed about kidnappings and child safety."

Satanists. Don't forget that Satanists were everywhere and were grabbing kids for ritualistic torture and sacrifice. Strangely, they disappeared around the time the Teletubbies became popular...

Submission + - Fedora 25 Alpha Linux distro now available (betanews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Today, Fedora 25 Alpha sees release. While the pre-release distribution is not ready for end users, it does give testers an early start at poking around.

Keep in mind what an Alpha release is folks — this is pre-Beta. In other words, it is littered with bugs, and you should definitely not run it on a production machine. There are already some show-stopping known issues — a couple are related to dual-booting with Windows (scary). One bug can destroy OS X data when dual-booting on a Mac!

Submission + - IRS doesn't tell 1 million taxpayers that illegal immigrants stole their SSNs (washingtontimes.com)

schwit1 writes: The IRS has discovered more than 1 million Americans whose Social Security numbers were stolen by illegal immigrants, but officials never bothered to tell the taxpayers themselves, the agency’s inspector general said in a withering new report released Tuesday.

Investigators first alerted the IRS to the problem five years ago, but it’s still not fixed, the inspector general said, and a pilot program meant to test a solution was canceled, and fell woefully short anyway.

As a result most taxpayers don’t learn that their identities have been stolen and their Social Security files may be screwed up.

“Taxpayers identified as victims of employment-related identity theft are not notified,” the inspector general said.

And we should put the federal government in charge of healthcare?

Submission + - Kim Dotcom extradition trial livestream

An anonymous reader writes: The trial to extradite Kim Dotcom to the US is live streaming now on youtube.

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