Comment Re:RIP Drupal (Score 1) 46
Our web shop has completely ceased using drupal for new websites now; we've tried drupal 8 and it simply doesn't fit the needs for our customers. Our upgrade path will be to Backdrop
Comment Re:Dialog's Production Line Tool failed. (Score 1) 252
A cautionary tale I think about relying too much on a single proprietary technology or ecosystem. When that technology is inevitably retired, the dependent system is then in jeopardy.
Swedish Rail Firm Approves Trainy McTrainface As Name Following Online Poll (theguardian.com) 88
Those disappointed when Britain rejected the name Boaty McBoatface for a polar research ship should find joy in the name of a new train in Sweden. After a public vote, a Swedish rail operator has vowed to name one of its trains Trainy McTrainface. The Guardian reports: Trainy McTrainface won 49% of the votes in the naming competition, conducted online by train operator MTR Express and Swedish newspaper Metro, beating choices such as Hakan, Miriam and Poseidon. The train will run between the Swedish capital Stockholm and Gothenburg, the country's second-biggest city. MTR said another train had been voted to be named "Glenn," an apparent tribute to an IFK Gothenburg soccer team of the 1980s that featured four players of that name -- uncommon in Sweden -- including Glenn Hysen, who later captained Liverpool.
Comment I'm very surprised (Score 1) 277
I'm very surprised that no one has yet mentioned a site like Imgur as an alternative.
Comment I didn't even know such a place existed (Score 1) 200
Hadn't a clue it was even a thing. Would have hopped along if I was aware of it.
Comment Re:Good on France (Score 1) 671
In that case I stand corrected
Comment Re:Good on France (Score 1) 671
The IRA, UDA and other splinter groups from the Northern Irish troubles are excellent examples of Christian extremists.
Submission + - Leaked NSA hacking tools will be weaponized for years to come (cyberscoop.com)
Patrick O'Neill writes: Over 200,000 machines have been infected with NSA tools leaked by the ShadowBrokers. Security researchers, seeing as many as 25,000 new infections per day, say the “reliable and easy to use” tools will be workable in the wild for the next decade. There's precedent to back this up: The most exploited vulnerability in both 2015 and 2016 was the software flaw, first discovered in 2010, that allowed the famous Stuxnet virus to spread.
Submission + - Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate announced (devuan.org)
jaromil writes: Devuan 1.0.0-RC is announced, following its beta 2 release last year. The Debian fork that spawned over systemd controversy is reaching stability and plans long term support. Devuan deploys an innovative continuous integration setup: with fallback on Debian packages, it overlays its own modifications and then uses the merged source repository to ship images for 11 ARM targets, a desktop and a minimal live, vagrant and qemu virtual machines and the classic installer isos. The release announcements contains several links to project that have already adopted this distribution as a base OS.
Submission + - Alleged proprietors of "DDOS for hire" service vDOS arrested
pdclarry writes: Brian Krebs reports that the two youthful (18 YO) alleged proprietors of vDOS, the DDOS service that was reported in Slashdot September 9, have been arrested in Israel on a complaint from the FBI. They have been released on $10,000 bond each, their passports lifted, and they have been placed under house arrest, and banned from using the Internet for 30 days. They were probably identified through a massive hack of the vDOS database recently.
Krebs also reports that vDOS's DNS addresses were hijacked by the firm BankConnect Security to get out from under a sustained DDOS attack, and that his site, krebsonsecurity.com has been under a sustained DDOS attack since his last article was published, with the packets containing the string "godiefaggot". Those attacks continue, but, as he has been the target of many DDOS attacks in the past, he covered by a DDOS protection firm.
Krebs also reports that vDOS's DNS addresses were hijacked by the firm BankConnect Security to get out from under a sustained DDOS attack, and that his site, krebsonsecurity.com has been under a sustained DDOS attack since his last article was published, with the packets containing the string "godiefaggot". Those attacks continue, but, as he has been the target of many DDOS attacks in the past, he covered by a DDOS protection firm.
Submission + - Chrome to Begin Labeling HTTP Sites Insecure (threatpost.com)
msm1267 writes: Chrome users who navigate to some HTTP sites will be notified, starting in January, they’re on a site that isn’t secure.
Google said today the browser will begin explicitly labeling HTTP connections that feature either a password or credit card form as insecure. The company said the plan is its first step toward marking all HTTP sites as such, though it didn’t provide a timetable for the undertaking.
Google said the move will improve on the browser’s current iteration of a warning, which indicates HTTP connections with a neutral indicator. Eventually, Google plans to mark all HTTP pages as non-secure and use the same red triangle it currently uses for broken HTTPS sites.
Google said today the browser will begin explicitly labeling HTTP connections that feature either a password or credit card form as insecure. The company said the plan is its first step toward marking all HTTP sites as such, though it didn’t provide a timetable for the undertaking.
Google said the move will improve on the browser’s current iteration of a warning, which indicates HTTP connections with a neutral indicator. Eventually, Google plans to mark all HTTP pages as non-secure and use the same red triangle it currently uses for broken HTTPS sites.
Submission + - Norwegian Oil Fund Asked to Consdier if Facebook is Unetical 2
polemistes writes: During the last few weeks there has been an uproar (this is in English) in Norwegian media about Facebook censorship. It started with writer Tom Egeland posting the iconic 1972 photo of Kim Phuc, running from a napalm bomb. Facebook decided that the nudity in the photo could be offensive, so they deleted it. When Egeland posted to criticise the censorship, the whole post was deleted. A major internet news site wrote about it, and the editor shared his article on Facebook, and was blocked for 24 hours. Now the Norwegian Press Association has asked the ethics committee of the Norwegain Oil Fund, who has invested about $1.6 billion in Facebook, to consider whether Facebook is acting unethically. If they are found to do so, the fund will have to withdraw their investments, because its strict ethical code. As a side-note:The google-translated article also censors the photo.
Submission + - The Darker Side of Encryption (cso.com.au)
River Tam writes: If every exchange or communication of data on the web was encrypted, would it make our virtual world a more secure place in Australia? A report by PwC found Australia had the highest number of cyber security incidents in the previous 12 months amounting to 9434, more than double the previous year.
Submission + - Could Less Gassy Livestock Be a Cash Cow? (bloomberg.com)
schwit1 writes: The hamburgers and cheese that come from U.S. cattle may be favorite fare at many summer cookouts, but the methane the same cows produce is significantly less appetizing.
That's especially the case for sustainable investors looking for a low-emission place to park their cash. "Enteric fermentation," or livestock's digestive process, accounts for 22 percent of all U.S. methane emissions, and the manure they produce makes up 8 percent more, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Adding some Beano to their diet won't cut it?
That's especially the case for sustainable investors looking for a low-emission place to park their cash. "Enteric fermentation," or livestock's digestive process, accounts for 22 percent of all U.S. methane emissions, and the manure they produce makes up 8 percent more, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Adding some Beano to their diet won't cut it?
Submission + - Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores in U.S., Canada (krebsonsecurity.com)
alir1272 writes: Clothing store chain Eddie Bauer said today it has detected and removed malicious software from point-of-sale systems at all of its 350+ stores in North America, and that credit and debit cards used at those stores during the first six months of 2016 may have been compromised in the breach. The acknowledgement comes nearly six weeks after KrebsOnSecurity first notified the clothier about a possible intrusion at stores nationwide.
