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Submission + - Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by angry tapir
angry tapir writes: Processors that powered some of Sega's famous gaming consoles in the 1990s will come back to life starting later this year. The newly formed Open Core Foundation wants to reintroduce in October older CPU designs of Hitachi chips, which were used to run operating systems and gaming consoles in the 1990s. The chips were advanced for their time and could even be used today in electronics like sensor devices and do-it-yourself projects, said Shumpei Kawasaki, a member of the OCF, at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California.

Submission + - Linus Torvalds is pissed at Change.org, starts a petition (themukt.com) 1

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Linus Torvalds rarely gets upset over a wrong reason and Change.org has given him that reason. The creator of the world's most dominant technology – the linux kernel – found that someone started a petition on Change.org using his identity. So Linus took over and created a petition asking Change.org to stop its dickish ways and verify emails.

Submission + - Life beyond the WRT54G series

Submitted by jarmund
jarmund writes: I first got a WRT54GL in 2007. Now, 7 years later, it's still churning along, despite only having one of its antennae left after an encounter with a toddler. As it is simply not up to date to todays standards (802.11N for example), what is a worthy successor? I enjoyed the freedom to choose the firmware myself (I've run Tomato on it since 2008), in addition to its robustness. A replacement will be considered second-rate unless it catered for the same freedom as its predecessor.

Submission + - CryptoLocker ransomware investigation report and decryption service (fox-it.com)

Submitted by joost.bijl
joost.bijl writes: CryptoLocker ransomware investigation by FireEye and Fox-IT

FireEye and Fox-IT today announced DecryptCryptoLocker, a new service assisting victims of the CryptoLocker ransomware. Available immediately for no cost at www.decryptcryptolocker.com, the service can offer help to the users of machines whose files remain encrypted by CryptoLocker.

CryptoLocker is a type of ransomware that typically targeted small enterprises, encrypting the files of computers it infected and giving victims 72 hours to pay the ransom to receive a private key that decrypts their files. Although the Department of Justice has reported that CryptoLocker has been neutralized, many CryptoLocker victims have not been able to decrypt their files. DecryptCryptoLocker is designed to provide users with private keys to allow for the decryption of files that were encrypted by CryptoLocker.

More technical details at http://f0x.nl/1lz2YnN

Submission + - Cryptolocker victims to get files back for free (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: All 500,000 victims of Cryptolocker can now recover files encrypted by the malware without paying a ransom.

The malicious program encrypted files on Windows computers and demanded a substantial fee before handing over the key to the scrambled files.

Thanks to security experts, an online portal has been created where victims can get the key for free.

The portal was created after security researchers grabbed a copy of Cryptolocker's database of victims.

"This time we basically got lucky," said Michael Sandee, principal analyst at Fox-IT — one of the security firms which helped tackle the cyber-crime group behind Cryptolocker.

Submission + - Justin.tv Shuts Down Amid Reports Google Is Acquiring Twitch

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service. A very simple explanation is given for the shutdown: since rebranding the company to Twitch Interactive in February 2014, all resources are now focused on Twitch.tv. The news today will almost certainly further fuel the rumors that Google is acquiring, or has already acquired, Twitch. Purchases are often followed by consolidation, as well as cutting off any excess limbs.

Submission + - PayPal's two-factor authentication can be bypassed easily, researcher says (techienews.co.uk)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: PayPal’s two-factor authentication can easily be defeated and account accessed without requiring an elaborate set of steps, a security researcher has claimed while publicly disclosing the vulnerability as PayPal has failed to resolve the issue for two months now. Joshua Rogers, an Australian security researcher, discovered the vulnerability on June 5 and reported it to PayPal the same day. However, according to Rogers, PayPal hasn’t patched the vulnerability even after two months and he is disclosing the loop-hole publicly “due to the simplicity of it” and because he believes he gave “Paypal long enough to fix it.”

Submission + - Good technology conference to attend?

Submitted by SSG Booraem
SSG Booraem writes: I've recently been hired to a IT supervisor position at a local college. My boss wants me to find some technology conferences that I'd like to attend and submit them to her. Since I've worked in IT for 18 years but usually done scut work, I don't have any ideas. I'd appreciate suggestions with personal experiences.

Submission + - Multipath TCP Introduces Security Blind Spot (threatpost.com)

Submitted by msm1267
msm1267 writes: If multipath TCP is the next big thing to bring resilience and efficiency to networking, then there are some serious security issues to address before it goes mainstream. An expert at next week's Black Hat conference is expected to explain how the TCP extension exposes leaves network security gear blind to traffic moving over multiple network streams. Today's IDS and IPS, for example, cannot correlate and re-assemble traffic as it's split over multiple paths. While such attacks are not entirely practical today, as multipath TCP becomes a fixture on popular networking gear and mobile devices, the risks will escalate.

“[Multipath TCP] solves big problems we have today in an elegant fashion,” said Catherine Pearce, security consultant and one of the presenters, along with Patrick Thomas. “You don’t have to replace hardware or software; it handles all that stuff behind the scenes. But security tools are naïve [to MPTCP], and make assumptions that are no longer valid that were valid in the past.”

Submission + - Minnesota Man 3D Prints Life Size Concrete Castle (3dprint.com)

Submitted by Bob768
Bob768 writes: A man named Andrey Rudenko has begun 3D printing a life size castle in his back yard in Minnesota out of concrete. He developed the 3D printer himself and has ultimate plans of constructing a normal house to live in.

“While other teams are also working on respectable projects in 3D printing construction technology, I have developed a product that is ready for actual-size construction rather than miniature prototypes,” Rudenko told 3DPrint.com.

Images of the castle can be found here.

Comment Re:video quality (Score 1) 24

The source video is better quality, but the embedded video widget defaults to a lower quality transcoding for streaming (if you click the "webm 360p" box, you can switch to the original video).

Encoding with libvpx also seems to be kind of tricky and at least I've had trouble with getting block-free VP8 files even at a high bitrate (hey Monthy, hurry up and finish Daala ;) ).

Comment Re:MyTouch 4G Slidw (Score 2) 544

I have one of those too, but, blech, the keyboard went on the fritz pretty quickly and T-Mo refused warranty service >:O. The keyboard was also not nearly as nice as the G1's, and the hinge is kind of loose... whereas my G1's weird hinge was crisp until the bitter end. At least it has a great camera (kind of amazed at the video quality) and isn't too slow I guess.

As a result, I'm kind of back to not really using my phone. I guess I'm weird, using ssh and doing a bit of remote system administration on a phone (pretty liberating -- no need to carry around a laptop bag Just in Case (tm) some minor issue that could be resolved with a few quick commands crops up).

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