175202683
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Bismillah writes:
Python New Zealand has gone through some rough times lately, with its then-treasurer stealing money from the society.
Things were looking really serious for a while, with Python NZ looking at being liquidated due to the theft of funds.
However, there is a silver lining to the story, as the free and open source movement rallied behind Python NZ and got them out of a serious pickle.
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Bismillah writes:
Work is afoot to fix up 1980s design "mistakes" for IPv4, which could potentially free up another 419 million addresses for use..
Some software changes needed for this to happen, but will it be practical to implement Seth Schoen's suggestions?
162336298
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Bismillah writes:
Single wavelength, single fibre pair GPON upgrade planned that will run over the wholesale Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) network that's part government-funded.
136281628
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Bismillah writes:
A software engineer in Melbourne is whiling away the city’s lockdown by creating a tool that DOS users so far have lacked: an integrated Linux environment similar to what Windows 10 users enjoy.
106900040
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Bismillah writes:
Researchers have published the results of exploring how vulnerable Thunderbolt is to DMA attacks, and the answer is "very". Be careful what you plug into that USB-C port. Yes, the set of vulnerabilities has a name: Thunderclap.
106088922
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Bismillah writes:
As an illustration of the dangers of giving governments backdoors into systems and networks, Russia's government reusing the mandatory remote access credentials for business IT systems in the country is hard to beat. Researchers found the reused creds on thousands of open MongoDB instances in Russia but it took three and a half years to fix the problem.
103815619
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Bismillah writes:
China Telecom is up to no good with BGP shenanigans researchers have discovered.. The state-owned telco is hijacking and rerouting internet traffic to China via it's US and Canadian PoPs.
102563996
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Bismillah writes:
Last week, officials from the Five-Eyes countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand) issued a statement saying tech providers will have to come up with a way to provide lawful access to encrypted data, or else. How tech companies do it is up to them, but they will have to do it. Plus, uploads of illicit content must be prevented. If it can't be prevented, providers have to take such content with all haste.
102011064
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Bismillah writes:
Hashcat developers tried to poke holes in WPA3 and found a way to attack WPA/WPA2 instead.
95734965
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Bismillah writes:
School admins are reporting that thousands of managed Chromebooks have suddenly forgotten their WiFi passwords and SSIDs, and can't connect to networks. The cause of the problem is unclear, but it may be related to an earlier Google service outage.
90297137
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Bismillah writes:
Researchers at NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and Estonia's University of Tallinn have worked out how to set up communications channels using IPv6 transition mechanisms, to exfiltrate data and for systems control over IPv4-only and dual-stack networks — without being spotted by network intrusion detection systems.
88916653
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Bismillah writes:
A seven-year study has found a correlation between increased internet activity per capita, and gross domestic product. And, the study mapped changing sleep patterns around the world as well.
80849633
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Bismillah writes:
Westfield's Scentre Group has removed SMS notifications for its ticketless parking system after it was discovered they could be used to track other people's cars unnoticed. The system allows you to enter any licence plate, which in turn will be scanned upon entry and exit at mall parking facilities — and when the free parking time is up, a notification message is sent to the mobile phone number entered, with the exact location of the car.
80657967
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Bismillah writes:
The recent 13-microsecond timing anomaly was caused by a satellite failure triggering a "software issue", the USAF 50th Space Wing has confirmed. Such an error is large enough to cause navigation errors of up to 4 km. Luckily, no issues with GPS guided munition were reported.
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