87841131
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Gumbercules!! writes:
Yesterday, a new in-development ransomware was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam called Popcorn Time (unrelated to the streaming service of the same name) that intends to give victim's a very unusual, and criminal, way of getting a free decryption key for their files. With Popcorn Time, not only can a victim pay a ransom to get their files back, but they can also try to infect two other people and have them pay the ransom in order to get a free key. Infected victims are given a "referral code" and if two people are infected by that code and pay up — the original victim is given their decryption key (potentially).
86334351
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Gumbercules!! writes:
After the massive 600mbps DDOS on http://krebsonsecurity.com/ last week that forced Akamai to withdraw the (pro-bono) DDOS protection they offered the site, krebsonsecurity.com is now back online, hosted by Google.
Following Brian Krebs breaking an article on vDOS (https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/09/08/2050238/israeli-ddos-provider-vdos-earned-600000-in-two-years), leading to the arrest of the two founders, his site was hit with a record breaking DDOS. It will certainly be an interesting test of Google's ability to provide DDOS protection to clients.
78677029
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Gumbercules!! writes:
A small Australian ISP has received a demand that it block access to an overseas website or face legal action in the Federal Court, in a case in which a building company is demanding the ISP block access to an overseas site with a similar name. This case is being seen as a test case, potentially opening the way for companies and aggregated customers to use the new anti-piracy laws to block access to companies or their competition. The ISP in question has obviously been selected because they're very small and have limited financial capacity to fight a legal case.
46450237
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Gumbercules!! writes:
While many smartphone users are still on 3G and are still waiting for 4G to be available, Samsung is now testing 5G networks, capable of getting speeds up to 1gbps. Obviously, we're years away from seeing these in the wild but it's still an amazing improvement over what many people are experiencing now. Even 4G networks tend to max out around 30mbps (with a theoretical maximum of about 75mbps).
What do you think the key uses for these kinds of speed would be, in a hand held device?
38677147
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Gumbercules!! writes:
Eric Schmidt said he believes there is a “Gang of Four” technology platform leaders — Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook — Microsoft isn't one of them. Here's an article I wrote about why I believe he's wrong and what it might say about Google's weaknesses.
