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Submission + - Analysis of Linux backdoor used in freenode hack

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @08:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: A detailed analysis has been done of the Linux backdoor used in the freenode hack. It employed port knocking and crypto to provide security of the backdoor against others using it.. This seems a little more sophisticated than your average jane hacker.. Criminal? Government?

Submission + - Windows Flaw Allowed Hackers to Spy On NATO, Ukraine, Others (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @12:43AM

An anonymous reader writes: Reuters reports that a cybersecurity firm has found evidence that a bug in Microsoft's Windows operating system has allowed hackers located in Russia to spy on computers used by NATO, Ukraine, the European Union, and others for the past five years. Before disclosing the flaw, the firm alerted Microsoft, who plans to roll out a fix on Tuesday. "While technical indicators do not indicate whether the hackers have ties to the Russian government, Hulquist said he believed they were supported by a nation state because they were engaging in espionage, not cyber crime. For example, in December 2013, NATO was targeted with a malicious document on European diplomacy. Several regional governments in the Ukraine and an academic working on Russian issues in the United States were sent tainted emails that claimed to contain a list of pro-Russian extremist activities, according to iSight."

Comment Delayed April Fools? (Score 1) 566

by bmurray7 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @06:03PM (#47113793) Attached to: TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker

I hope so

Submission + - TrueCrypt to go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @11:30AM

An anonymous reader writes: After all the revelations about NSA’s spying efforts, and especially after the disclosure of details about its Bullrun program aimed at subverting encryption standards and efforts around the world, the question has been raised of whether any encryption software can be trusted. Security experts have repeatedly said that it you want to trust this type of software, your best bet is to choose software that is open source. But, in order to be entirely sure, a security audit of the code by independent experts sounds like a definitive answer to that issue.

And that it exactly what Matthew Green, cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Kenneth White, co-founder of hosted healthcare services provider BAO Systems, have set out to do. The software that will be audited is the famous file and disk encryption software package TrueCrypt. Green and White have started fundraising at FundFill and IndieGoGo, and have so far raised over $50,000 in total.

Comment Re:Active fucking X?! (Score 1) 218

by bmurray7 on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @07:07PM (#45340761) Attached to: Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea.

You can run 3D game engines completely in JavaScript

Unless the installed browser blocks WebGL due to "unresolved driver issues" (such as Firefox on Ubuntu on an Atom N450 according to about:support). Or unless the installed browser doesn't implement WebGL at all (such as IE on XP or Vista, or Safari and Safari wrappers on iOS).

You can run 3D game engines in JavaScript without WebGL. It might be slow, but that doesn't JavaScript isn't Turing complete.

Submission + - Internet Explorer Still Dominant in South Korea. (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by bmurray7 on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @09:48AM

bmurray7 writes: You might think that the country that has the fastest average home internet speeds would be a first adapter of modern browsers. Instead, as the Washington Post reports, a payment processing security standard forces most South Korean's to rely upon Internet Explorer for online shopping. Since the standard uses a unique encryption algorithm, an ActiveX control is required to complete online purchase. As a result, many internet users are in the habit of approving all AtivceX control prompts, potentially exposing them to malware.

Comment Eclipse 3.3 was pretty good (Score 1) 140

by bmurray7 on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:07PM (#45263873) Attached to: Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On?

My first thought after reading the headline was about the Java IDE, not the Jovian satellite.

Comment No Equations (Score 1) 95

by bmurray7 on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @05:29AM (#44932279) Attached to: Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics

The obvious giveaway is the lack equations. Regardless of how aloof the reviewers are to pop culture references, the lack of equations should have forewarned a lack of solid results.

Submission + - Source code for Photoshop 1.0 (computerhistory.org)

Submitted by

gbooch

on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:39PM

gbooch writes: "With the permission of Adobe Systems, the Computer History Museum has made available the source code for Photoshop version 1.0.1, comprising about 128,000 lines code within 179 files, most of which is in Pascal, the remainder in 68000 assembly language.

This the kind of code I aspire to write.

The Computer History Museum has earlier made available the source code to MacPaint (which you'll find here http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/)."

Submission + - Ask slashdot: spreadsheet with decent programming language?

Submitted by

slartibartfastatp

on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @02:53PM

slartibartfastatp writes: "Spreadsheets are very flexible tools for data analysis and transformations, the obvious options being MS Excel and LibreOffice. However, I found increasingly infuriating to deal with the VBA--dialect functions or (even worse) its translated versions. Is there any spreadsheet that allows usage of a decent programming language in its formulae? I found PySpread intriguing, but still very beta (judging from its latest release version 0.2.3). Perl or even javascript would be better options than =AVERAGE(). The slashdot community knows any viable alternatives ?"

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