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Submission + - Kingston and PNY caught bait-and-switching cheaper components after good reviews

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: Over the past few months, we’ve seen a disturbing trend from first Kingston, and now PNY. Manufacturers are launching SSDs with one hardware specification, and then quietly changing the hardware configuration after reviews have gone out. The impacts have been somewhat different (more on that) but in both cases, unhappy customers are loudly complaining that they’ve been cheated, tricked into paying for a drive they otherwise wouldn’t have purchased.

Submission + - Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @12:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: Since the announcement, there has been buzz around the underground and malicious actors have been actively leaking software library data and using one of the several provided PoC code to attack the massive amount of services available on the internet. One of the more complicated issues is that the OpenSSL patches were not in-line with the upstream of large Linux flavors. We have had a opportunity to review the behavior of the exploit and have come up with the following IDS signatures to be deployed for detection.

Submission + - 250K Bitcion transaction

Submitted by saidi on Saturday November 23, 2013 @02:47PM

saidi writes: WashingtonPost report that yesterday a truly massive Bitcoin transaction has occurred, from the articale: "In this particular transaction, bitcoins from 15 different Bitcoin addresses were consolidated and sent to address 12sENwECeRSmTeDwyLNqwh47JistZqFmW8. The size of the transaction? 194,993 bitcoins. Given that one bitcoin is worth around $800 right now, the transaction is valued at more than $150 million."

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