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Submission + - SPAM: LA Times serving cryptocurrency mining script

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:44PM

troublemaker_23 writes: The Los Angeles Times website is serving a cryptocurrency mining script which appears to have been placed there by malicious attackers, according to a well-known security expert.
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Submission + - FBI calls Apple 'jerks' and 'evil geniuses' for making iPhone cracks difficult (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:00PM

troublemaker_23 writes: A forensics expert from the FBI has lashed out at Apple, calling the company's security team a bunch of "jerks" and "evil geniuses" for making it more difficult to circumvent the encryption on its devices. Stephen Flatley told the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York on Wednesday that one example of the way that Apple had made it harder for him and his colleagues to break into the iPhone was by recently making the password guesses slower, with a change in hash iterations from 10,000 to 10,000,000.

Submission + - Handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad': OpenBSD's de Raadt (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @07:48PM

troublemaker_23 writes: Disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which affect mainly Intel CPUs, was handled "in an incredibly bad way" by both Intel and Google, the leader of the OpenBSD project Theo de Raadt claims. "Only Tier-1 companies received advance information, and that is not responsible disclosure – it is selective disclosure," De Raadt told iTWire in response to queries. "Everyone below Tier-1 has just gotten screwed."

Submission + - Linus Torvalds says Intel needs to admit it has issues with CPUs (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:57AM

troublemaker_23 writes: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has had some harsh words for Intel in the course of a discussion about patches for two bugs that were found to affect most of the company's processors. Two flaws — dubbed Meltdown and Spectre — were revealed this week in Intel processors made since 1995 and companies have been hustling to offer fixes and workarounds.

Submission + - When F00F bug hit 20 years ago, Intel reacted the same way (itwire.com) 1

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:33AM

troublemaker_23 writes: A little more than 20 years ago, Intel faced a problem with its processors, though it was not as big an issue as compared to the speculative execution bugs that were revealed this week. The 1997 bug, which came to be known as the F00F bug, allowed a malicious person to freeze up Pentium MMX and "classic" Pentium computers. Any Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX could be remotely and anonymously caused to hang, merely by sending it the byte sequence "F0 0F C7 C8".

Submission + - SUSE spreads the open source message – through videos (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:13PM

troublemaker_23 writes: German Linux company SUSE Linux is well-known for its Linux and other open source solutions. It is also known for producing videos for geeks and debuting them at its annual SUSECon conference. This year, in Prague, was no different. The company, which marked its 25th year on 2 September, came up with two videos, one to mark the occasion and the other all about Linux and open source.

Submission + - Researchers dismiss bid to cast aspersions on Marcus Hutchins (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @06:32PM

troublemaker_23 writes: A number of security researchers have dismissed an article by reporter Brian Krebs about Marcus Hutchins, the Briton who is awaiting trial in the US on charges of writing and distributing the Kronos banking malware, by pointing out that it has nothing to do with the case.

Submission + - Linux pioneer SUSE marks 25 years in the field (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:39PM

troublemaker_23 writes: The Germany-based SUSE Linux marked a milestone over the last few days: on Friday, 2 September, the company turned 25, a remarkable achievement in an industry where the remains of software companies litter the landscape around the world. There have been ups and downs over those years, but the company has been on an up ever since it was re-established as an independent business unit in Nuremberg where it began its existence.

Submission + - Researcher finds Marcus Hutchins' code that was used in malware (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:34PM

troublemaker_23 writes: A security researcher says code has been discovered that was written by British hacker Marcus Hutchins that was apparently "borrowed" by the creator of the banking trojan Kronos. The researcher, known as Hasherezade, posted a tweet identifying the code that had been taken from Hutchins' repository on GitHub.

Submission + - Man used DDoS to try and get Fairfax Media, others to remove articles (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:25PM

troublemaker_23 writes: A 32-year-old man from Seattle who was arrested for mounting a series of distributed denial of service attacks on businesses in Australia, the US and Canada, wanted articles about himself removed from various news sites, including Fairfax Media.

Comment Rebooting OpenBSD? (Score 1) 162

by troublemaker_23 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:04PM (#54760529) Attached to: OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot

Uptime is a defining characteristic of OpenBSD - Netcraft will prove this. How often are OpenBSD machines rebooted to take advantage of this feature? It would be understandable on a Windows system.

Submission + - Google may face another record EU fine, this time over Android (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:23PM

troublemaker_23 writes: The EU is contemplating another record fine against Google over how it pays and limits mobile phone providers who use the search company's Android mobile operating system and app store.

Submission + - Ubuntu Phone project failed because it was a mess: claim (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Saturday June 24, 2017 @08:29PM

troublemaker_23 writes: A developer who worked with the Ubuntu Phone project has outlined the reasons for its failure, painting a picture of confusion, poor communication and lack of technical and marketing foresight. Simon Raffeiner stopped working with the project in mid-2016, about 10 months before Canonical owner Mark Shuttleworth announced that development of the phone and the tablet were being stopped.

Submission + - British PM seeks ban on encryption after terror attack (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:07PM

troublemaker_23 writes: British Prime Minister Theresa May has used Saturday's terrorist attack to again push for a ban on encryption. May said on Sunday that Britain must take a new approach to tackling terrorism, and that this included denying terrorists and their sympathisers access to digital tools that she claimed were being used for communication and planning attacks.

Submission + - Microsoft can no longer claim to be 'proactive' after ransomware attacks (itwire.com)

Submitted by troublemaker_23 on Sunday May 14, 2017 @04:56PM

troublemaker_23 writes: Microsoft's reaction to the Windows ransomware crisis that occurred on Friday and Saturday has shown one thing: no longer can the company continue to use the business buzzword "proactive" when it talks about itself. It was caught unawares and left looking very old and tired in the way it responded to the situation.

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