When the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump asked Russia — wittingly or otherwise — to launch hack attacks to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, it caused a stir of commotion. Russia is allegedly behind DNC’s leaked emails. But The Washington Post is reminding us that U.S.’s efforts in the cyber-security world aren’t much different. (could […]
Month: July 2016
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko and his wife, Sarah, a former NSA mathematician, have started a nonprofit in the basement of their home “for testing and scoring the security of software… He says vendors are going to hate it.” Slashdot reader mspohr shares an article from The Intercept: “Things like address space layout randomization [ASLR] and having […]
An anonymous reader write: Russian government bodies have been hit by a “professional” cyber attack, according to the country’s intelligence service, which said the attack targeted state organizations and defense companies, as well as Russia’s “critically important infrastructures”. The agency told the BBC that the powerful malware “allowed those responsible to switch on cameras and […]
GIMP 2.9.4 was released earlier this month, featuring “symmetry painting” and the ability to remove holes when selecting a region, as well as improvements to many of its other graphics-editing tools. But today core developer Jehan Pages discussed the vision for GIMP’s future, writing that the Generic Graphics (GEGL) programming library “is a hell of […]
Babylon 5 Actor Jerry Doyle Dies
Slashdot reader tiqui writes: Jerry Doyle, best known for playing Security Chief Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5 has passed away in Las Vegas at only 60 years of age. His B5 character was often paired-up with G’Kar (played by Andreas Katsulas who died in 2006 at age 59) and with Jeffrey Sinclair (played by Michael […]
Slashdot reader Paul Fernhout writes: FarmBot is an open-source gantry-crane-style outdoor robot for tending a garden bed. The project is crowdfunding a first production run and has raised US$561,486 of their US$100,000 goal — with one day left to go… The onboard control system is based around a Raspberry Pi 3 computer and an Arduino […]
Here’s the thing about those wi-fi kiosks replacing New York City’s public payphones. They’re owned by Google/Alphabet company Sidewalk Labs, they’re covered with ads, and if you read the privacy policy on its web site, “it’s not that one.” An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes an article from the Observer: Columbia professor Benjamin Read got a […]
eWeek reports that “hundreds of millions of users remain at risk” one year after Joshua Drake discovered the Stagefright Android flaw. Slashdot reader darthcamaro writes: A year ago, on July 27, 2015 news about the Android Stagefright flaw was first revealed with the initial reports claiming widespread impact with a billion users at risk. As […]
Slashdot reader Noryungi writes: Qubes OS certainly has an intriguing approach to security, but a newly discovered Xen vulnerability allows a hacker to escape a VM and own the host. If you are running Qubes, make sure you update the dom0 operating system to the latest version. “A malicious, paravirtualized guest administrator can raise their […]
Ransomware is “generating huge profits,” says Cisco. Slashdot reader coondoggie shares this report from Network World: Enterprise-targeting cyber enemies are deploying vast amounts of potent ransomware to generate revenue and huge profits — nearly $34 million annually, according to Cisco’s Mid-Year Cybersecurity Report out this week. Ransomware, Cisco wrote, has become a particularly effective moneymaker, […]