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Category: Security & Privacy

  • Security Planner – Improve your online safety with tools for your needs.

    The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security. released “Security Planner” early last week. Security Planner is a tool that will guide…

  • Offenbar ist der Grund für den gestrigen und heutigen Ausfall der Telekom: ein bekannter Bug in TR069. Es gibt offenbar auch ein Metasploit Modul dafür. Source: Port 7547 SOAP Remote Code Execution Attack Against DSL Modems – SANS Internet Storm Center

  • The code I’m still ashamed of

    The following came through my timelines a few days back. A guy feels guilty for what he did – as a programmer – when he was young. Basically he built a promotional website for a questionable medicaments. Apparently the drug has side effects of depression and suicidal thoughts. Only after his sister was prescribed the same medicaments,…

  • Symantec will Sicherheitsanbieter Lifelock übernehmen

    Digitalisierung verlagert vieles Alltägliche ins Internet, und die Unsicherheit um den Umgang mit dieser neuen Situation wird von Sicherheitsfirmen schon lange ausgenutzt. Nun will Symantec offenbar Schutz vor Identitätsdiebstahl anbieten und dazu einen umstrittenen Anbieter übernehmen: 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar will Symantec zahlen, um sich mit einem Anbieter für Schutz vor Identitätsdiebstahl zu verstärken. Die Firma…

  • Give us your password

    Give us your password and we tell you how strong it is. Yes. Really.

  • John Oliver talks about Encryption

    John Olivers ‘Last Week Tonight’ on encryption in general and the the case Apple vs. FBI in particular.

  • Fake Bomb Threat for Bitcoin

    Old and busted: DDoS 4 Bitcoin New hotness: Fake Bomb Threat 4 Bitcoin

  • Smart TV Security

    So, this is the future of security with smart devices. Samsung has confirmed that its “smart TV” sets are listening to customers’ every word, and the company is warning customers not to speak about personal information while near the TV sets. The company revealed that the voice activation feature on its smart TVs will capture all nearby conversations.…

  • Internet Archive: The Malware Museum

     The Internet Archive now has a collection of malware that was distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers and early PCs. Through the javascript post of DosBox (EM-DosBox) you can even execute the viruses and watch their message in your browser. via: The Malware Museum : Internet Archive

  • Docker 1.10

    Docker announced version 1.10 past week. The new release contains more than 100 improvements over the previous version. New features include better resource management, a more flexible docker-compose file format and improvements to security. These are in particular through user namespace isolation, implementation of seccomp for syscall filtering and an authorization plugin to restrict access…