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Category: Security & Privacy

  • Project Zero looks at Kaspersky.

    Google’s “Project Zero” took a look at Kaspersky’s products. The result is unpleasant, if not to say devastating. The closing statement is a constructive mention towards Antivirus products. In future, we would like to see antivirus unpackers, emulators and parsers sandboxed, not run with SYSTEM privileges.

  • $AKAM releases Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report 

    Akamai has released the Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report. This quarter’s report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape, can be downloaded here. via: Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report Released – The Akamai Blog

  • AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked

    AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked by DetoxRansome; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted via: AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted

  • Bug of the day: MongoDB

    Trevor Morgen points out the most creative bug so far in MongoDB. Not sure if this is a bug or pure stupid, though, and let’s fear for more issues of this kind in the codebase.

  • Facebooks To Kill Flash

    Facebook’s new chief security officer, Alex Stamos, has stated publicly that he wants to see Adobe end Flash. Most of the internet will consider this a good idea. Not too sure about the Facebook bunch yet. via: Slashdot

  • New and hot: #OpenSSL memes

  • Software sucks. Says @zeynep

    “Why the Great Glitch of July 8th Should Scare You.”  When United had to ground its fleet, the NYSE and WSJ were down. Because of software.

  • Research to ensure A.I. doesn’t turn out evil

    Yep, right. People are researching AI, but those that won’t kill you later on. a $7 million research grant, funded in part by Elon Musk, will go to 37 projects devoted to ensuring that artificial intelligence doesn’t turn out evil. Quelle: These are the research projects Elon Musk is funding to ensure A.I. doesn’t turn…

  • Politik: Wir und die anderen. #VDS

    Das ist sicher nicht so gemeint von der Politik, das gibt sicher einen vollkommen nachvollziehbaren Grund. https://twitter.com/MarianSteinbach/status/612326357339652096 via: Schlecky Silberstein

  • Sascha Lobo zersägt einen Tweet zur #vds

    Sascha Lobo äußert sich ausführlich zu dem Tweet des Baden-Württembergischen  SPD Innenminister Reinhold Gall.