Category: Security & Privacy
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Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1
A bug in VMWare’s vprintproxy.exe process allows the guest OS to escape it’s environment through the COM1 serial port. via: Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1
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Who Has Your Back?
Who has your back? Electronic Frontier Foundation updated their scorecard of practices of major Internet companies, with regards to their publicly available policies for 2015. via: Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2015 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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49 suspected members of cybercriminal group arrested in Europe
Don’t really want to have a category called “cyber”, but some of the headlines ask for it. The arrested persons are suspected of committing financial fraud through email scamming. That qualifies as “cyber”. via: 49 suspected members of cybercriminal group arrested in Europe
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Kaspersky findet Super-Malware #duqu2
Kaspersky hat eine neue “Super Malware” gefunden. Die schlechte Nachricht: bei sich selbst. Quelle: SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud?
Recommendation: Bruce Schneier on Cloud(1) Computing(2).
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Die Sache mit den Daten in der Cloud
Warum Daten in der Cloud nicht sicher sind: pic.twitter.com/T6kdkZdYwf — Jan (@kaltfront) June 6, 2015
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Convenience Containers
Containers, in particular represented through the hype around Docker, get a greater share of attention of the IT world for the past year or two. And it happens for good reason. Just like other virtualization techniques, containers allow for easier deployment, for better maintainability, for improved management of applications, for better hardware utilization and for…
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4096 RSA factorized.
Somebody claims to have factorized Peter Anvins gpg/RSA key.
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Eighth Movie Plot Threat Contest
Bruce Schneier announced semi finalists in the eighth movie plot threat contest, that was started April 1st 2015.
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Venom PoC is out.
Quick: https://twitter.com/hdmoore/status/598644158664814592