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by ccnafr 8y ago
Leave it to Goodin to overyhype a non-practical attack. I wish this guy would retire. He's brought that overhyping clickbait style of reporting from the register to ars technica and I can't stand it anymore. Rowhammer has been aro
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Nothing says transparency like dumping a condemning press release before a national holiday
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Chairman Pai Proposal to Target Unwanted Robocalls and Spam Robotexts(fcc.gov)
4 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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Offensive testing to make Dropbox (and the world) a safer place(blogs.dropbox.com)
15 points by ccnafr 8y ago|2 comments
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Sophos blog spam for actual ZDNet report from over the weekend: https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-dark-web-hosting-provi... Maybe a mod can replace the link with the actual source.
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Leave it to The Register to clickbait the research. This is nothing new btw. Side-channel attacks on other tabs have been known for more than a decade, and is one of the legitimate reasons why the NoScript plugin was developed, among others
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by ccnafr 8y ago
lol... you mean never enable auto-translate. If you use a similar plugin with Firefox, it's the same exact thing.
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Not true. The linked government page says they're "thinking about it and taking suggestions" A decision has not been taken. They're still taking suggestions until Nov 20.
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Cryptocurrency Trader Gets 15 Months of Jail for Stealing Bitcoin, Litecoin(news.softpedia.com)
2 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Web Services in Plain English(expeditedssl.com)
483 points by ccnafr 8y ago|105 comments
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BlackBerry to buy cybersecurity firm Cylance for $1.4B(reuters.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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Connected Wristwatch Allows Hackers to Stalk, Spy on Children(threatpost.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccnafr 8y ago
"several vulnerabilities have already been demonstrated" Nothing in this paper is new, except a few tweaks here and there. This is worrisome. More and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, addin
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Source, with actual details: https://www.imperva.com/blog/facebook-privacy-bug/
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Why Microsoft, Tencent and Intel are growing cucumbers in autonomous greenhouses(venturebeat.com)
4 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccnafr 8y ago
He believes the company is doing it on purpose to rank better for "cloud" -related SERPs
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Nigerian ISP: Google BGP hijack was “an error” due to “misconfiguration”(twitter.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Ugh... that headline is abysmal. It's just a BGP hijack. Get over it.
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How About a Free Market for Wages?(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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Cookbooks, Wikipedia, and auto-generated Spanglish(technologyreview.com)
2 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccnafr 8y ago
That's exactly what he's saying.
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Microsoft aims to bring internet to rural Montana(eu.greatfallstribune.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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Vine’s successor Byte launches next spring(theverge.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|1 comments
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Research: Formatting the “expiration date” field on online stores(baymard.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)(youtube.com)
1 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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EU Court rules that Hungary's state monopoly over mobile payments is illegal(reuters.com)
5 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Voter records are public. Even the absentee lists are made public 1-2 day after the vote. They'll be doxxed regardless.
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by ccnafr 8y ago
This looks like pure legacy code and not actually a bug...
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by ccnafr 8y ago
Just throwing it out there - the researcher said "he strongly suspects that AMD CPUs are also impacted."
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Another day, another update, another iPhone lockscreen bypass(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by ccnafr 8y ago|0 comments

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