http://arstechnica.com/security/2015...h-of-internet/
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http://arstechnica.com/security/2016...e-hack-attack/
Whodunnit?
Who's gonna get the blame?
What will be the response?
Germans spy on US congressman:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016...-phone-number/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016...16s-sneakiest/
I wonder if it's Sweden and if I can flee to the UK before the Russians attack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.3faed47bf29c
Not sure what worries me more, the exploit or the increasingly warlike discourse.
Ultimately these kinds of systems need to be hardened, no news there. And security engineering should be a component of all Internet-connected products.
On the flip side, a downed tree shut-down a huge part of our electrical grid in 2003. As long as we're always learning...
EDIT: Sometimes I wish this was a thread where we pour our our emotional vulnerabilities.
This is scarier than most of the other stories in this thread:
https://arstechnica.com/security/201...und-the-globe/
There have been a lot of troubling news lately when it comes to IT security. This one was particularly worrying:
https://arstechnica.com/security/201...-much-nastier/
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/flaw-m...ant-fully-fix/
Also:
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/common...orly-insecure/
SHA-1 has been known to be insecure since approximately the time of Christ. This may be the first practical attack on it, but the recommendation has been to not use it for a long time now. So, hardly a crisis.
No mention of cloudbleed, really?
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-...detail?id=1139
http://gizmodo.com/everything-you-ne...tes-1792710616
Also, list of affected sites:
https://github.com/pirate/sites-usin...ster/README.md
So... thoughts on the CIA after today's wikileaks release?
I don't dare say anything :o
http://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-acc...-ne-1796211612
Quote:
“I can think of no avenues for punishing political data breaches or otherwise properly aligning the incentives. I worry that if there’s no way to punish campaigns for leaking this stuff, it’s going to continue to happen until something bad happens,” Hall said. The data left behind by campaigns can pose a lingering security issue, he added. “None of these motherfuckers were ever Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, they don’t pack out what they pack in.”
Clearly Samaritan is testing our defenses:
https://arstechnica.com/security/201...ers-worldwide/
Person of Interest reference?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-...57973?mod=e2fb
I'm honestly surprised they weren't entrusting one of the core functions of a democracy to Windows ME.
I did a summer course once at a nuclear power plant, which was relatively old. They specifically did not upgrade it to computer controlled because of that, and mentioned that at that time almost no new plants were computer controlled.
The grid itself I don't know how they control it.
https://arstechnica.com/information-...-impact-sites/
*goes underground *
WPA2 Cracked! Update your router firmware.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/a...-people-s-data
57m customers' and 600k drivers' data stolen from uber by hackers. Company essentially kept it under wraps for a year.
Uber are trash.