fab23 writes:The publication of Top Zeus Botnet Suspect "Tank" Arrested in Geneva from Brian Krebs as usual gives some insight of the inner working of such "organizations":
fab23 writes:Last week Bruce Schneier published An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers and now Ian Carroll has published Security concerns with the e-Tugra certificate authority.Ian is best known for the death of the EV (Extended Validation) certificates. He legally registered a colliding entity name and then got an EV certificate for his site stripe.ian.sh. As this site is not online any more, a good write up of this is Extended Validation Certificates are (Really, Really) Dead by Troy Hunt.Troy Hunt is also known for his website ';--have i been pwned?.Schneier suggests that it might be time to disable / remove trust for the following Certificate Authorities (CAs):
So, to say the last week has been a dumpster fire is drastically underselling what I've been through. This, combined with having to put things in place to migrate off Twitter, and otherwise deal with all the fallout of that hot mess has, to put it frankly, put free time at something of a premium, hence why this post took so long. For those who missed it, I did fairly long overhaul of our backend, upgrading boxes from Ubuntu 14.04, and rebuilding and replacing others.At the moment, the site is mostly working, with two exceptions, site search is still down, and IRC is still down. Deucalion has taken up the task of rebuilding the IRCd on modern server software, so it's time to lay down the road going forward past this point.Read past the fold for more information ...Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
hubie writes:American beaver populations are booming and their prolific dam building benefits river water quality so much, it outweighs the damaging influence of climate-driven droughts:
We all know that when somebody gets unauthorised access to your computer hardware that security is out of the window! But what if you have to leave your hardware unattended but ostensibly in a 'secure' location - your hotel room or somebody else's home? fab23 has submitted this article on what you can do if that is the case:fab23 writes:The SANS Internet Storm Center published the guest diary Evil Maid Attacks - Remediation for the Cheap:
acid andy writes:Researchers for the Human Brain Project have published a theory about how we become conscious of a sensory stimulus, which has been likened to a surfer timing when to catch a wave.
The launch of Artemis 1 has been successful - the next burn (trans lunar injection - TLI) is in about 20 minutes away to take Artemis on its way to the Moon.
hubie writes:The Selfish Herd Hypothesis posits that zebras zigzagging for the middle of a herd should be safest from the lion, but a recent study suggests otherwise:
Air Force's Mysterious Spaceplane Finally Lands After Spending 2.5 Years in OrbitAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://gizmodo.com/air-force-spaceplane-lands-after-nearly-3-years-1849779297