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The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a search while delaying notice to the suspect of the search. Known as a “sneak and peek” warrant, law...
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Reverse engineering is a special subgenre of computer programming. It's about the closest that I as a programmer get to being a scientist. Gather data, formulate a hypothesis, test, refine, repeat: reverse engineering is basically applying the scientific method to a very, very small knowledge domain. If you've never…
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New data gathered from the cybercrime underground suggests that the apparent credit and debit card breach at Home Depot involves nearly all of the company’s stores across the nation.
When TLS was defined, it didn’t allow more than one hostname to be available on a single IP address / port pair, leading to “virtual hosting” issues; each Web site (for example) now requires a dedicated IP address.
Two interesting things in formally verified software happened recently. The big one was the release of SeL4 - a formally verified L4 microkernel. The second was much smaller, but closer to my usual scope: a paper which showed the correctness of sections of a couple of the assembly implementations of Curve25519.
Last summer’s Snowden revelations not only highlighted the urgent need for surveillance reform but also severely damaged relations between t...
Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It: Explore the challenges posed by SSD drives in preserving court evidence and discover strategies to mitigate data loss risks.
After seeing a FOIA request earlier today that someone created asking for FBI training documents that teach staff how to understand/communicate using hacker leet-speak, I was reminded about something I’ve wanted to put in virtual ink for a while.
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Virtually every organization uses a directory service such as Active Directory to allow computers to join domains, list and authenticate users, and to locate and connect to printers, and other network services including SQL Server databases. A centralized directory reduces the amount of administrative work that must…
When they start using Docker, people often ask: “How do I get inside my containers?” and other people will tell them “Run an SSH server in your containers!” but that’s a very bad practice. We will see why it’s wrong, and what you should do instead.
Byte swapping does not necessarily imply the data comes from an external source. For example, when writing graphics code, you sometimes need to do byte swapping if you’re converting between 24-bit RGB and BGR image formats (Windows’ GDI famously uses BGR so this is one place where you need to do such conversions)…
A Ukrainian man who claimed responsibility for organizing a campaign to send heroin to my home last summer has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of trafficking in stolen credit card accounts, among other things, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned.
Who actually checks the permissions of applications they’re installing? A little while ago a Paypal update stalled because it required extra permissions. This is what happens if an app you have already installed wants more power. I was more than a little surprised with what I found.
OK, rebuild bash and deploy Florian's unofficial patch or its now-upstream version now. If you're a distro maintainer, please consider doi...
The U.S. Secret Service is advising the hospitality industry to inspect computers made available to guests in hotel business centers, warning that crooks have been compromising hotel business center PCs with keystroke-logging malware in a bid to steal personal and financial data from guests.
At Mozilla, we believe that an individuals’ privacy on the Internet cannot be treated as optional. Our Privacy Principles guide us with the design of each of our products and ...
Hey. I decided to get a paid plan on Github and Paypal looked like a good payment option to me. Click the blue button here : This looks ...
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