Daily Archives: February 18, 2016

Companies Are Using Big Data to Discourage Employees From Having Costly Surgery

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Do you work for a big company? Have you been having back pain? Your company probably knows about it already thanks to high-tech healthcare companies that it hired. Welcome to our brave new world of big data.

Source: Companies Are Using Big Data to Discourage Employees From Having Costly Surgery

They are using this to improve the health of their employess. Good. But also to track who is trying to get pregnant. Bad. Health information is very private for a reason. Having your employer look at it is very very bad and can lead to discrimination based on your medical history.

glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow – patch now

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The glibc DNS client side resolver is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the getaddrinfo() library function is used. Software using this function may be exploited with attacker-controlled domain names, attacker-controlled DNS servers, or through a man-in-the-middle attack. Google has found some mitigations that may help prevent exploitation if you are not able to immediately patch your instance of glibc. The vulnerability relies on an oversized (2048+ bytes) UDP or TCP response, which is fo

Source: Google Online Security Blog: CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

Denuvo Anti-Piracy Tech stays good during the sales window of games, which is long enough

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More than two months after release, it’s still not possible to pirate Just Cause 3. The same is true for Rise of the Tomb Raider, released for PC in late January. Cracking computer games used to be measured in hours or days, but now, it’s turning into weeks and months. The nature of piracy is changing in a big way.

Source: The Anti-Piracy Tech That’s Giving Hackers Fits