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Even though cash payments have decreased to 49% of our daily payments, people in the eurozone still think cash is important and shouldn’t be banned. DNBulletin: Contant betalen moet mogelijk blijven Source: DNBulletin: Contant betalen moet mogelijk blijven There has been a movement to try to shame cash payments, into creating a shady overtone to Read more about 71% NL population likes cash[…]
Over the last few years, advances in science have made the kind of experiments once only accessible to PhDs with fancy labs far more attainable. College undergrads are constructing gene drives. Anyone can buy a kit on the internet to concoct their own bioluminescent beer. […] The German government, it seems, is none too pleased Read more about Germany Is Threatening Biohackers With Prison[…]
Drones are getting more and more important in everyday’s life. Here’s everything you need to know about them, their benefits and how they will influence your future. Source: 20 Ways Drones will Shape your Future They also cover military UAVs
A new app from Fraunhofer development engineers looks directly inside objects and displays specific constituents. It has numerous uses: For instance, apples can be scanned for pesticide residues. Applications will be added successively following the Wikipedia principle. […] Such scans usually require a special hyperspectral camera: It adjusts to different colored light each time and Read more about New smartphone app looks inside objects, shows what else is in there[…]
The availability of a universal quantum computer may have a fundamental impact on a vast number of research fields and on society as a whole. An increasingly large scientific and industrial community is working toward the realization of such a device. An arbitrarily large quantum computer may best be constructed using a modular approach. We Read more about Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer released[…]
“An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending API commands via HTTP to a particular URL without prior authentication,” Cisco said today. “An exploit could allow the attacker to perform any actions in Cisco Prime Home with administrator privileges.” Note that “administrator” was italicized by the networking giant. Super serious. Cisco pitches Prime Home as Read more about Cisco’s Prime Home lets hackers hijack people’s routers, from one single point at the ISP[…]
The presence of a large underdensity, the dipole repeller, is predicted based on a study of the velocity field of our Local Group of galaxies. The combined effects of this super-void and the Shapley concentration control the local cosmic flow. […] Our Local Group of galaxies is moving with respect to the cosmic microwave background Read more about Our galaxy is being pushed towards Shapley attractor from Dipole repeller by gravity flows[…]
The flawed version is in Debian 9 (Stretch), currently in testing, but not in Debian 8 (Jessie). The bug appears to be a result of a bad interaction with the encfs encrypted filesystem’s command line interface: Cryptkeeper invokes encfs and attempts to enter paranoia mode with a simulated ‘p’ keypress – instead, it sets passwords Read more about Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has universal password: ‘p’[…]
If PostScript is the printer driver, the printer is vulnerable to what they call Cross-Site Printing attacks, documented in detail at Hacking Printers here. The bugs range from attackers exfiltrating copies of what’s sent to printers, to denial-of-service, code execution, forced resets and even bricking the targets. The work from the University Alliance Ruhr landed Read more about PostScript printers extremely vulnerable outside of the network[…]
“Hmm, what is that unauth.cgi thingy? and what does that id number mean?”, I thought to myself. Luckily for me the Internet connection had come back on its own, but I was now a man on a mission, so I started to look around to see if there were any known vulnerabilities for my VEGN2610. Read more about Bypassing Authentication on NETGEAR Routers[…]
More than a third of organisations that experienced a breach last year reported substantial customer, opportunity and revenue loss. The finding is one of the key takeaways from the latest edition of Cisco’s annual cybersecurity report, which also suggests that defenders are struggling to improve defences against a growing range of threats. The vast majority Read more about Suffered a breach? Expect to lose cash, opportunities, and customers – report[…]
Phone numbers, browser histories, and social media posts are all examples of the sort of data that could be mined from those entering the US under Trump’s “extreme vetting” policy, Department of Homeland Security secretary John Kelly said today. As Talking Points Memo reported, Kelly held a press conference this afternoon to discuss the president’s Read more about Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ for US Visitors Could Involve Social Media Posts and Browser Histories[…]
Backblaze has recorded and saved daily hard drive statistics from the drives in our data centers since April 2013. At the end of 2016 we had 73,653 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,553 boot drives and 72,100 data drives. […] In 2016, three drives models ended the year with zero failures, albeit Read more about 2016 Hard Drive Reliabilty Benchmark Stats by Backblaze[…]
Secret FBI rules allow agents to obtain journalists’ phone records with approval from two internal officials — far less oversight than under normal judicial procedures. The classified rules, obtained by The Intercept and dating from 2013, govern the FBI’s use of national security letters, which allow the bureau to obtain information about journalists’ calls without Read more about Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists[…]
Source: A commuter’s dream: Entrepreneurs race to develop flying car This article has a fairly good roundup of the flying car projects out there, even if they did leave out the Dutch Aeromobil Roadable project.
It starts with the type of headset you need. You have PNR = passive noise reduction, ANR = active noise reduction and earpiece type headsets. PNR relies on the shell and the seal (which is gel or foam [gel when broken will leak and requires a full replacement of the seal, foam will live through Read more about Aviation Headsets Guide[…]
A team from CSIRO’s Data 61, University of NSW and UC Berkley in the US found a whole bunch of Android VPN apps contain viruses, spyware and other adware. Researchers analysed the apps available for Android to look for nasties like trojans, spyware and adware — giving each an “anti-virus rank (AV)” based on what Read more about Viruses, spyware found in ‘alarming’ number of Android VPN apps[…]
“Typically, we permanently remove files and folders from our servers within 60 days of a user deleting them. However, the deleted files and folders impacted by this bug had metadata inconsistencies,” Dropbox employee Ross S said on the company’s support forum. “So we quarantined and excluded them from the permanent deletion process until the metadata Read more about Dropbox: Oops, yeah, we didn’t actually delete all your files – this bug kept them in the cloud[…]
Glazier Glazier is a tool for automating the installation of the Microsoft Windows operating system on various device platforms. Why Glazier? Glazier was created with certain principles in mind. Text-based & Code-driven With Glazier, imaging is configured entirely via text files. This allows technicians to leverage source control systems to maintain and develop their imaging Read more about google/glazier: A tool for automating the installation of the Microsoft Windows operating system on various device platforms.[…]
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 2.0 is now available. This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS. It also contains a lot of improvements across the Read more about Wine 2.0 Released[…]
In a paper for the journal Biofabrication, the team details how the printer lays down bioinks containing human plasma as well as primary human fibroblasts and keratinocytes. The printer first lays down a layer of external epidermis and then a thicker layer of fibroblasts that produce collagen, which will make the flesh strong and elastic. Read more about Boffins perfect 3D bioprinter that produces slabs of human skin[…]
a completely proactive and signature-less technology that is able to detect and block even the most dangerous of ransomware variants like CryptoWall4, CryptoLocker, Tesla, and CTB-Locker. Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has enough evidence Read more about Introducing Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware Beta[…]
Bitdefender Anti-Ransomware prevents the following families of ransomware from encrypting your files: CTB-Locker, Locky, Pertya, and TeslaCrypt. Bitdefender cannot guarantee the effectiveness of the tool against different strains of ransomware, nor be held liable for the loss of sensitive data. Source: Anti Ransomware Tool Shame…
Cryptostalker and the original project randumb are the work of Sean Williams, a developer from San Francisco. Mr. Williams wanted to create a tool that monitored the filesystem for newly written files, and if the files contained random data, the sign of encrypted content, and they were written at high speed, it would alert the Read more about Cryptostalker, a Tool to Detect Crypto-Ransomware on Linux[…]
Let’s try to generically thwart OS X ransomware via math! By continually monitoring the file-system for the creation of encrypted files by suspicious processes, RansomWhere? aims to protect your personal files, generically stopping ransomware in its tracks. Source: Objective-See