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Microsoft Exchange mobile users on Android and iOS users have been unable to access the service on their mobile devices due to a planned shift away from its Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol. The issue first appeared yesterday and is still affecting users. One customer got in touch to say: “Exchange Mobile device access seems Read more about Exchange down for Android and iOS users[…]
The documented D-Link DWR-932 vulnerabilities affect the latest available firmware. Kim first responsibly disclosed them to the D-Link Security Incident Response Team in June, but after the company said early this month that they don’t have a schedule for a firmware release, he decided to go public with the details about some of the flaws. Read more about D-Link DWR-932 router is chock-full of security holes[…]
In a test lasting until December this year, KLM will be using an AI to answer questions from a pool of 60000 responses in the database. It will learn from user responses to these questions. Currently KLM is answering 100000 user queries per week on social media, so this must make a huge saving! Source: Read more about KLM to use AI on social media[…]
Assistant Professor Matthew Green has asked US courts for protection so that he can write a textbook explaining cryptography without getting sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Green, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, is penning a tome called Practical Cryptographic Engineering that examines the cryptographic mechanisms behind the devices we use Read more about Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook[…]
It has been an odd day for Newsweek – its main site was taken offline after it published a story claiming a company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump broke an embargo against doing deals with Cuba. The magazine first thought that the sheer volume of interest in its scoop was the cause for Read more about Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia[…]
In a paper [PDF] presented in August at the 25th Annual Usenix Security Symposium, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Cornell University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed that machine learning models can be stolen and that basic security measures don’t really mitigate attacks. Machine learning models may, for example, Read more about AI Machine-learning models vulnerable to reverse engineering[…]
systemd fails an assertion in manager_invoke_notify_message when a zero-length message is received over /run/systemd/notify. This allows a local user to perform a denial-of-service attack against PID 1.Proof-of-concept:NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/systemd/notify systemd-notify “” Source: Assertion failure when PID 1 receives a zero-length message over notify socket · Issue #4234 · systemd/systemd · GitHub
In a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of its space station. China’s Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the Read more about China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth[…]
Threatening file-sharers with high fines or even prison sentences is not the best way to stop piracy. New research published by UK researchers shows that perceived risk has no effect on people’s file-sharing habits. Instead, the entertainment industries should focus on improving the legal options, so these can compete with file-sharing. Source: Stop Piracy? Legal Read more about Stop Piracy? Legal Alternatives Beat Legal Threats, Research Shows[…]
“This update removes the Get Windows 10 app and other software related to the Windows 10 free upgrade offer that expired on July 29, 2016,” Microsoft’s article says, advising that no action other than a restart will be required to do the deed. Source: Microsoft deletes Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8 phew! Read more about Microsoft deletes Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8[…]
Linux users are worried that some of Lenovo’s PCs, such as variants of the Yoga 710 and Yoga 900, aren’t allowing them to install their preferred operating system. They note that the systems’ solid-state drives use a RAID mode that Linux doesn’t understand. That’s unpleasant enough, but Lenovo’s initial handling of complaints didn’t help. Its Read more about Some Lenovo PCs can’t run Linux[…]
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has placed a £2.5 million order for UK-designed and built miniature decoys which will help to protect combat jets from missiles. BriteCloud, which is similar in size and appearance to a beverage can, can be fired from an aircraft’s flare dispenser without the need for modification to the aircraft. Read more about MOD orders UK-designed mini missile decoy for RAF[…]
A thourough and scary analysis of what you can do with just metadata, applied to the hacking team leak. A great case for mistrusting metadata storage by anyone. https://labs.rs/en/metadata/
An open source, physically secure personal computer. Source: ORWL – The First Open Source, Physically Secure Computer | Crowd Supply
MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books. In the latest issue of Nature Communications, the researchers describe a prototype of the system, which they tested on a stack of papers, each with one letter printed on it. The system was able to correctly identify the letters on Read more about System can read closed books[…]
Microsoft Azure is wobbling all around the world at the moment, especially Azure DNS. According to a status update on Microsoft’s site, the issues began around lunchtime, although there is no mention of when they are likely to be fixed. Customers using Azure DNS in multiple regions are experiencing difficulties connecting to their goodies at Read more about Azure is on fire, your DNS is terrified[…]
Cited in a DMCA takedown request filed against Google on behalf of Paramount Pictures, and spotted by TorrentFreak (and tipped to us by reader ~nonanonymous) is an innocuous link to a 32-bit alternate install image Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. The takedown request seeks to remove links to a number of torrent URLS that are alleged to Read more about Ubuntu Torrent Removed from Google for ‘Infringing’ Transformers Movie – OMG! Ubuntu![…]
Nvidia’s GeForce Experience 3.0 is better than ever before, but you need to sign up to use it. Source: Nvidia’s faster, better GeForce Experience 3.0 launches with mandatory registration | PCWorld Sigh. We buy their products already, so they don’t actually need to monetise our private lives 🙁
Researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics. The experimental prototypes are lightweight, conform to the shape of the body, and can generate far more electricity than previous lightweight heat harvesting technologies Source: Lightweight, wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricity — Read more about Lightweight, wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricity[…]
By creating config files you can escalate through the mysqld_safe script using malloc_lib Source: Bad news: MySQL can dish out root access to cunning miscreants
Free vector graphics editor. A simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool for everyone. Source: Vectr – Free Online Vector Graphics Editor You don’t have to use the online version, you can also download the offline client.
ClixSense, a site which pays users to view ads and take surveys, was the victim of a massive data breach compromising around 6.6 million user accounts. Usually when there’s a data breach of this size, the information stolen contains usernames, passwords, and some other personal information, but due to the nature of ClixSense and the Read more about Over 6 million ClixSense users compromised by data breach[…]
Perhaps feeling a little bent out of shape about how much shit their country caught for running a massive, Cold War-style doping program for Olympic athletes, a group of Russian hackers have obtained confidential documents that they claim prove American Olympians are also big fat cheaters. The only problem is that the leaked documents don’t Read more about Russian Hackers Get Into World Anti-Doping Agency Data, Find Nothing Incriminating[…]
The FCC has been formally regulating behavioural advertising since the 1990s. You’d think they’d be all over Google and Facebook, then, right? Actually, no. The FCC is now run by a former Obama fund-raiser, Tom Wheeler, and it can’t do enough for Silicon Valley, whether it’s collectivising songwriters rights or disaggregating TV. What the FCC Read more about Google’s become an obsessive stalker and you can’t get a restraining order[…]
NO, there is no opt out! The Dutch government has passed a law allowing insurance companies to access medical files with a “suspicion of fraud” (whatever that is) and only have to tell the person who’s privacy has been infringed three months later. Medical privacy is one of the last untouchable bastions of privacy, I Read more about NL Gov gets rid of medical confidentiality[…]