If you don’t patch that device, somebody else may. Says Symantec.
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Lesson of the day.
Being popular has it’s downsides, @snowden learned it the hard way. The good part is, it looks a lot like he can be heard now. Now if only he will be understood.
I forgot to turn off notifications. Twitter sent me an email for each:
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DM47 gigs of notifications. #lessonlearned
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 1, 2015
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294 mass shootings in 274 days.
While we are all mourning the victims of a mass shooting in Oregon, the Washington Post has an infographic of recent mass shootings in the US this year. This only includes incidents with 4 or more victims.
Mass shootings are a near-daily occurrence in America.
via: So far in 2015, we’ve had 274 days and 294 mass shootings
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About Hackathons
Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture
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APPLE’S XCODEGHOST FAQ
We have no information to suggest that the malware has been used to do anything malicious or that this exploit would have delivered any personally identifiable information had it been used.
FAQ.
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US surveillance makes 'Safe Harbour' data treaty with EU invalid, European court adviser says
15-year-old ‘Safe Harbour’ agreement between the US and EU should not stop data transfers being suspended, legal counsel says
via Telegraph
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Project Zero looks at Kaspersky.
Google’s “Project Zero” took a look at Kaspersky’s products. The result is unpleasant, if not to say devastating.
The closing statement is a constructive mention towards Antivirus products.
In future, we would like to see antivirus unpackers, emulators and parsers sandboxed, not run with SYSTEM privileges.
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AWS in Plain English
You develop apps and want to move to the cloud? You may start looking at Amazon Web Services (AWS), but are confused? ExpeditedSSL translates the names for you. Priceless.
But with 50 plus opaquely named services, we decided that enough was enough and that some plain english descriptions were needed.
via: AWS in Plain English