Security Leftovers
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More Windows PCs infected with NSA backdoor DoublePulsar [Ed: Look what Microsoft's back doors for the NSA are causing this month; recall Snowden's leaks about it.]
Although the exact number varies among security researchers, the DoublePulsar infection rate is climbing
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NSA-linked hacking tools released by Shadow Brokers have compromised almost 200,000 Windows PCs
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'Beautiful' NSA hacking tool DoublePulsar infects almost 200,000 Windows PCs
Tools supposedly developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) leaked early this month by the Shadow Brokers hacking group are being used in attacks on Windows PCs.
The tools, released to the open-source developer website Github, have been gratefully scooped up by malware writers of varying levels of competency and pimped via phishing emails across the internet.
And researchers at Swiss security company Binary Edge claim to have found 183,107 compromised PCs connected to the internet after conducting a scan for the DoublePulsar malware. Conducted every day over the past four days, the number of infected PCs has increased dramatically with each scan, according to Binary Edge.
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Three months on, no Linksys router patches for remote holes
More than three months after being informed about remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in 25 router models, Linksys is yet to issue patches to remedy them.
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[Older] Tracing Spam: Diet Pills from Beltway Bandits
Here’s the simple story of how a recent spam email advertising celebrity “diet pills” was traced back to a Washington, D.C.-area defense contractor that builds tactical communications systems for the U.S. military and intelligence communities.
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Top-ranked programming Web tutorials introduce vulnerabilities into software
“[Our findings] suggest that there is a pressing need for code audit of widely consumed tutorials, perhaps with as much rigor as for production code,” they pointed out.
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[Old] PHP: a fractal of bad design
PHP is an embarrassment, a blight upon my craft. It’s so broken, but so lauded by every empowered amateur who’s yet to learn anything else, as to be maddening. It has paltry few redeeming qualities and I would prefer to forget it exists at all.
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The Cloud Foundry Approach to Container Storage and Security
Recently, The New Stack published an article titled “Containers and Storage: Why We Aren’t There Yet” covering a talk from IBM’s James Bottomley at the Linux Foundation’s Vault conference in March. Both the talk and article focused on one of the central problems we’ve been working to address in the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s Diego Persistence project team, so we thought it would be a good idea to highlight the features we’ve added to mitigate it. Cloud Foundry does significantly better than what the article suggests is the current state of the art on the container security front, so we’ll cover that here as well.
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