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Nasty flaws in Symantec security tools expose millions of computers to hacking | PCWorld

The irony is killing: a product that is supposed to protect your enterprise contains severe security problems making your enterprise hackable through a carefully crafted email – which doesn’t even need to be opened!

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The Universe of Discourse : Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to

The rabbit hole can be really deep. The tl;dr version is this: this guy encountered an apparent bug in emacs in his work, but you will never guess what’s the cause of it.

Source: The Universe of Discourse : Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to

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No internet for Singapore public servants – BBC News

Great, now we’re on BBC for the wrong reasons. This goes totally against the Smart Nation, IoT and cloud movement. The scary prospect is that quasi-government agencies and even private organizations may take a cue from this and do the same.. Expect a strong pushback from the industry. OTOH, server vendors will be very happy 🙂

Singapore says it will restrict access to the internet for public servants from May next year because of information security concerns.

Source: No internet for Singapore public servants – BBC News

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*indrora->mind — DeadUpdate; Or, How I learned to stop worrying and…

Yet another major fail from a hardware vendor. The tl;dr version is this: Asus laptop comes with a software called LiveUpdate that deliver updates from Asus. The problem is it does so insecurely and without proper validation. So that makes it possible for someone to perform MiTM and deliver fake updates.

Source: *indrora->mind — DeadUpdate; Or, How I learned to stop worrying and…

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TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained

TeamViewer is a very popular tool for remote access due to its ease of use and firewall bypassing capability. It is widely used by IT support, sysadmins, appliance manufacturer, Pos system makers, individuals etc. If this hack is real it would have huge ramifications for users of this tool.

Remote-control tool wobbles offline, blames bad passwords for compromises

Source: TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained

Update (2016-06-04): Also reported here.

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Xiaomi’s Cheap New Drone Achieves Impulse-Buy Airspace | WIRED

Finally an affordable drone with decent specs and battery life? Will be waiting for review when it launches in July.

It’s a lot of drone for a (relatively) little price.

Source: Xiaomi’s Cheap New Drone Achieves Impulse-Buy Airspace | WIRED

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Serious vulnerability in ImageMagick

ImageMagick and its fork – GraphicsMagick – are widely used libraries by tons of applications for “displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files”.

All existing releases of GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick support a file
open syntax where if the first character of the file specification is
a ‘|’, then the remainder of the filename is passed to the shell for
execution using the POSIX popen(3C) function.

via CVE Request: GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick popen() shell vulnerability via filename

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OneCore to rule them all: How Windows Everywhere finally happened

A long-ish article on the history of Windows and a few behind the scenes look at the technology powering the various generations of Windows. The creation of OneCore explains why Microsoft is able to deploy Windows 10 to such a wide range of platforms, from Raspberry Pi, to XBox, to servers and even Hololens.

Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will.

Source: OneCore to rule them all: How Windows Everywhere finally happened

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Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs

A sensational title for sure. I, for one, am not convinced that progress in AI will lead to end of code. Techniques like ML will just become another tool, albeit a powerful one, in our toolbox. Formulating the right problem in the first place is something even most humans can’t do very well.

Welcome to the new world of artificial intelligence. Soon, we won’t program computers. We’ll train them. Like dolphins. Or dogs. Or humans.

Source: Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs

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Anonymous Hackers Shut Down Federal Reserve Bank

Banking systems around the world under attack from Anonymous group.

By: Jay Syrmopoulos via thefreethoughtproject.com After announcing a global call to arms against the “corrupt global banking cartel,” the hacker collective known as Anonymous, in conjunction with numerous other hacktivist groups, have taken over 20 central banks offline, including striking at the heart of the Western imperialist empire; the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, […]

Source: Anonymous Hackers Shut Down Federal Reserve Bank