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Bismillah
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Unbeknownst to vehicle drivers, newer cars record and store GPS data that can be retrieved, providing accurate location information going back years, security researchers have discovered.
175202683
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Bismillah
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Python New Zealand has gone through some rough times lately, with its
then-treasurer stealing money from the society.
Things were looking really serious for a while, with Python NZ looking at being liquidated due to the theft of funds.
However, there is a silver lining to the story, as the free and open source movement rallied behind Python NZ and got them out of a serious pickle.
162490616
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Bismillah
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Work is afoot to fix up 1980s design "mistakes" for IPv4, which could potentially
free up another 419 million addresses for use.
Some software changes needed for this to happen, but will it be practical to implement Seth Schoen's suggestions?
162336298
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Bismillah
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Single wavelength, single fibre pair GPON
upgrade planned
that will run over the wholesale Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) network that's part government-funded.
136281628
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Bismillah
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A software engineer in Melbourne is whiling away the city’s lockdown by creating a tool that DOS users so far have lacked:
an integrated Linux environment
similar to what Windows 10 users enjoy.
106900040
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Bismillah
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Researchers have published the
results of exploring how vulnerable Thunderbolt is to DMA attacks, and the answer is "very"
. Be careful what you plug into that USB-C port. Yes, the set of vulnerabilities has a name: Thunderclap.
106088922
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Bismillah
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As an illustration of the dangers of giving governments backdoors into systems and networks,
Russia's government reusing the mandatory remote access credentials for business IT systems
in the country is hard to beat. Researchers found the reused creds on thousands of open MongoDB instances in Russia but it took three and a half years to fix the problem.
103815619
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Bismillah
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China Telecom is up to no good with BGP shenanigans
researchers have discovered.
. The state-owned telco is hijacking and rerouting internet traffic to China via it's US and Canadian PoPs.
102563996
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Bismillah
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Last week, officials from the Five-Eyes countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand)
issued a statement saying tech providers will have to come up with a way to provide lawful access to encrypted data
, or else. How tech companies do it is up to them, but they will have to do it. Plus, uploads of illicit content must be prevented. If it can't be prevented, providers have to take such content with all haste.
102011064
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Bismillah
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Hashcat developers tried to poke holes in WPA3 and found
a way to attack WPA/WPA2 instead.
95734965
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Bismillah
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School admins are reporting that thousands of managed Chromebooks have
suddenly forgotten their WiFi passwords and SSIDs
, and can't connect to networks. The cause of the problem is unclear, but it may be related to an earlier Google service outage.
90297137
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Bismillah
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Researchers at NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and Estonia's University of Tallinn
have worked out how to set up
communications channels using IPv6 transition mechanisms, to exfiltrate data and for systems control over IPv4-only and dual-stack networks — without being spotted by network intrusion detection systems.
88916653
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Bismillah
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A seven-year
study has found
a correlation between increased internet activity per capita, and gross domestic product. And, the study mapped changing sleep patterns around the world as well.
80849633
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Westfield's Scentre Group has
removed SMS notifications for its ticketless parking system
after it was discovered they could be used to track other people's cars unnoticed. The system allows you to enter any licence plate, which in turn will be scanned upon entry and exit at mall parking facilities — and when the free parking time is up, a notification message is sent to the mobile phone number entered, with the exact location of the car.
80657967
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Bismillah
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The recent 13-microsecond timing anomaly
was caused by a satellite failure triggering a "software issue"
, the USAF 50th Space Wing has confirmed. Such an error is large enough to cause navigation errors of up to 4 km. Luckily, no issues with GPS guided munition were reported.
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