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Small business point-of-sale systems hacked Subway-style in Australia

arstechnica.com

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Intel researchers put WiFi inside—the processor, that is

arstechnica.com

43 pointsby thepacketrat14 tahun yang lalu20 comments

.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications

arstechnica.com

1 pointsby thepacketrat14 tahun yang lalu0 comments

Hosted websites open to hack thanks to late Plesk alert

arstechnica.com

1 pointsby thepacketrat14 tahun yang lalu0 comments

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thepacketrat

9 tahun yang laludiscuss

I did have other things to do... (I'm the author.) Also, I fumbled on the VM setup with VirtualBox—should have just used my vSphere Windows 10 instance, but it was already set up for sandboxing malware.

thepacketrat

11 tahun yang laludiscuss

Yes, the UK government is paying Microsoft a ton of cash for XP support, so this is possible.

thepacketrat

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Is anyone actually using this?

thepacketrat

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

They're hiring a webmaster. But I think it's in a different cold place: Madison, Wisconsin. http://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs/show/webmaster

thepacketrat

13 tahun yang laludiscuss

By VPN startups, they mean initiation of a VPN session. Specifically, this means they can grab the credentials at the beginning of a PPTP VPN session, and then decrypt it. PPTP has been known to be vulnerable to this sort of attack for some time.

thepacketrat

13 tahun yang laludiscuss

They're still supporting client-to-server XMPP, so third party apps can always just connect as a client rather than doing federation.

thepacketrat

14 tahun yang laludiscuss

Having lost my brother to suicide just a year ago, I can empathize deeply with your loss. My thoughts are with your family.

thepacketrat

14 tahun yang laludiscuss

Oh, yeah, because Pets.com would have worked so much better as a mobile app.

thepacketrat

14 tahun yang laludiscuss

With the contract switching from Raytheon to Lockheed, the general NSF support contract should have a bunch of IT positions opening up next research season, I'd think.