Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks : massive fail. ‘By simply disabling Javascript in his browser, he was able to […] dump the router’s configuration file […which] included the administrative login and password in cleartext.’
(tags: smc8014 doh privacy internet security fail time-warner via:reddit pathetic javascript)Cybercrime Organizations Turn to ‘Mafia-Style’ Structure : good research coming out of McAfee — lots of Eastern European, Russian, and ex-USSR-country cybercrime businesses nowadays, apparently
(tags: spam scams scareware russia eastern-europe ukraine romania credit-cards antivirus mcafee security phishing)XZ Utils : 15% smaller than bzip, 30% smaller than gzip, and now shipped with Fedora and Ubuntu. uses LZMA2
(tags: xz xzdec gzip bzip compression lzma via:wmf unix compress)
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XZ isn’t just shipped with Fedora, it’s what they use for RPM now!
adam
Adam — wow, I had no idea!