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ABP (Adblock Plus), one of the more ubiquitous ad block solutions available has called Facebook's bluff, and released a new filter to Facebook's workaround (to thwart said adblockage)... Outstanding.
ABP (Adblock Plus), one of the more ubiquitous ad block solutions available has called Facebook's bluff, and released a new filter to Facebook's workaround (to thwart said adblockage)... Outstanding.
Quite true, indeed... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Gendarmerie Royale du Canada always get their man.
News - via the United States Marshals Service - of the scheduled Bitcoin auction of Ross Ulbricht's' ill-gotten booty (as a component of other asset forfeitures, in a to be conveyed to the highest bidder and comprised within a single block totalling 2,719.32669068 bitcoins}, passed my threshold of attention yesterday (Hat Tip)...
JR Raphael, writing at Computerworld, is now the judge and heir-apparent of what-is-what-shall-be-and-what-is-not-damaging (and least from a security perspective) to the now troubled Android Operating System (in reality all mobile OS's are in deep trouble as they are but a part of a larger, flawed ecosystem - vis. a vis. app store vectored attacks, et cetera). Regardless, it is now time for you be the judge.
Grønland, Verdens Mest Usædvanlige Militær Enhed, via Denver David Robinson, contributing writer at the Christian Science Monitor, details how the Danes' Protect and Patrol Greenland, today's Must Read.
Meanwhile, in OpenSource Software nonsense-hacks-perpetrated-by-children-with-heads-full-of-mush, comes word of a FOSSHub hack by a group monikered Cult of Peggle, according to Ionut Arghire, writing at InfosecIsland.
Apparently, both Audacity and ClassicShell (distributed via FossHub, and due to the attack) now exhibit the behavior of malware-laden install files... In this case, a ridiculous attack, targeting the highly-regarded sound editing and shell throwback products facilitating an MBR overwrite...
Our children deserve better.
I can no longer stand by as a passive witness to this situation. I was born into a 1201-free world, and our future generations deserve that same freedom of thought and expression. I am but one instrument in a large orchestra performing the symphony for freedom, but I hope my small part can remind us that once upon a time, there was a world free of such artificial barriers, and that creativity and expression go hand in hand with the ability to share without fear. - Bunnie Huang
Anti-espionage bombast? Nothing more than diatribe-like vaporware? You be the judge...
Yes, NIST has withdrawn it's recommendation for SMS based multi-factor authentication. I say good riddance. More here. Use percutaneous embedded NFC devices instead...
Holy Mackerel... Now, from Ed Snowden, comes a concept iPhone case targeting surveillance...
via Kate Kochetkova writing on the Kaspersky blog, comes advice on mitigating iOS tracking. Well played Ms. Kochetkova, Well Played.
Meanwhile, in Hell-Freezing-Over-News, AT&T (NYSE: T) has open sourced the company's network playbook to the Linux Foundation. Astonishing.
via the eponymous Mark E.S. Bernard (on his profile at LinkedIn comes this well-wrought diagram comparing Information Security to Cyber Security. Along with the diagram is a superb narrative detailing that comparison. Enjoy...
News, via Dan Goodin, writing at ArsTechnica, tells the tale of a newly discovered Pokémon Go impostor application on the Google Play store. Oops...
Researchers from antivirus provider Eset report finding at least three such apps in the Google-hosted marketplace. - via Dan Goodin writing at ArsTechnica
News, via The Washington Post, of efforts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect American Blackfooted Ferrets (the single North American ferret genus) utilzing drone-delivered peanut-butter pellets laced with vaccine targeting the Plague.
The twist, as it were, is the pellet peanut-butter goodness - which is targeting Prairie Dogs one of the prime nutrient sources for the American Ferret, and not the genus Mustela Nigripes.