Inspector General's Report: The DOD Software Fail
via Heather Kuldell, reporting for DefenseOne, comes the sorry tale of the fundamental failure of information security capability, this time at the Department of Defense, and revolving around the lack of control of what bits are installed on the Department's networks worldwide. All this, via the latest Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General's Report, DoD Management of Software Applications DODIG-2019-037. Astounding.
51st Mersenne Prime Discovered
via The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), comes word of the discovery of the 51st Mersenne Prime: 282,589,933-1. Discovered by GIMPS software, and executed by GIMPS user Patrick Laroche on a volunteered computer. Simply Outstanding.
"BLOWING ROCK, NC, December 21, 2018 -- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 282,589,933-1, having 24,862,048 digits. A computer volunteered by Patrick Laroche made the find on December 7, 2018. Patrick is one of thousands of volunteers using free GIMPS software available at www.mersenne.org/download/." - via The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)