Security Leftovers
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Security advisories for Thursday
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Hertz: Abusing privileged and unprivileged Linux containers
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How LinkedIn’s password sloppiness hurts us all
Me: "The full dump from the 2012 LinkedIn breach just dropped, so you're probably not going to see much of me over the next week."
Wife: "Again?"
Yes, again. If you're just waking up from a coma you would be forgiven for thinking that it's still 2012. But no, it's 2016 and the LinkedIn breach is back from the dead—on its four-year anniversary, no less. If you had a LinkedIn account in 2012, there's a 98 percent chance your password has been cracked.
Back in 2012, fellow professional password cracker d3ad0ne (who regretfully passed away in 2013) and I made short work out of the first LinkedIn password dump, cracking more than 90 percent of the 6.4 million password hashes in just under one week. Following that effort, I did a short write-up ironically titled The Final Word on the LinkedIn Leak.
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The Internet of Things
A common question is whether or not IoT is something new and revolutionary or a buzzword for old ideas? The answer is “yes”…
Much of the foundation of IoT has been around for quite a while. SCADA systems, or Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition has been around since the 1950’s managing electrical power grids, railroads, and factories. Machine communications over telephone lines and microwave links has been around since the 1960’s. Machine control systems, starting on mainframes and minicomputers, have also been around since the 1960’s.
The big changes are economics, software, and integration. Microsensors and SoC (System on a Chip) technology for CPUs and networking are driving the cost of devices down – in some cases by a factor of a thousand! Advances in networking – both networking technology as well as the availability of pervasive networking – are changing the ground rules and economics for machine to machine communication.
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Signal and Google Cloud Services
I just installed Signal on my Android phone.
It wasn't an easy decision. I have been running Cyanogenmod, a Google-free version of Android, and installing apps from F-Droid, a repository of free software android apps, for several years now. This setup allows me to run all the applications I need without Google accessing any of my cell phone data. It has been a remarkably successful experiment leaving me with all the phone software I need. And it's consistent with my belief that Google's size, reach and goals are a menace to the left's ability to develop the autonomous communications systems on the Internet that we need to achieve any meaningful political change.
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