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Lees meerJust about every content security policy does it wrong Google has spent more than US$1.2 million (£920,400, A$1.6 million) in the last two years paying researchers for reporting cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and has kicked off an effort to help…
Lees meerProject Springfield offers fuzzing, which isn't nearly as titillating as it sounds Ignite Microsoft's conviction that "fuzzing in the cloud will revolutionize security testing," voiced in a research paper six years ago, has taken form with the debu…
Lees meerCross-border Kosovan cuffing leads to long stretch inside A student who hacked into corporate servers to build a kill list for medieval terror bastards Daesh has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting his guilt.…
Lees meerCerts now the same for end-users and partners, but re-certification can now be annual, Microsoft has “streamlined” its Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) and Developer (MCSD) certifications and will require holders to sit exams annually to stay curre…
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Lees meerA pretty pile of penny coins, a train set and more twee crap vie for this year's bonkers art gong A giant sculpture of a human arse, £20,000 in one-pence coins, and an off-the-shelf model train are some of the exhibits competing for this year's Turn…
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Lees meerRuskie space program doc used as spear phish payload. Suspected Russian hackers fingered for hacking the United States Democratic National Committee (DNC) have brewed a trojan targeting Mac OS X machines in the aerospace sector, says Palo Alto resea…
Lees meerRFC identifies handy spot for RTT, packet loss metrics A proposal at the Internet Engineering Task Force suggests network admins can use the venerable STUN protocol to help them pick the best path across IP networks.…
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Lees meerGood ol' boys' club gives jobs to good ol' boys, lawsuit says America's favourite Big Brother-backed unicorn, Palantir Technologies, is being sued by the US Department of Labor (DoL) for alleged discrimination against Asian job applicants.…
Lees meerDon't laugh. Epson printer/fax machines dating back to 1999 have this problem Party like it's 1999, phreakers: a bug in Epson multifunction printer firmware creates a vector to networks that don't have their own Internet connection.…
Lees meerRecursion (n): See recursion Sysadmins and devs, fresh from a weekend spoiled by last week's OpenSSL emergency patch, have another emergency patch to install.…
Lees meerFounder boss's funding of Trump trolls sparks backlash A number of game developers have decided to end their support of the Oculus virtual reality headset over reports that its founder Palmer Luckey is actively funding "Trump trolls."…
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