Unsupervised Learning: Episode 43

September 07, 2016

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News

  • Internet disinformation service for hire [ Link ]

  • Rob Fuller (@mubix) has found a way to pull credentials from a locked machine using a USB dongle and Responder [ Link ]

  • Yelp starts new bug bounty with HackerOne, offers up to 15K per bug [ Link ]

  • Foreign hackers supposedly access two state election databases, according to the FBI [ Link ]

  • New attacks discovered on SWIFT banking system. Few details given, but money was reportedly lost [ Link ]

  • 8 Brands of home routers compromised and used to build a botnet that launched https DDoS attacks against websites [ Link ]

  • FTC releases guidelines for smartphone safety with rental cars [ Link ]

  • Crowdstrike reports that Russia’s COZY BEAR, or APT29, launched cyberattacks against some of their think tank customers who were doing research on Russia [ Link ]

  • Brazzers porn site compromised, nearly 1 million accounts leaked [ Link ]

  • Federal government warming to idea of using more “hackery” tactics to attract and train cybersecurity personnel, including using CTFs and hiring people who have used cannabis [ Link ]

  • Google Analytics now providing automated analysis and recommendations [ Link ]

  • Google will soon start punishing sites’ rankings for showing annoying ad popups [ Link ]

  • Apple partnering with Sony to bring Apple Pay to Japan [ Link ]

  • SolarCity looks to replace the roofs of 5 million homes with solar cells [ Link ]

  • Elisa just hit 1.9Gbps on a 4G network. Finland and Germany launching 1Gbs 4G networks. Finland in two years, Germany in 1. [ Link ]

  • Europe announces that all scientific papers should be free by 2020 [ Link ]

  • Majel Barrett’s voice may be coming to Siri and other places [ Link ]

Ideas

  • Gaming as Microservices [ Link ]

  • When to use Vulnerability Assessments, Pentests, Bug Bounties, and Red Teams [ Link ]

  • From Apps to APIs [ Link ]

  • If you’re using Android, make sure it’s a Nexus  [ Link ]

Treasure

  • The a16z podcast on microservices [ Link ]

  • ARTLAS: Realtime logs analyzer [ Link ]

  • How to Create Secure Random Numbers in Various Languages [ Link ]

  • Fffound — a brilliant collection of art images [ Link ]

Inspiration

  • There’s nothing so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. ~ Peter Druker

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Notes

  1. The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.

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