Cipher – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com Open Source Entertainment, on Demand. Wed, 05 Apr 2017 09:02:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Cipher – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com 32 32 Wifi Stack Overfloweth | TechSNAP 313 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/113571/wifi-stack-overfloweth-techsnap-313/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 01:02:34 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=113571 RSS Feeds: HD Video Feed | Mobile Video Feed | MP3 Audio Feed | Ogg Audio Feed | iTunes Feed | Torrent Feed Become a supporter on Patreon: Show Notes: iOS 10.3.1 update prevents: attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip What is a stack buffer overflow? What […]

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iOS 10.3.1 update prevents: attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip

Hackers Are Emptying ATMs With a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear

  • NOT SO LONG ago, enterprising thieves who wanted to steal the entire contents of an ATM had to blow it up. Today, a more discreet sort of cash-machine burglar can walk away with an ATM’s stash and leave behind only a tell-tale three-inch hole in its front panel.

  • The dispenser will obey and dispense money, and it can all be done with a very simple microcomputer.

  • They found that the machine’s only encryption was a weak XOR cipher they were able to easily break, and that there was no real authentication between the machine’s modules

  • In practical terms, that means any part of the ATM could essentially send commands to any other part, allowing an attacker to spoof commands to the dispenser, giving them the appearance of coming from the ATM’s own trusted computer.

Let’s Encrypt

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]]> A Bias to Insecurity | TechSNAP 223 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/85347/a-bias-to-insecurity-techsnap-223/ Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:56:01 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=85347 The Hacking Team fallout continues with more zero day patches you need to install, a new attack against RC4 might finally kill it & how to save yourself from a DDoS attack. Plus a great batch of your questions, our answers & much, much more! Thanks to: Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean Direct Download: […]

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The Hacking Team fallout continues with more zero day patches you need to install, a new attack against RC4 might finally kill it & how to save yourself from a DDoS attack.

Plus a great batch of your questions, our answers & much, much more!

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Hacking Team fallout includes more Flash patches

New attack against RC4 cipher might finally kill it

  • RC4 is one of the oldest ciphers still used as part of HTTPS
  • It was often selected for its lower CPU overhead, but as processors got faster and ssl terminators offloaded the work, this became less of a reason to use RC4
  • It looked like RC4 would finally die, but then attacks against SSL/TLS that only affected block ciphers emerged: BEAST, Lucky 13, and POODLE
  • This propelled RC4 back up the priority list
  • RC4 is also the most compatible cipher, older systems that do not support stronger crypto, all have RC4
  • RFC 7465 proposed by Microsoft and others, was approved by the IETF and requires that RC4 not be used
  • Researchers have presented a new paper at the USENIX Security conference that details a new attack against RC4
  • RC4 is still widely used for HTTPS and also for some types of WiFi
  • The flaw allows the attacker to steal cookies and other encrypted information in your HTTPS session
  • This might allow the attack to impersonate / login as you on the site. Posting to your Twitter account, or initiating a transfer from your PayPal account.
  • “The research behind the attack will be presented at USENIX Security. Summarized, an attacker can decrypt a cookie within 75 hours. In contrast to previous attacks, this short execution time allows us to perform the attack in practice. When we tested the attack against real devices, it took merely 52 hours to successfully perform the attack”
  • “When the victim visits an unencrypted website, the attacker inserts malicious JavaScript code inside the website. This code will induce the victim to transmit encrypted requests which contain the victim’s web cookie. By monitoring numerous of these encrypted requests, a list of likely cookie values can be recovered. All cookies in this list are tested until the correct one is found.”
  • Attack Method:
    • Step 1: Attacker injects code into victims HTTP stream, causing them to make known requests to a secure site with their cookie
    • Step 2: Attacker captures the encrypted requests going to the site secured with RC4
    • Step 3: Attacker computes likely cookies and tries each one until they successfully guess the correct cookie
    • Step 4: Profit, empty the bank account
  • “To successfully decrypt a 16-character cookie with a success probability of 94%, roughly 9⋅2^27 encryptions of the cookie need to be captured. Since we can make the client transmit 4450 requests per seconds, this amount can be collected in merely 75 hours. If the attacker has some luck, less encryptions need to be captured. In our demonstration 52 hours was enough to execute the attack, at which point 6.2⋅2^27 requests were captured. Generating these requests can even be spread out over time: they do not have to be captured all at once. During the final step of the attack, the captured requests are transformed into a list of 2^23 likely cookie values. All cookies in this list can be tested in less than 7 minutes.”
  • “In the paper we not only present attacks against TLS/HTTPS, but also against WPA-TKIP. Our attack against WPA-TKIP takes only an hour to execute, and allows an attacker to inject and decrypt arbitrary packets.”
  • How does this compare to previous attacks? “The first attack against RC4 as used in TLS was estimated to take more than 2000 hours”
  • Paper: All Your Biases Belong to Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS

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]]> Cryptocrystalline | BSD Now 16 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/48367/cryptocrystalline-bsd-now-16/ Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:53:55 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=48367 How to do a fully-encrypted installation of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. We also have an interview with Damien Miller - one of the lead developers of OpenSSH.

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We\’ll be showing you how to do a fully-encrypted installation of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. We also have an interview with Damien Miller – one of the lead developers of OpenSSH – about some recent crypto changes in the project. If you\’re into data security, today\’s the show for you. The latest news and all your burning questions answered, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

Secure communications with OpenBSD and OpenVPN

  • Starting off today\’s theme of encryption…
  • A new blog series about combining OpenBSD and OpenVPN to secure your internet traffic
  • Part 1 covers installing OpenBSD with full disk encryption (which we\’ll be doing later on in the show)
  • Part 2 covers the initial setup of OpenVPN certificates and keys
  • Parts 3 and 4 are the OpenVPN server and client configuration
  • Part 5 is some updates and closing remarks

FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter

  • The December 2013 semi-annual newsletter was sent out from the foundation
  • In the newsletter you will find the president\’s letter, articles on the current development projects they sponsor and reports from all the conferences and summits they sponsored
  • The president\’s letter alone is worth the read, really amazing
  • Really long, with lots of details and stories from the conferences and projects

Use of NetBSD with Marvell Kirkwood Processors

  • Article that gives a brief history of NetBSD and how to use it on an IP-Plug computer
  • The IP-Plug is a \”multi-functional mini-server was developed by Promwad engineers by the order of AK-Systems. It is designed for solving a wide range of tasks in IP networks and can perform the functions of a computer or a server. The IP-Plug is powered from a 220V network and has low power consumption, as well as a small size (which can be compared to the size of a mobile phone charger).\”
  • Really cool little NetBSD ARM project with lots of graphs, pictures and details

Experimenting with zero-copy network IO

  • Long blog post from Adrian Chad about zero-copy network IO on FreeBSD
  • Discusses the different OS\’ implementations and options
  • He\’s able to get 35 gbit/sec out of 70,000 active TCP sockets, but isn\’t stopping there
  • Tons of details, check the full post

Interview – Damien Miller – djm@openbsd.org / @damienmiller

Cryptography in OpenBSD and OpenSSH

Full disk encryption in FreeBSD & OpenBSD

  • Shows how to install both FreeBSD and OpenBSD with full disk encryption
  • We\’ll be using geli and bioctl and doing it step by step

News Roundup

OpenZFS office hours

  • Our buddy George Wilson sat down to take some ZFS questions from the community
  • You can see more info about it here

License summaries in pkgng

  • A discussion between Justin Sherill and some NYCBUG guys about license frameworks in pkgng
  • Similar to pkgsrc\’s \”ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES\” setting, pkgng could let the user decide which software licenses he wants to allow
  • Maybe we could get a \”pkg licenses\” command to display the license of all installed packages
  • Ok bapt, do it

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]]> Zettabytes for Days | BSD Now 14 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/47597/zettabytes-for-days-bsd-now-14/ Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:17:54 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=47597 We'll be giving you a crash course on becoming a ZFS wizard, as well as having a chat with George Wilson about the OpenZFS project's recent developments.

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This week is the long-awaited episode you\’ve been asking for! We\’ll be giving you a crash course on becoming a ZFS wizard, as well as having a chat with George Wilson about the OpenZFS project\’s recent developments. We have answers to your feedback emails and there are some great news items to get caught up on too, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

pkgng 1.2 released

  • bapt and bdrewery from the portmgr team released pkgng 1.2 final
  • New features include an improved build system, plugin improvements, new bootstrapping command, SRV mirror improvements, a new \”pkg config\” command, repo improvements, vuXML is now default, new fingerprint features and much more
  • Really simple to upgrade, check our pkgng tutorial if you want some easy instructions
  • It\’s also made its way into Dragonfly
  • See the show notes for the full list of new features and fixes

ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH

  • Damien Miller recently committed support for a new authenticated encryption cipher for OpenSSH, chacha20-poly1305
  • Long blog post explaining what these are and why we need them
  • This cipher combines two primitives: the ChaCha20 cipher and the Poly1305 MAC
  • RC4 is broken, we needed an authenticated encryption mode to complement AES-GCM that doesn\’t show the packet length in cleartext
  • Great explanation of the differences between EtM, MtE and EaM and their advantages
  • \”Both AES-GCM and the EtM MAC modes have a small downside though: because we no longer desire to decrypt the packet as we go, the packet length must be transmitted in plaintext. This unfortunately makes some forms of traffic analysis easier as the attacker can just read the packet lengths directly.\”

Is it time to dump Linux and move to BSD

  • ITworld did an article about switching from Linux to BSD
  • The author\’s interest was sparked from a review he was reading that said \”I feel the BSD communities, especially the FreeBSD-based projects, are where the interesting developments are happening these days. Over in FreeBSD land we have efficient PBI bundles, a mature advanced file system in the form of ZFS, new friendly and powerful system installers, a new package manager (pkgng), a powerful jail manager and there will soon be new virtualization technology coming with the release of FreeBSD 10.0\”
  • The whole article can be summed up with \”yes\” – ok, next story!

OpenZFS devsummit videos

  • Kicking off the ZFS episode, we\’ve got…
  • The OpenZFS developer summit discussion and presentation videos are up
  • People from various operating systems (FreeBSD, Mac OS X, illumos, etc.) were there to discuss ZFS on their platforms and the challenges they faced
  • Question and answer session from representatives of every OS – had a couple FreeBSD guys there including one from the foundation
  • Presentations both about ZFS itself and some hardware-based solutions for implementing ZFS in production
  • TONS of video, about 6 hours\’ worth
  • This leads us into our interview, which is…

Interview – George Wilson – Soft Eng at Delphix – wilzun@gmail.com / @zfsdude

  • KM: Can you tell us a little about yourself how you first got involved with ZFS?
  • AJ: Which features have you worked on in the past?
  • KM: Which platform do you personally use ZFS on, and for what tasks?
  • AJ: So what exactly is the OpenZFS project about?
  • KM: What do you hope the future of OpenZFS will bring?
  • AJ: When are we going to see native encryption?
  • KM: Are there some new features you\’re currently hacking on?
  • AJ: Is there anything specific you\’d like to see added to ZFS in the future?
  • KM: How did the developer summit and hackathon go?
  • AJ: Where can people go to get involved with development, and what\’s currently needed?
  • KM: Anything else you\’d like to mention?

Tutorial

A crash course on ZFS

  • Everything you need to know to get acquainted with the world\’s most powerful filesystem on the world\’s most powerful OS
  • Includes both beginner and advanced topics

News Roundup

ruBSD 2013 information

  • The ruBSD 2013 conference will take place on Saturday December 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM in Moscow, Russia
  • Speakers include three OpenBSD developers, Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer and Mike Belopuhov
  • Their talks are titled \”The bane of backwards compatibility,\” \”OpenBSD\’s pf: Design, Implementation and Future\” and \”OpenBSD: Where crypto is going?\”
  • No word on if there will be video recordings, but we\’ll let you know if that changes

DragonFly roadmap, post 3.6

  • John Marino posted a possible roadmap for DragonFly, now that they\’re past the 3.6 release
  • He wants some third party vendor software updated from very old versions (WPA supplicant, bmake, binutils)
  • Plans to replace GCC44 with Clang, but GCC47 will probably be the primary compiler still
  • Bring in fixes and new stuff from FreeBSD 10

BSDCan 2014 CFP

  • BSDCan 2014 will be held on May 16-17 in Ottawa, Canada
  • They\’re now accepting proposals for talks
  • If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal
  • We\’ll be getting lots of interviews there

casperd added to -CURRENT

  • \”It (and its services) will be responsible forgiving access to functionality that is not available in capability modes and box. The functionality can be precisely restricted.\”
  • Lists some sysctls that can be controlled

ZFS corruption bug fixed in -CURRENT

  • Just a quick follow-up from last week, the ZFS corruption bug in FreeBSD -CURRENT was very quickly fixed, before that episode was even uploaded

Feedback/Questions

  • Chris writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2JDWKjs7l
  • SW writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20BLqxTWD
  • Jason writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2939tUOf5
  • Clint writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21qKY6qIb
  • Chris writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20LWlmhoK
  • The written versions of the Tor, jails and OpenBSD router tutorials have gotten a few small improvements and fixes
  • The poudriere and pkgng tutorials have been updated for the new 1.2 repository syntax
  • All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv, including today\’s HUGE ZFS one
  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
  • If you have stories about how you or your company uses BSD, interesting things you\’ve done, crazy network stories or cool projects, send them to us!
  • Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (19:00 UTC)
  • Kris\’ Skype video was coming straight from PCBSD this week!

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]]> Space Station and Lizards | SciByte 19 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/13418/space-station-and-lizards-scibyte-19/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:35:47 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=13418 We take a look at the Space Station resupply mission, dinosaurs, Mars, Snake Oil, Asteroids, cryptography, and take another peek at what’s up in the sky.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to SciByte!

We take a look at the Space Station resupply mission, dinosaurs, Mars, Snake Oil, Asteroids, cryptography, and take another peek at what’s up in the sky this week.

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The Master Swtich: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Space Station Re-Supply Mission

— NEWS BYTE —

Migrating Dinosaurs

  • The low down
  • studying chemical variations in the teeth of the chewing-challenged sauropod
  • When animals drink water, the oxygen in that water gets incorporated into the blood stream and eventually into tooth enamel
  • water from a mountain tarn and water from a lowland swamp will have different amounts of a particular form, or isotope, of oxygen that has two extra neutrons in its nucleus
  • Significance
  • oxygen isotopes extracted from the tooth enamel of eight fossils remains from the western United States, and then compared the enamel isotope levels to those of minerals found in nearby sediments
  • isotopic variation suggests, that they were moving around
  • Multimedia
  • By comparing the levels of a chemical tracer found in the enamel of sauropod teeth
  • Social Media
  • Twitter account for Colorado College @ColoradoCollege
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Giant dinosaurs may have migrated
Mars feels the Suns Wrath

Snake Oil
  • The low down
  • snakes naturally enlarge their own hearts by some 40 percent in two to three days after eating one of their huge but rare meals
  • A mix of compounds called fatty acids identified in pythons can spur an exercise-like boost in the size of mouse hearts
  • three fatty acids identified in the blood of Burmese pythons boosted the mass of a heart chamber in lab mice by 10 percent in just a week
  • Significance
  • Enlarging heart tissue can be a danger sign for humans
  • the growth seen in the mice looks more like an athlete’s healthful heart growth than a heart disease patient’s worrisome one
  • These ubiquitous compounds perform a variety of functions in reptiles and humans alike. Just the right mix of three of them — myristic, palmitic and palmitoleic acid — turns out to trigger a quick upsizing in heart muscle cells
  • many questions remain about how the snakes’ fatty acids actually work to trigger heart muscle cells to bulge
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Python’s heart-restoring elixir works in mice
Story of a Molten Asteroid

  • The low down
  • Lutetia and its asteroid cousins are thought to be relics from the early solar system
  • rocky fossils that have recorded a history of the solar system’s early days in their pits and fractures
  • In July 2010, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft flew within 3,200 kilometers of Lutetia, peered at the asteroid and attempted to read its stony story.
  • Images from the OSIRIS camera reveal that parts of Lutetia’s surface are around 3.6 billion years old. Other parts are young by astronomical standards, at 50–80 million years old.
  • Astronomers estimate the age of airless planets, moons, and asteroids by counting craters.
  • Lutetia’s weak gravity tugged on Rosetta. The slight change in Rosetta’s path was reflected in radio signals received back at Earth
  • Significance
  • Scientists now think it is a leftover planetary seed, booted into the main belt
  • Lutetia turns out to have one of the highest densities of any known asteroid: 3400 kg per cubic metre.
  • The density implies that Lutetia contains significant quantities of iron, but not necessarily in a fully formed core.
  • The only explanation appears to be that Lutetia was subjected to some internal heating early in its history but did not melt completely and so did not end up with a well-defined iron core.
  • Multimedia
  • ESA Rosetta Images of Lutetia
  • ESA Rosetta Images of Lutetia
  • Social Media
  • Twitter account for ESA Science Team @esascience
  • Twitter Results for [#Lutetia](https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23Lutetia)
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Chronicles of Lutetia
  • Asteroid Lutetia: postcard from the past @ ESA
Cracking a 250 year old puzzle

SCIENCE CALENDER

Looking back this week
  • Nov 06, 1572 – 439 years ago : Tycho’s Supernova – A supernova was first noted in the W-shaped constellation of Cassiopeia but was seen by many observers throughout Europe and in the Far East. For two weeks it was brighter than any other star in the sky and visible in daytime. By month’s end, it began to fade and change colour, from bright white to yellow and orange to faint reddish light. It was visible to the naked eye for about 16 months
  • Nov 08, 1895 – 116 years ago : X-rays – Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at Würzburg University
  • Nov 07, 1908 – 103 years ago : Single atom – Prof. Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter
  • Nov 07, 1918 – 93 years ago : Goddard rocket – Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform,. Goddard began work for the Army in 1917 to design rockets to aid in the war effort.
  • Nov 04–05, 1922 – 89 years ago : Tutankhamen’s tomb – The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings where the English archaeologist Howard Carter had been making extended excavations. One of Carter’s labourers stumbled upon a stone step, the first step in a sunken stairway that ran down into the rock. Howard Carter excavated a further 11 steps and exposed a large part of a plastered and sealed doorway to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. The tomb was the most complete ancient Egyptian royal tomb ever found.
  • Nov 07, 1940 – 71 years ago : Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse – at approximately 11:00 am, the first Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations. Situated on the Tacoma Narrows in Puget Sound, near the city of Tacoma, Washington, the bridge had only been open for traffic a few months. Video of Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse “Gallopin’ Gertie”
  • Nov 02, 1947 – 64 years ago : Spruce Goose – Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, known as the Spruce Goose on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California. It was the first test of a U.S. plane with eight engines. Wing span was 319 feet, 11 inches. Originally conceived by Henry J. Kaiser, a steelmaker and builder of Liberty ships, the aircraft was designed and constructed by Hughes and his staff. The original proposal for the enormous, 400,000-pound wooden flying boat, with its spectacular 320-foot wingspan, came from the U.S. government in 1942. The entire airframe and surface structures are composed of laminated wood (primarily birch, not spruce).
  • Nov 03, 1957 – 54 years ago : Laika – Sputnik 2 was launched, with the first live animal sent into space – a Siberian husky dog, Laika (“barker” in Russian). By design, the craft which was built in only 4 weeks. Biological data, the first data of its kind, was transmitted back to Earth while she lived. The data showed scientists how Laika was adapting to space – information important to the imminent planned manned missions. The 508-kg satellite remained in orbit 162 days. The true cause and time of Laika’s death was not made public until 2002, Laika likely died within hours after launch from overheating.
  • Nov 05, 1963 – 48 years ago : Vikings in America – Archaeologists found Viking ruins in Newfoundland predating Columbus by 500 years. Leif Ericson, Icelandic explorer, second son of Eric the Red, is believed by most historians to have been the first European to reach the North American mainland.
Looking up this week

  • You might have seen …

  • A small comet dove into the sun during the late hours of Oct. 30th. Watch the movie to see what SOHO saw

  • Keep an eye out for …

  • Wednesday, Nov. 2 : 1st Quarter Moon

  • Thursday, Nov. 3 : Look lower left of the Moon this evening, by two or three fist-widths at arm’s length, for Fomalhaut, the Autumn Star.

  • Friday, Nov. 4 : Jupiter’s Great Red Spot should be crossing the planet’s central meridian.

  • Sat November 5, 2011 : The planet Saturn is quite low in the east at first light. It looks like a golden star, with the true star Spica to its lower right. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is visible through modest telescopes as a tiny “star” quite near Saturn.

  • Mars, the red planet, is a morning object among the stars of Leo during November

  • In the Southern Hemisphere : Mercury and Venus get together in the evening sky

  • Early November : The Taurids meteor shower is active in early November and although rates are not high with no well-defined peak, around five meteors per hour can be expected with hopefully some unusually bright and slow moving events. Although Eastern Europe and the Middle East are most favoured, it is essential that observers head out as soon as the Sun is a few degrees below the horizon also be aware you will

  • Saturday, Nov. 5 : Daylight-saving time ends (for most of North America) at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. Clocks “fall back” an hour.

  • More on whats in the sky this week

  • Sky&Telescope

  • AstronomyNow

  • SpaceWeather.com

  • HeavensAbove

  • StarDate.org

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