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Sony’s the Bomb | Tech Talk Today 48

chris — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:47:34 +0000

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Sony is under attack again, but this time the hackers have taken it to the physical world. Another Android flaw is getting over hyped, Windows 9 gets a release date, the most popular open source cloud projects & more!

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Sony PlayStation Network taken down by attack

Sony Corp said on Sunday its PlayStation Network was taken down by a denial of service-style attack and the FBI was investigating the diversion of a flight carrying a top Sony executive amid reports of a claim that explosives were on board.

The company said in a posting on its PlayStation blog that no personal information of the network was accessed in the attack, which overwhelmed the system with heavy traffic.

Plane carrying Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley was diverted on Sunday, Smedley said in a post on microblogging site Twitter.

A group called Lizard Squad sent a message through its Twitter account to American Airlines saying Smedley’s flight had explosives on board, according to a report by USA Today. The group also used Twitter to claim credit for the network attack, the newspaper said.

USA Today reported that the Dallas/Fort Worth flight to San Diego was diverted and landed safely in Phoenix.

A PlayStation spokeswoman in the United States said the diverted flight was being handled by the FBI and had no comment.

Android attack improves timing, allows data theft | Ars Technica

According to a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of California at Riverside.

The attack, known as a user interface (UI) inference attack, makes use of the design of programming frameworks that share memory, allowing one application to gather information about the state of other applications. The information can be gathered without any special Android permissions or by grabbing screen pixels, according to a paper presented at the USENIX Security Conference on Friday.

The technique gives attackers the ability to infer the state of a targeted application, enabling more convincing attacks. If malware knows that the targeted user has just clicked on a “login” button, then it can throw up a dialog box asking for a username and password. If the malware can infer that a user is about to take a picture of a check or sensitive document, it can quickly take a second picture.

An attack application must be running in the background, where it can determine the foreground activity of a targeted app with 80 to 90 percent accuracy in most applications, the researchers said. The technique detects transitions in the UI state of the targeted app and then uses a signature to identify the new state.

In videos demonstrating the UI inference attack, the research group showed the malicious software stealing a username and password from the H&R Block application, copying an image of a check taken by the Chase Bank application, and stealing credit-card information from the NewEgg store.

“By design, Android allows apps to be preempted or hijacked,” Qian said in a statement. “But the thing is you have to do it at the right time so the user doesn’t notice. We do that and that’s what makes our attack unique.”

Because the attack does not focus on any specific vulnerability in the operating system, hardening the software to attack will be difficult, according to the paper.

While the researchers focused on the Android operating system, the operating-system architecture that they exploit is present on most other major OSes, including MacOS X, iOS and Windows, the paper stated.

“We believe our attack on Android is likely to be generalizable to other platforms,” the paper stated.

Cyber security experts find 92 percent successful Gmail hack- The Inquirer

Most smartphone users download zero apps per month

Mobile apps have skyrocketed in popularity and utility since Apple introduced the iPhone App Store in the summer of 2008. Apps now represent 52% of time spent with digital media in the US, according to comScore, up from 40% in early 2013. Apple boasted 75 billion all-time App Store downloads at its developers conference in June, and followed up by declaring July the best month ever for App Store revenue, with a record number of people downloading apps.

Yet most US smartphone owners download zero apps in a typical month, according to comScore’s new mobile app report.

Only about one-third of smartphone owners download any apps in an average month, with the bulk of those downloading one to three apps. The top 7% of smartphone owners account for “nearly half of all download activity in a given month,” comScore reports.

Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th | The Verge

Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th to detail upcoming changes to Windows as part of a release codenamed “Threshold.” This date may change, but the Threshold version of Windows is currently in development and Microsoft plans to release a preview version of what will likely be named Windows 9 to developers on September 30th or shortly afterwards. The date follows recent reports from ZDNet that suggested Microsoft is planning to release a preview version of Windows 9 in late September or early October.

Most popular open-source cloud projects of 2014 | ZDNet

At CloudOpen, a Linux Foundation tradeshow held in conjunction with LinuxCon, the Foundation announced that an online survey of open-source cloud professionals found OpenStack to be the most popular overall project.

That wasn’t surprising. Although OpenStack is only four years old, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud project is very popular with support from such industry giants HP, Red Hat, and VMware. What was somewhat surprising was that number two was Docker, the just-over-a-year old container technology.

Behind those two, you’ll find KVM, the x86 virtualization technology that’s recently been ported to Power; CloudStack, one of the older open-source IaaS cloud projects; and Ceph, the open-source, software-defined storage stack.

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Best of LinuxCon 2014 | LAS 327

chris — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:06:04 +0000

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LinuxCon 2014 just wrapped up and we have five great interviews from the floor, cover some of the best talks, and more.

Plus the big guy who’s still pulling for Desktop Linux, the greatly exaggerated Munich situation…

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LinuxCon Day 1: Open Source is Eating the World | Open Source Today

Wednesday was the first day of LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America 2014 in Chicago. The event began with a keynote speech from Jim Zemlin on the State of Linux where he touched on a wide range of new developments and issues in the Linux Industry. He opened his keynote by stating “Linux Represents one of the greatest shared technology investments in the history of computing.” A testament to the adoption of Linux in nearly every single modern industry.

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Cumulus Networks | Linux Network OS

The first full-featured Linux distribution for networking hardware. Customers to break free of proprietary, integrated networking gear, and realize the advantages of the software defined data center.

IUS Community Project 0.1 documentation

The IUS Community Project is a brain child of the RPM Development Team at
Rackspace Hosting. Since 2006, we have provided and maintain packages for
the latest versions of PHP/MySQL and other common software on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, because a lot of our customers strongly demand it. Internally
we maintain a number of package sets for an audience of thousands of production
servers. Until now, these packages have only been available internally to
Rackspace customers. After a while we started thinking: Why not make this
available publicly for everyone to benefit?

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The STACK Box – A Smart Home Controller by Cloud Media — Kickstarter

A smart home controller that speaks to all your smart devices and stacks all your apps.

Home automation hub runs Linux, offers cloud services

The 110 x 110mm cube runs on an ARM11 Cavium processor clocked at 640MHz, probably one of Cavium’s Econa SoCs. The Stack Box also provides 256MB DDR3 RAM, 512MB flash, and an SD slot.

Desktop Ap Pick

Shutter 0.93 released

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website — apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Shutter is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.

Shutter Dropbox Integration Improved in Latest Release

Shutter 0.93 — which comes just over a week after the previous update — comes with an all-new plugin for popular cloud storage service Dropbox — one that improves authentication and fixes issues with public link creation.

Weekly Spotlight

HandBrake Converter 0.10 (Beta) Available For Ubuntu

Updated to GTK3
VP8 Support (Available in MKV files only.)
Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.

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Ting FTW

Linux Founder Linus Torvalds ‘Still Wants the Desktop’

Linus asked where Linux has left to go, now that it’s won so much

Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman moderated the discussion and commented that Linux already runs everywhere. He asked Torvalds where he thinks Linux should go next. “I still want the desktop,” Torvalds said as the audience erupted into boisterous applause.

The challenge on the desktop is not a kernel problem, Torvalds said. “It’s a whole infrastructure problem. I think we’ll get there one day.”

Ditching Linux for Windows? The truth isn’t that simple, says Munich

No says the council, in spite of numerous reports to the contrary. Suggestions the council has decided to back away from Linux are wrong, according to council spokesman Stefan Hauf.

He said the council’s recently elected mayor Dieter Reiter has instead simply commissioned a report into the future IT system for the council.

“The new mayor has asked the administration to gather the facts so we can decide and make a proposal for the city council how to proceed in future,” he said.

“Not only for Limux but for all of IT. It’s about the organisation, the costs, performance and the useability and satisfaction of the users.”

The study, being conducted by internal IT staff at the council, will consider which operating systems and software packages – both proprietary and open source – would best satisfy this criteria. The study is not, as has been reported, solely focused around the question of whether to drop Limux and move back to Windows, he said.

Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access to Free Software

Fresh on the heels of the entire Munich and Linux debacle, another story involving Microsoft and free software has popped up across the world, in Chile. A prolific magazine from the South American country says that the powerful Microsoft lobby managed to turn around a law that would allow the authorities to use free software.

Microsoft, Chile y el poder del dinero

Linux Foundation Debuts Linux Certification Effort

The Linux Foundation announced today its first Linux certifications for IT professionals. The new certifications were announced at the LinuxCon conference.

The two new designations are the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE).

The new certifications mark the first time the Linux Foundation itself has offered formal certification.

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Ubuntu 11.10 Preview | LAS | s18e06

chris — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:15:31 +0000

The security breach that rocked Linux to it’s core has expanded, and we cover the breaking details.

Then – It’s our preview look at Ubuntu 11.10. Are they are on the right course? Or is this release turning into another disaster? We find out!

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