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The New Payphone | Tech Talk Today 57

chris — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:36:21 +0000

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Gmail passwords may have been leaked, but there is some debate as to how bad the damage is. Google Voice gets rolled into Hangouts & we take a look at the results from “Internet Slowdown Day”.

Plus our thoughts on mobile payments, a great deal for Linux users & more!

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5 Million Gmail Usernames and Passwords Leaked

In what appears to be an unknown attack, hackers have dumped over 5,000,000 valid gmail username and passwords on the Internet early Wednesday morning.

Unknown hackers have leaked over five million valid credentials pertaining to Google Mail logins early this morning. The random dump of passwords first appeared on reddit’s netsec section linking to the another website hosting the leaked gmail accounts.

The .txt file of all leaked gmail usernames was found on BitCoin security (forum in Russian), where the leak is believed to be first offloaded. The file of leaked emails does not contain any passwords or other sensitive information, only full gmail email addresses.

As the leak was posted only hours ago, Reddit users are warning each other not to enter any email username or password combinations into any websites “to check if your password is secure.” It appears scams are already appearing or Reddit users are getting ready for the scams to come.

Google Says No Compromise

“The security of our users’ information is a top priority for us,” a Google spokesperson told TNW. “We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that accounts may have been, we take steps to help those users secure their accounts.”

Next, since the posting, the forum administrators have purged the passwords from the text file in question, leaving only the logins. Furthermore, tvskit, the forum user who published the file, claimed that some 60 percent of the passwords were valid.

Google Voice Integration Is Currently Rolling Out In Hangouts

Google Voice is finally being integrated into Hangouts, because God knows Hangouts needed to be even more confusing. You can enable Voice SMS and voicemail via a popup in the conversation list, so check the app. If you still don’t see it, hang on. It’s still rolling out.

“Internet Slowdown Day” sends over 111,000* new comments on net neutrality to FCC

The effort appears to have made a difference: According to the FCC*, by 6 PM ET the agency saw 111,449 new public comments added to the already record-setting total, with some 41,173 filed into the 14-28 docket of the FCC’s website since and another 70,286 sent to the openinternet@fcc.gov inbox, setting a new high water mark of some 1,515,144 to date, with more yet to come. As reported by Mike Masnick, citing ThinkProgress, the Internet slowdown generated 1000 calls per minute to Congress. *Update: Fight for the Future claims that more than 500,000 comments have been submitted through Battleforthenet.com and that the FCC hasn’t caught up. According to the nonprofit, “this happened during our last big push too when their site crashed. We are storing comments and will deliver all.”

IDG shutters Macworld Magazine, much of the editorial staff let go | 9to5Mac

International Data Group (IDG) is shutting down Macworld Magazine, the long time Apple periodical according to tweets by staff and conversations I’ve had with personnel.

The Macworld.com website will remain open [although as a shell of its former self -ed] with a reduced staff according to Dan Miller (editor), who himself is leaving in a month.

Why pay with your phone? : techtalktoday

Floppy-Bacon Writes

Is payment the stores in the US really as bad as Apple’s presentation made it look? When I pay with my debit card (or credit card), I don’t hand it to the cashier. I insert it into a small device and enter my 4-digit PIN code; fast and secure. I do not need to identify my self, I do not any detail about my card and I do not have 15 cards in my wallet or however many cards she had in the video. I know that I hate technology, but do you really want to pay with your phone rather than just fix the payment system to how it works elsewhere? For the time being you still need to have your wallet with your for all the other stuff. (And taking my phone with me with just be extra cumbersome.)

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Winklevoss Woes | Plan B 14

chris — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:00:05 +0000

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The media has Bitcoin in it’s sights this week as they take a good laugh at the Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin Fund plans. But are the eye-rolls justified? We’ll dig in.

Plus the big change up at the Bitcoin Foundation, darknet Bitcoin exchanges, the new generation of merchants accepting Bitcoin, your emails and more!

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New Executive Director of Bitcoin Foundation

Jon Matonis Named New Executive Director of Bitcoin Foundation | Bitcoin MagazineBitcoin Magazine

Jon Matonis has served as an advocate for the Bitcoin currency and a source of insight for cryptocurrencies and general matters of finance and politics. Prior to assuming his position as Executive Director, Jon Matonis served on the Board of Directors for the Bitcoin Foundation. He currently is a regular contributor to Forbes and is the editor of The Monetary Future economics blog and has not only a passion for but understanding of the ins and outs of the Bitcoin currency.

Jon serves as a member of the Bitcoin Magazine Editorial Board and has contributed articles to the print magazine and website. Prior to getting heavily involved in the Bitcoin currency, Jon served as the CEO of Hushmail and Chief FX Dealer at Visa. Prior to accepting his new appointment of Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Jon was a board member holding the officer role of board secretary.

One of my primary near-term objectives for the Foundation is to
become more inclusive of the various constituencies within the global
bitcoin community.

This will involve being more responsive to and
communicative with member requests. It will also involve being more open
to internationalization.

Currently, 60% of the Foundation\’s membership
is non-US based and we need to do a better job behaving like a global
organization. To this end, we will hold the next Bitcoin conference
outside of the United States and we will sign on local Foundation
chapters in several countries where interested parties have taken the
lead on expanding the principles of Bitcoin in their region.

Flattr Adds Bitcoin Support

Adding Bitcoin support

Apparently the great community around Bitcoins wants us to add Bitcoin funding, the nagging has sometimes been skilled like that of an old lady.

As you asked for it. You got it! We are happy to tell you that you can now fund your account with Bitcoins. Just pick Bitcoin on the \”Add funds\” page.

Butterfly Labs Disappoints Again

Butterfly Labs Still Shipping Day 1 Jalapeno Orders

We are into September 20, 2012 with Jalapeno orders. Not all through that date have shipped, however.

TOR ATM/Hidden Exchanges Set to Flourish

Winklevoss Twins Stirring it Up

Winklevoss’ ETF product draws laughs for a reason | Business – The News Tribune

Over the years, fund industry watchers have laughed about a lot of wild investment ideas.

So when the fund observers started laughing recently after seeing the registration papers for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust — a new exchange-traded product that faces a lengthy vetting process from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — the question was which laugh, first or last, will be the better one here, and who will get the final guffaw.

A Bitcoin ETF Is A Vital Step Towards Market Maturity – The Genesis Block

Regardless of your view on bitcoin as an investment, the product proposed by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss would give a new world of potential investors the ability to make that decision for themselves — exactly as an ETF is intended to do.

Bitcoin Pick

NZB Finder | Pro Account via Bitcoin Funding

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BETA | Plan B 1

chris — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:15:08 +0000

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From the trenches of discount Wednesday, we launch the beta of our new show: Plan B. We look at the media’s slowly improving bitcoin coverage, discuss the major selloff today, and why people shouldn’t fixate on the price.

Plus: the Mt. Gox problem that faces the bitcoin community, and how it gets gamed.

Then a look at the self appointed “face of bitcoin” Max Keiser and the big money he’s trying to get involved in bitcoin speculation, and brief Litecoin chat…

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Through the lens of the ever increasing media coverage of Bitcoin, we\’ll explain some of the reasons we find bitcoin fascinating. And the fundamentals we believe show bitcoin\’s about to see an availing of new uses and speculators.

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Encryption Best Practices | TechSNAP 10

chris — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:00:03 +0000

Coming up on this episode of TechSNAP:

We follow up on last week’s bitcoin coverage with scandal that has a $500k price tag.

Then – We launch into your questions, and cover encryption best practices to keep your data safe!

Plus – We take our first live war story call, all that and more on this week’s TechSNAP!

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Topic: Bitcoin wallet stolen (25,000 coins worth ~$500,000 USD)

Bitcoin wallets work by using public/private key pairs
Each wallet, by default, has 100 keys, and you allocate them as needed, and then new ones are generated so that you always have 100 ready for use
If someone manages to steal your wallet.dat file, they have the private keys for your addresses that contain the coins, and they can cryptographically sign a transaction using that private key, and therefore transfer the coins
User who had their coins stolen admits that they found spyware/malware on their computer. Possibly also a trojan
The attack also accessed the users account at a mining pool, and changed the destination address for payouts (some pools off the option to lock this address so that i can never be changed)
Bitcoin transactions are irreversible and there is no central authority to settle disputes or forcibly undo a transaction (This is both a feature and a flaw, it is a trade off to allows BTC transactions to avoid many forms of interference)

How to protect your wallet file:

Use separate wallet files, and don’t keep all of your money in one place.
Backup your wallet file regularly. The wallet file contains the private keys that actually control the coins, without them, you cannot transfer the coins. If you totally lose your wallet file without a backup, those coins are lost to everyone forever.
Your backups of your wallet file must be recent, because of the ‘100 key buffer’, that your wallet file has, if your backup is more than 100 transactions old, it will not contain the keys used for the newer transactions, and you will not be able to control those coins. Make sure you backup your wallet file on a regular basis. You can also adjust the configuration of your client to created a larger key buffer.
Your wallet file is the same as your GPG key ring, protect it as best you can. It should be stored in an encrypted volume (like a TrueCrypt mount or a GBDE file system) . It might also be advisable to run the bitcoin client as a dedicated user with much more locked down permissions on your machine.
As we learned from this incident, and the banking trojan news last week, it is imperative that you ensure that no one is logging your keystrokes, sniffing your traffic, or remotely controlling your machine (a remote control trojan such as the ZeuS banking worm, would be able to access your truecrypt partition when you mount it to use your bitcoin wallet)

mybitcoin.com – The bitcoin bank Chris is “trying”.

BITCOIN BLASTER:

– Our current Mining efforts –

Allan:
It all started with the dual GPUs in my gaming machine and the spare cycles on some of my servers, but CPUs and older nVidia cards were just not worth the power and effort with the higher difficulty.

So, a two friends and I have built a dedicated mining rig (2×5870, 1×6950) that is doing over 1100 Mh/s with a bit of overclocking. Sadly, the difficulty jump came only a few hours after we got the machine online, and it cut the profitability down. We are looking at another more expensive machine, but this will mean a longer wait for ROI.

Chris:
I’m pushing about 500 – 600 Mh/s during the day, nearing 810 MH/s at night. I plan to add two more moderately powerful ATI cards in the next week.

I bought my first physical good, a video card to mine some more. Using a “service” to convert bitcoins to Amazon gift-cards: https://www.bitcoinredemption.com/

FEEDBACK:

Q: (Michal) Is there a way for me to tell if my machine has been compromised while I was asleep?
A: Yes, using an application such as Tripware, or the Verification system in some backup software (Bacula, etc), allows you to detect which files have been changed since the last time the tool was run (ie, you run it daily). This way, when an important system file is changed, you are notified, if you did not cause this change (OS or package update/install), then it is possible someone has successfully compromised your system and modified important system files.

Q: (Dale) Is continuing to use Dropbox safe if i use TrueCrypt to encrypt my files before uploading them?
A: While it is theoretically safe to store your encrypted files in dropbox, because of the way dropbox works (copy on write deduplication), you would have to reupload the entire TrueCrypt volume every time you changed a file (because of the nature of the encryption, the changes to the encrypted volume will also be bigger). Unless you only store some very small files, or are using separate TrueCrypt volumes for each file you are storing, this will quickly get unwieldy and slow.

Q: (Michal) How can I store my users’ files such that they are encrypted with the users’ password, but can still be recovered if the password is lost/forgotten
A: The short answer is that you cannot. Strong cryptography does not have any recovery method. If you want the files to be truly secure, then they need to be able to be accessed by only a single key, and if that key is lost, the files are lost. The only real option is to encrypt the files to two different keys, one of the user, and one of the ‘Recovery Agent’, the person responsible for decrypting the files if the user loses their key. This lowers the security of the encrypted files, because the Recovery Agent can decrypt the files without the users’ permission.

Q: (Justin) How secure is it to enable to ‘text a password reset token to your mobile phone’ in gmail?
A: Mostly that depends on how secure your phone is. Does it display part of the text message when it comes in? How quickly does your phone lock it self when it is inactive. Can your unlock code be reset? How many other people have your unlock code? How easily can the unlock code be defeated? It is really up to you to decide how secure you feel your phone is. I for one, just don’t lose my passwords :p

Q: (brotherlu) What is the difference between a NAS and a SAN. Also in which environments would you use each.
A: a NAS (Network Attached Storage) is a dedicated storage device that you connect to your network. a SAN (Storage Area Network) is a dedicated network for storage devices. Usually SANs are much higher performance and sometimes use technologies other than ethernet. Really, it depends how much performance you need, SANs are much more expensive.

Grab bag bonus links:
Senate Bill Requires Permission to Collect & Share Location Data
LulzSec’s busy week:
Senate website, CIA.gov hacked. LulzSec claims responsibility.
LulzSec opens hack request line
LulzSec takes Eve Online and Minecraft offline
Ex-Googler Calls Out Google Infrastructure as Obsolete
Sophisticated Cyberattack Is Reported by the I.M.F.

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