Collaborate Disseminate
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: An FBI agent has brought up an interesting question about the nature of digital evidence: Does decrypting encrypted data “fundamentally alter” it, therefore contaminating it as forensic evidence? According to a he… Continue reading FBI Agent: Decrypting Data ‘Fundamentally Alters’ Evidence
Reader msm1267 writes: The defunct xDedic marketplace has resurfaced again, this time on a Tor network domain. The marketplace provides a platform for buying and selling of hacked servers. Its original open web domain, xdedic[,]biz, had disappeared sho… Continue reading XDedic, Underground Market For Hacked Servers, Resurfaces On Tor Domain
It’s official. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday endorsed former presidential rival Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee ahead of the party’s July convention. Sanders said Clinton will make an outstanding president and that he is proud to sta… Continue reading Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton
Mary Jo Foley, reporting for ZDNet: Microsoft plans to make its recently renamed Windows 10 Enterprise product available as a subscription for $7 per user per month, or $84 per year. Microsoft took the wraps off the pricing of one of the two renamed ve… Continue reading Microsoft Announces Surface as a Service, Windows 10 Enterprise E3 for $7 Per User Per Month
dcblogs writes: Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Monday criticized the replacement of U.S. IT workers with foreign labor but stopped short of offering a plan to fix it. In a videotaped interview with Vox, Clinton app… Continue reading Clinton: It’s ‘Heartbreaking’ When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements
PC shipments are seeing a welcome growth in the United States. The industry, which has seen a continual decline in the sales in the past few consecutive quarters, is now seemingly gaining some momentum in the United States, according to independent fin… Continue reading PC Shipments Return To Growth In the US
Last week a security researcher noted that Pokemon Go’s iOS app — for whatever reason — was gleaning complete hold of one’s Google account. But is that really the case? Gizmodo contacted Adam Reeve, the security researcher in question (who also happe… Continue reading Pokemon Go Was Never Able To Read Your Email
Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica: Over the past few months, a cluster of megabreaches has dumped account credentials for a mind-boggling 642 million accounts into the public domain, where they can then be used to compromise other accounts that ar… Continue reading Password Reuse Tool Makes It Easy To ID Vulnerable Accounts On Other Sites
Motherboard has an article in which it argues that PC gaming is still way too hard. The author of the article claims that for one to build a gaming PC, they need an “unreasonable” amount of disposable income, and also have an unreasonable amount of tim… Continue reading PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard
Roger Cheng, reporting for CNET: The reality of 5G, wireless connectivity that’s faster than our speediest home internet service, is years away. But that isn’t stopping Verizon from making its presence felt now. The nation’s largest wireless carrier sa… Continue reading Verizon Completes Its Radio Specs for 5G, Pushing Its Agenda For Global Standard Down the Line