Collaborate Disseminate
Of all the stories we’d expect to hit our little corner of the world, we never thought that the seedy doings of a now-deceased accused pedophile billionaire would have impacted the intellectual home of the open-source software movement. But it did, and this week Richard Stallman resigned from the Computer …read more
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group has agreed to pay damages to Paul McCartney’s ex as part of the massive phone-hacking scandal by UK tabloids. Continue reading Heather Mills Gets An Apology and ‘Substantial’ Settlement in Spyware Case
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group has agreed to pay damages to Paul McCartney’s ex as part of the massive phone-hacking scandal by UK tabloids. Continue reading Heather Mills Gets An Apology and ‘Substantial’ Settlement in Spyware Case
Two well-funded cybersecurity firms jumped into a public relations fight Wednesday after one alleged that the other had allowed third parties to profit off leaked sensitive customer data. Direct Defense President Jim Broome wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that his firm had found evidence of improper conduct on the part of Carbon Black, a seller of endpoint security software products. Direct Defense, a managed and full service provider of security offerings, said it found an apparent flaw in the architecture of a popular Carbon Black product named Cb Response. This flaw allegedly allowed for a leak of sensitive customer information onto multi-scanning services like VirusTotal, a popular malware repository. The inadvertently leaked data, according to Broome, could be resold by third parties. “Files uploaded by Cb Response customers first go to Carbon Black (or their local Carbon Black server instance), but then are immediately forwarded to a cloud-based […]
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