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* Ghost bug in PHP could affect millions of servers


* Flaw is in glibc, which is extensively by all Linux distributions
* Patch and reboot using yum or aptitude

* The US Army Released DShell, a malware forensics tool


* This is an interesting trend where we see tons of formerly secret groups flock to Github. Great to see

* Reddit released its first transparency report last week


* Says it received 55 requests for user information
* Says it complied with 64% of state and federal requests
* Says it received 218 requests for content removal, and complied with 31 percent of those
* I am pleased to see them releasing these numbers, and I hope more organizations do the same

* The GHCQ was using a program called BADASS to collect data leaked by games such as Angry Birds


* Luckily it only affected the 11 people still playing that game

* Russian dating site, Topface, got hacked for 20 million usernames
* The FBI busted up a Tom Clancy book plot in New York City


* The plan was to get information about wall street trading algorithms and hopefully destabilize the markets
* All they managed to do was embarrass themselves by commenting on how they couldn’t recruit young women

* China is demanding to be able to build backdoors into any code sold to its banking sector


* Some people call this news, but with China we just call this Wednesday

* Apple released a Yosemite update that fixed Thunderstrike, among other things
* Anonymous and Lizard Squad are going after each other


* Anonymous is the famous hacking group known for all sorts of things
* Lizard Squad is known for taking down the XBox and Playstation networks around Christmas time
* Anonymous DDoS’d the Lizard Squad website, and then Twitter suspended a couple of their handles
* Interesting to see these groups going after each other

* BMW and the internet of things is in the news, with BMW owners receiving an automatic push to around 2 million cars


* A vulnerability was present that could allow attacks to spoof cell towers and possibly control onboard systems
* BMW pushed a patch that ensures all such communications go over HTTPS
* It’s interesting that, like printers, cars are likely to become a primary IoT platform just because there are so many of them
* The key is to figure out what normal things exist in the world today en mass, and then imagine those things being connected
* Printers, cars, furniture, clothing, etc. It’s the regular stuff that makes it interesting because of how much attack surface they represent, and how prevalent the perspective they’ll offer into our daily lives



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* Intro is from Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.

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