ACLU lawsuit challenges US computer hacking law

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging a 30-year-old hacking-crimes law, with the civil liberties group saying the law inhibits research about online discrimination.The ACLU on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on behalf of a group of academic researchers, computer scientists, and journalists. The CFAA limits online research because of its "overbroad criminal prohibitions," the ACLU said.The group of plaintiffs in the lawsuit want to investigate online discrimination in areas like housing and employment, "but they often can't," the ACLU said in a blog post. Courts have interpreted a provision of the CFAA prohibiting people from exceeding authorized access to a computer to include violations of website terms of service, the ACLU said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: The great DevOps train wreck

Well, I see one coming, and I’m raising the alarm. Based on the conversations I’m hearing, it’s becoming dangerously fashionable to say: “All the interesting technology problems in DevOps are solved. We have Docker. We have Kubernetes. We have OpenStack. They’re stable, and they’re widely deployed. All that’s left to do is process transformation, teaching dullard enterprise IT teams how to consume the new-new IT.” -The New Stack

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Delivering a Seamless Guest Experience

Author: Diana Shtil, Product Marketing Manager The Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC) 2016 took place in New Orleans last week, bringing together over 300 companies who all specialize in products, services, and solutions for the hospitality industry. From...

DockerCon 2016: Part 1 of Top 10 Videos

DockerCon 2016 was packed lots with great conference sessions! Attendees enjoyed the variety of topics in the agenda including advanced technical deep dives in the Black Belt track and practical applications of Docker in the Use Case track.

Through the mobile app (powered by Docker of course!), DockerCon 2016 attendees voted on their favorite sessions at the conference. Here are 5 of the top 10 highest rated sessions at DockerCon 2016: Continue reading

Mapping firm invites auto industry to improve spec for sharing vehicle sensor data

A key specification for exchanging sensor data between vehicles has found a new sponsor, in a move that may help future drivers avoid dangers before they see them.New vehicles are increasingly laden with sensors -- accelerometers, thermometers, radar and lidar (light detection and range) -- and the best of them can use the streams of incoming data to warn of or even avoid hazards such as ice or obstacles.But what if they could share information about changes to a road since the map was last updated or even warn one another of a stopped vehicle hidden by a blind curve? Vehicles might then be able to choose more efficient routes or avoid the need for sudden braking.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Wormable flaws in Symantec products expose millions of computers to hacking

A Google security researcher has found high severity vulnerabilities in enterprise and consumer products from antivirus vendor Symantec that could be easily be exploited by hackers to take control of computers.Symantec released patches for the affected products, but while some products were updated automatically, some affected enterprise products could require manual intervention.The flaws were found by Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google's Project Zero team who has found similar vulnerabilities in antivirus products from other vendors. They highlight the poor state of software security in the antivirus world, something that has been noted by researchers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Wormable flaws in Symantec products expose millions of computers to hacking

A Google security researcher has found high severity vulnerabilities in enterprise and consumer products from antivirus vendor Symantec that could be easily be exploited by hackers to take control of computers.Symantec released patches for the affected products, but while some products were updated automatically, some affected enterprise products could require manual intervention.The flaws were found by Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google's Project Zero team who has found similar vulnerabilities in antivirus products from other vendors. They highlight the poor state of software security in the antivirus world, something that has been noted by researchers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Emerging “Universal” FPGA, GPU Platform for Deep Learning

In the last couple of years, we have written and heard about the usefulness of GPUs for deep learning training as well as, to a lesser extent, custom ASICs and FPGAs. All of these options have shown performance or efficiency advantages over commodity CPU-only approaches, but programming for all of these is often a challenge.

Programmability hurdles aside, deep learning training on accelerators is standard, but is often limited to a single choice—GPUs or, to a far lesser extent, FPGAs. Now, a research team from the University of California Santa Barbara has proposed a new middleware platform that can combine …

Emerging “Universal” FPGA, GPU Platform for Deep Learning was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Oracle pledges ‘x86 economics’ with new Sparc servers

Larry Ellison doesn't do "cheap." The Oracle chairman isn't interested in selling the low-cost one- and two-socket servers that make up a huge slice of the server market but yield little profit for the companies that make them. Even if he did, that business is pretty much sewn up by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, and the "white box" makers from China and Taiwan.But Ellison's also a realist, and he knows customers are gradually turning away from his pricey Unix systems in favor of x86 boxes to build scale-out private and hybrid clouds. So to keep customers interested in Sparc, Ellison needs to come downmarket and provide more affordable options.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

What is Google Up To?

The astonishing rise and rise of the fortunes of Google has been one of the major features of both social and business life of the early 21st century. In the same way that Microsoft transformed the computer into a mainstream consumer product, Google has had a similar transformative effect upon its environment.

The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts

When writing an HTTP server or client in Go, timeouts are amongst the easiest and most subtle things to get wrong: there’s many to choose from, and a mistake can have no consequences for a long time, until the network glitches and the process hangs.

HTTP is a complex multi-stage protocol, so there's no one-size fits all solution to timeouts. Think about a streaming endpoint versus a JSON API versus a Comet endpoint. Indeed, the defaults are often not what you want.

In this post I’ll take apart the various stages you might need to apply a timeout to, and look at the different ways to do it, on both the Server and the Client side.

SetDeadline

First, you need to know about the network primitive that Go exposes to implement timeouts: Deadlines.

Exposed by net.Conn with the Set[Read|Write]Deadline(time.Time) methods, Deadlines are an absolute time which when reached makes all I/O operations fail with a timeout error.

Deadlines are not timeouts. Once set they stay in force forever (or until the next call to SetDeadline), no matter if and how the connection is used in the meantime. So to build a timeout with SetDeadline you'll have to Continue reading

Terrorism database of 2.2 million people leaked

Security researcher Chris Vickery has a knack for finding unprotected databases, but this time it’s an especially explosive discovery, as he came across a “terrorism blacklist” that contains the names of 2.2 million “heightened-risk individuals and organizations.”Vickery asked Reddit if he should share a copy of the Thomson Reuters World-Check database from mid-2014. He wrote, “This copy has over 2.2 million heightened-risk individuals and organizations in it. The terrorism category is only a small part of the database. Other categories consist of individuals suspected of being related to money laundering, organized crime, bribery, corruption, and other unsavory activities.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Terrorism database of 2.2 million people leaked

Security researcher Chris Vickery has a knack for finding unprotected databases, but this time it’s an especially explosive discovery, as he came across a “terrorism blacklist” that contains the names of 2.2 million “heightened-risk individuals and organizations.”Vickery asked Reddit if he should share a copy of the Thomson Reuters World-Check database from mid-2014. He wrote, “This copy has over 2.2 million heightened-risk individuals and organizations in it. The terrorism category is only a small part of the database. Other categories consist of individuals suspected of being related to money laundering, organized crime, bribery, corruption, and other unsavory activities.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Terrorism database of 2.2 million people leaked

Security researcher Chris Vickery has a knack for finding unprotected databases, but this time it’s an especially explosive discovery, as he came across a “terrorism blacklist” that contains the names of 2.2 million “heightened-risk individuals and organizations.”Vickery asked Reddit if he should share a copy of the Thomson Reuters World-Check database from mid-2014. He wrote, “This copy has over 2.2 million heightened-risk individuals and organizations in it. The terrorism category is only a small part of the database. Other categories consist of individuals suspected of being related to money laundering, organized crime, bribery, corruption, and other unsavory activities.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Terrorism database of 2.2 million people leaked, a blacklist used by governments, banks

Security researcher Chris Vickery has a knack for finding unprotected databases, but this time it’s an especially explosive discovery as he came across a “terrorism blacklist” which contains the names of 2.2 million “heightened-risk individuals and organizations.”Vickery asked Reddit if he should share a copy of the Thomson Reuters World-Check database from mid-2014. He wrote, “This copy has over 2.2 million heightened-risk individuals and organizations in it. The terrorism category is only a small part of the database. Other categories consist of individuals suspected of being related to money laundering, organized crime, bribery, corruption, and other unsavory activities.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Terrorism database of 2.2 million people leaked, a blacklist used by governments, banks

Security researcher Chris Vickery has a knack for finding unprotected databases, but this time it’s an especially explosive discovery as he came across a “terrorism blacklist” which contains the names of 2.2 million “heightened-risk individuals and organizations.”Vickery asked Reddit if he should share a copy of the Thomson Reuters World-Check database from mid-2014. He wrote, “This copy has over 2.2 million heightened-risk individuals and organizations in it. The terrorism category is only a small part of the database. Other categories consist of individuals suspected of being related to money laundering, organized crime, bribery, corruption, and other unsavory activities.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Installing Windows 10: What to do when there’s not enough storage space

By now, most people who want Windows 10 on their PCs (and some who don’t) have probably installed the upgrade by now.But there is at least one notable exception: If you don’t have enough free storage space on your hard drive, the installation won’t complete. This may result in a “Windows needs more space” dialog box, or one of several error codes (including 0x80070070 – 0x50011, 0x80070070 – 0x50012, or 0x80070070 – 0x60000).INSIDER Review: Enterprise guide to Windows 10 Time’s running out to clear some space and complete the installation. Here’s what you can do to make sure the upgrade goes through:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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