February 2016 – Page 83 – news.buyenne.com

ViaSat Joint Venture: Eutelsat wird schnelleres Satelliten-Internet bieten

Eutelsat beginnt eine Partnerschaft mit dem US-Satellitennetzbetreiber ViaSat in Europa. Der ViaSat-3 könne eine Kapazität von 1.000 GBit/s für Satelliteninternet erreichen. (Satelliteninternet, Technologie)

Make your own Firefox OS TV

Mozilla may not be actively developing Firefox OS for smartphones anymore… but the company is still pushing the operating system as an option for smart TVs and Internet-of Things products. Don’t want to spend money on a TV that comes with Firefox OS? You can build your own Firefox-based smart TV device… sort of. Developer fiji-flo […]

Make your own Firefox OS TV is a post from: Liliputing

SSDs: Micron startet Serienfertigung von 3D-NAND-Flash

32 Schichten mit zwei oder drei Bits pro Zelle: Micron hat begonnen, 3D-NAND-Flash-Speicher mit 256 und 384 GBit zu produzieren. SSDs mit den neuen Chips plant der Hersteller im Sommer 2016. (Flash-Speicher, Intel)

TV-Kabelnetz: Ausfall für 30.000 Haushalte bei Unitymedia

Bei Unitymedia hat eine Großstörung gestern und heute stundenlang Internet, Fernsehen und Telefon in 30.000 Haushalten lahmgelegt. Ursache der Unterbrechung waren Arbeiten an der Glasfaserstrecke. (Unitymedia, Fernsehen)

Nordrhein-Westfalen: Mehrere Krankenhäuser von Malware befallen

Viren und Krankenhäuser – da denken viele zuerst an MRSA und andere resistente Keime. Doch in NRW stören Computerviren den Betrieb mehrere Krankenhäuser – Operationen wurden abgesagt oder verschoben. (Malware, Virus)

Viren und Krankenhäuser - da denken viele zuerst an MRSA und andere resistente Keime. Doch in NRW stören Computerviren den Betrieb mehrere Krankenhäuser - Operationen wurden abgesagt oder verschoben. (Malware, Virus)

Erneuerbare Energien: Brennstoffzelle produziert Strom oder Wasserstoff

Eine neue Brennstoffzelle macht unabhängig vom Stromnetz und von Treibstoffnachschub. Einer der Hersteller ist ein Unternehmen aus Dresden. (Brennstoffzelle, Technologie)

Class-action suit over iPhone-bricking Error 53 filed in California

Error affects iPhone 6 and 6S handsets with replaced or damaged TouchID sensors.

The iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, and 6S Plus don't like it when you replace their TouchID sensors. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

In recent weeks, you may have read about iPhone error code 53, a problem related to the fingerprint sensor that can keep iPhones with damaged or replaced TouchID buttons from installing updates or brick them entirely. Yesterday, a Seattle law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It argues that preventing iPhones with damaged TouchID buttons from working normally otherwise is "abusive," that Apple did not adequately warn consumers of problems that could arise from a damaged or replaced TouchID sensor, and that "more than 62 million units" have been affected in the US as of November 2015.

Class-action status has yet to be granted by a judge; we'll continue to follow the story if it goes forward.

As much as it has inconvenienced some users, there is a technical reason why Error 53 exists. Every single TouchID sensor is paired to the phone that it ships with, a security measure Apple says is designed to "prevent a fraudulent TouchID sensor from being used." If every TouchID-iPhone pairing is unique, it makes it more difficult to use a bad fingerprint sensor to get into the phone or collect fingerprint or Apple Pay transaction information. Fine.

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Fitness-Apps: Asics kauft Runkeeper

Die Fitness-App Runkeeper gehört ab sofort zum Sportartikelhersteller Asics. Beide sind auf Laufen und Jogging spezialisiert. Für Endkunden soll sich vorerst nichts ändern. In letzter Zeit haben auch Adidas und Under Armour bereits bekannte Apps gekauft. (App, Adidas)

Silicon Photonics: Nanodraht-Laser sollen optische Chips wirtschaftlich machen

Photonen statt Elektronen – optische Schaltungen könnten eine Alternative zu elektronischen Halbleitern werden. Forscher in München haben hierzu einen neuen Ansatz entwickelt, Nanodraht-Laser mit Silizium zu verbinden. (Silicon Nanophotonics, Prozessor)

Photonen statt Elektronen - optische Schaltungen könnten eine Alternative zu elektronischen Halbleitern werden. Forscher in München haben hierzu einen neuen Ansatz entwickelt, Nanodraht-Laser mit Silizium zu verbinden. (Silicon Nanophotonics, Prozessor)

Torrents-Time Faces Security Concerns

Torrents-Time, the browser plug-in which allows people to stream torrents from The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents, has been flagged as insecure by several developers. Responding to the criticism, Torrents-Time just released an update with several fixes and improvements.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Over the past two weeks Torrents-Time has made headlines on hundreds of news sites.

While streaming torrents is nothing new, it quickly reached a mainstream audience when several of the largest torrent sites adopted the technology.

Earlier this week TorrentFreak learned that the implementation hadn’t gone flawlessly on all sites. For example, The Pirate Bay is now vulnerable to XSS attacks.

This allows outsiders to execute code on the site, as shown by this example.

While Torrents-Time isn’t necessarily to blame for this issue, the software’s popularity also prompted some developers to look for other possible security concerns in the application.

Aurous and Strike developer Andrew Sampson took the software apart and summarized several findings on his personal website, ultimately characterizing Torrents-Time as unsafe.

Among other things, the software is accused of running as root on OSX, leaking private information, and making it possible for outsiders to launch torrents without the user’s knowledge.

“It’s like leaving your door open, if not worse, giving a complete stranger the keys to your house, with no background check and blindly trusting them,” Sampson tells TorrentFreak.

While some of the issues are indeed causing concern, Torrents-Time’s developers counter that several reports contain incorrect statements and half-truths.

The XSS vulnerability was triggered by The Pirate Bay’s implementation, they say, and some of the privacy issues being highlighted apply to most sites and services.

Torrents-Time does acknowledge that it was possible for third parties to start torrents without the user’s knowledge. This will be fixed in an automatic update later today, after which users have to grant explicit permission.

It’s also true that Torrents-Time has root access on OSX, but according to the Torrents-Time team this is required to integrate the VPN service.

Torrents-Time’s full response to Sampson’s article is available here.

Meanwhile, Torrents-Time is also receiving pushback from other angles. AVG is now categorizing the application as Adware, possibly because it links to a VPN advertisement. In addition, ad-blockers have started to flag the streaming links on The Pirate Bay, hiding them from users.

Nevertheless, the developers are confident that they can deliver a quality product.

“We are more than eager to have an efficient and safe product. We undertake to rectify any flaw and deal with any threat to users and sites alike,” the Torrents-Time team informs us.

Perhaps it’s a no-brainer, but users visiting torrent sites should always proceed with care and with Torrents-Time the situation is no different.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.