July 2017 – Page 95 – news.buyenne.com

Ausbaupläne: Facebook will Menlo Park weiter umbauen

Südlich seines Hauptquartiers im Silicon Valley will Facebook ein neues Viertel mit Dienstgebäuden, Wohnhäusern und Infrastruktur bauen. Damit rückt Facebook näher an Stadtgebiete heran, die bisher von steigenden Grundstückspreisen und Lebenshaltungskosten verschont geblieben sind. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)

How I learned to stop worrying (mostly) and love my threat model

Reducing privacy and security risks starts with knowing what the threats really are.

I have a healthy level of paranoia given the territory I inhabit. When you write things about hackers and government agencies and all that, you simply have a higher level of skepticism and caution about what lands in your e-mail inbox or pops up in your Twitter direct messages. But my paranoia is also based on a rational evaluation of what I might encounter in my day-to-day: it's based on my threat model.

In the most basic sense, threat models are a way of looking at risks in order to identify the most likely threats to your security. And the art of threat modeling today is widespread. Whether you're a person, an organization, an application, or a network, you likely go through some kind of analytical process to evaluate risk.

Threat modeling is a key part of the practice people in security often refer to as "Opsec." A portmanteau of military lineage originally meaning "operation security," Opsec originally referred to the idea of preventing an adversary from piecing together intelligence from bits of sensitive but unclassified information, as wartime posters warned with slogans like "Loose lips might sink ships." In the Internet age, Opsec has become a much more broadly applicable practice—it's a way of thinking about security and privacy that transcends any specific technology, tool, or service. By using threat modeling to identify your own particular pile of risks, you can then move to counter the ones that are most likely and most dangerous.

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Sicherheitslecks: Hacker greifen Atomanlagen in den USA an

In den letzten zwei Monaten haben Hacker in den USA vermehrt die Computersysteme von Atomkraftwerken angegriffen und versucht, sich Zutritt zu verschaffen. Die Anlagen steuern konnten die Eindringlinge offenbar nicht. Auch andere Industrieanlagen solle…

Informationsdiebstahl: Waymo zieht Klage gegen Uber weitgehend zurück

Der Rechtsstreit zwischen Waymo und Uber ist entschärft: Waymo zieht seine Klage wegen Patentverletzungen nach Sichtung der Beweise und Absprachen mit Uber zum größten Teil zurück. Das Gericht schätzt den Diebstahlvorwurf gegen einen Ex-Mitarbeiter aber als wahrscheinlich zutreffend ein. (Waymo, Google)

Pirate Site Admin Must Pay 13 Million Euros – If Anyone Can Find Him

Following seven years of legal problems and several court cases, the operator of a defunct warez site has been ordered to pay 13 million euros to movie studios and companies including Microsoft. He also faces a year in jail but with his whereabouts unknown, it seems unlikely that Disney and friends will get a Hollywood ending.

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

Founded in 2006 by Dimitri Mader, Wawa-Mania grew into a million member strong ‘warez’ forum specializing in a broad range of ‘pirate’ content. But just three years later things were already starting to go bad.

In 2009, the Frenchman was detained by the authorities after the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) identified more than 3,600 films being made available via the platform without permission. In the meantime the site continued, generating income from advertising and accepting donations via PayPal.

The case dragged on for years but reached its goal in 2015. Mader was found guilty, sentenced to a year in prison, and hit with a 20,000 euro fine. But by this time the Frenchman was long gone and living with his family in the Philippines. He didn’t even attend the hearing – but things weren’t over yet.

With Mader’s guilt established, the court had to determine the level of damages payable to the plaintiffs, which included Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount, Tristar, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. The amount eventually arrived at by the court was around $15m.

“I won’t think about the penalty, it is just beyond any common sense,” Mader told TF at the time.

“I will surely not [pay anything] and even if a new court makes the penalty lower, it won’t change anything. Five million, 15 million or 30 million. What’s the difference after all?”

Being outside the country with a jail sentence and huge fines hanging over his head was a big problem for Mader, who told us that returning home after years outside the country would be a complicated affair. But things still weren’t over.

In a ruling handed down last month and just made public, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the lower court, affirming that Mader owes the plaintiffs 13 million euros ($14.85m).

According to a report from Numerama, the court said that “the likely harm [to rightsholders] must be assessed in light of the extent of visitors to this site [at the time of the investigation], the number of creative works involved, and the ‘views’ duly established.”

The court determined that every visit to the site wouldn’t necessarily have resulted in an illegal download, but it still placed a value of two euros on every work believed to have been downloaded by users.

Mader did not attend the appeal and was not represented, so things were never likely to go his way. His current whereabouts are not clear, but it seems likely that he remains in the Philippines with his family.

Correspondence sent by TF to his encrypted email account bounced. Only time will tell whether Hollywood will have equal difficulty contacting him.

The full decision can be found here.

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

Die Woche im Video: Die Post schlampt und Oneplus steht Kopf

Massenhaft Kundendaten frei im Netz, Drunter und Drüber beim Oneplus Five – und wir holen unseren DOS-Rechner aus dem Keller. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)

Massenhaft Kundendaten frei im Netz, Drunter und Drüber beim Oneplus Five - und wir holen unseren DOS-Rechner aus dem Keller. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)

Latest Windows 10 preview handles DPI changes without a reboot, reads PFs aloud to you (in Edge web browser)

Microsoft’s latest preview build of Windows 10 for PCs includes new features for the Edge web browser, improved handling of DPI scaling changes, and support for Emoji 5.0 in the Emoji keyboard, along with a bunch of other feature tweaks, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16237 is now available for […]

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Drone dropped “tools” enabling inmate to escape, prison officials say

“We believe a drone was used to fly in the tools that allowed him to escape.”

A South Carolina inmate used wire cutters and other "tools" like mobile phones believed to be dropped from a drone to coordinate his escape from a maximum-security prison. The inmate wasn't noticed missing for 18 hours, prison officials said Friday.

Jimmy Causey. (credit: South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Jimmy Causey was arrested Friday in Austin, Texas, about 1,200 miles away from the Lieber Correctional Institution outside Charleston, authorities said. Prison officials believe the 46-year-old man (PDF), serving a life sentence for kidnapping his attorney, escaped around 8pm on July 4. The authorities had not realized the convict was gone until about 2pm the next afternoon. Causey had cut through four fences to escape.

"We 100 percent know a cellphone was used or multiple cellphones were used while he was incarcerated, and we believe a drone was used to fly in the tools that allowed him to escape," Bryan Stirling, director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, said, according to The New York Times.

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Moto G5S Plus specs leaked: It’s like a G5 Plus… but better (mostly)

Motorola launched the Moto G 5 Plus smartphone in February, offering a 5.2 inch full HD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor, a 3,000 mAh battery, and a starting price of $230 for a model with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. While the company will likely continue to offer that model for a […]

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Possibly most intense Star Wars v. Star Trek argument ever ends in arrest

Two roommates fight over sci-fi; one ends up in jail.

An Oklahoma City man was arrested last Saturday after police responded to a domestic disturbance in the force (or perhaps a rip in space-time): two roommates were arguing over whether Star Wars or Star Trek was the better movie, and things got too intense.

A police report provided to Ars does not specify precisely which of the myriad of movies and/or shows the men were griping about. However, it does say that during the argument, the victim, Bradley Warren Burke, went back to his room.

As he did so, Burke told his roommate, 23-year-old Jerome Dewayne Whyte, that Whyte was "just a trick."

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