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BVG: Berlins neue E-Busse sind teuer

Einem Medienbericht zufolge gibt das Land Berlin rund 18 Millionen Euro für die Beschaffung neuer Busse mit Elektroantrieb aus, die von zwei Herstellern kommen. Die Kosten sind damit noch immer sehr hoch. Kritisiert wird zudem die Umweltbilanz. (Elektr…

Confirmed: Supremacy Kodi Repo Was Indeed Targeted By Police

Following the surprise shutdown of the Supremacy kodi add-on repository on June 13, TorrentFreak can today confirm that its operator was indeed targeted by UK police. The decision to report the case to law enforcement was taken by the Federation Against Copyright Theft in association with the Premier League, Sky, BT Sport, and Virgin Media.

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On June 13, 2019, the Covert Development and Disruption Team of the UK’s North West Regional Organised Crime Unit arrested an individual said to be responsible for an allegedly-infringing Kodi add-on.

The unit revealed that the 40-year-old man was detained in Winsford, Cheshire, following an investigation in cooperation with the Federation Against Copyright Theft. The add-on was unnamed but was reportedly configured to supply illegal online streams.

When TorrentFreak tried to fill in the gaps, considerable circumstantial evidence pointed to the likelihood that the arrested man was connected to the Supremacy add-on repository. Today we are in a position to confirm that belief following discussion with FACT director general Kieron Sharp.

Since there are limitations on what can be discussed when a case is ongoing, we asked Sharp why the matter had been referred to the authorities. There have been numerous instances of add-on developers in the UK being served with private cease-and-desist notices so why was this case different and why did it warrant an organized crime unit getting involved?

“This was a decision taken by FACT who advised rights holders such as PL [Premier League], Sky, BT Sport and VM [Virgin Media] that police action was the most proportionate response to the level of damage and harm that was being caused by these entities,” Sharp explains.

“Other industry groups have used different tactics which are reasonable in certain circumstances, but FACT have the partnerships in LEA’s [law enforcement agencies] to enable this type of action to be considered.”

Sharp says that when FACT presented its evidence to the police, they considered the case serious enough to take action, which resulted in the individual operating as ‘Supremacy’ being arrested.

FACT’s director general rejects the notion that handing a case over to the police is the easy option, insisting that a referral to the authorities requires that an investigation takes place to particular standards.

“To get any LEA to act in these matters requires a high level of evidence. Given the pressure on LEA resources and many other priorities, FACT are very careful in which cases they will approach LEA’s with and have many other strategies for disrupting illegal activity which are used constantly,” Sharp says.

In the wake of the arrest, several other Kodi add-on repositories shut down, presumably due to fears of similar action. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by FACT, with Sharp noting that several strategies to disrupt piracy are deployed with the results taken on board.

“[I]t would appear, from their own comments, that the action has panicked the others. This is not uncommon but more often seen after a criminal conviction. It shows that action needs to be taken and that it can have an impact on the piracy problem. There is no one solution so a range of tactics have to be tried and implemented and the outcomes monitored,” Sharp concludes.

There can be little doubt that the involvement of the police in the shutdown of a Kodi repository and associated add-ons is somewhat of a game-changer in the UK. Where once a sternly-worded letter may have been a warning sign, there is now a worrying precedent for those engaged in similar activity.

What the final charges will be in this case, if any, remain unclear. However, FACT has a history of pursuing convictions under the Fraud Act, which can carry harsher sentences than those actioned under copyright law.

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Security firms demonstrate subdomain hijack exploit vs. EA/Origin

Two security firms graphically demonstrate the danger of subdomain hijacking.

Israeli security firms Check Point and CyberInt partnered up this week to find, exploit, and demonstrate a nasty security flaw that allows attackers to hijack player accounts in EA/Origin's online games. The exploit chains together several classic types of attack—phishing, session hijacking, and cross-site scripting—but the key flaw that makes the entire attack work is poorly maintained DNS.

This short video clip walks you through the entire process: phish a victim, steal their account token, access their account, and even buy in-game stuff with their saved credit card. (You might want to mute before you press play—the background music is loud and obnoxious.)

If you have a reasonably good eye for infosec, most of the video speaks for itself. The attacker phishes a victim over WhatsApp into clicking a dodgy link, the victim clicks the shiny and gets owned, and the stolen credentials are used to wreak havoc on the victim's account.

What makes this attack different—and considerably more dangerous—is the attacker's possession of a site hosted at a valid, working subdomain of ea.com. Without a real subdomain in their possession, the attack would have required the victim to log into a fake EA portal and harvested a password. This would have immensely increased the likelihood of the victim becoming alert to a scam. With the working subdomain, the attacker was able to harvest the authentication token from an existing, active EA session before exploiting it directly and in real time.

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Elektrische Nutzfahrzeuge: Nicht mehr vom Müllwagen geweckt werden

Keine lokalen CO2-Emissionen und weniger Lärm: Stadtbewohner hätten lieber heute als morgen leise Müllwagen, Bagger und andere elektrische Nutzfahrzeuge. Viele sind schon im Testbetrieb – und einige sogar schon im regulären Einsatz. Ein Bericht von Dir…

Keine lokalen CO2-Emissionen und weniger Lärm: Stadtbewohner hätten lieber heute als morgen leise Müllwagen, Bagger und andere elektrische Nutzfahrzeuge. Viele sind schon im Testbetrieb - und einige sogar schon im regulären Einsatz. Ein Bericht von Dirk Kunde (Elektromobilität, Technologie)

Datenschutzbeauftragte: Ermittlungen gegen Marit Hansen eingestellt

Mehr als drei Jahre ermittelte die Staatsanwaltschaft wegen eines angeblichen Abrechnungsbetrugs bei den schleswig-holsteinischen Datenschützern. “Pleiten und Pannen” hätten die Aufklärung verzögert, kritisiert die betroffene Marit Hansen. (Facebook, S…

Mehr als drei Jahre ermittelte die Staatsanwaltschaft wegen eines angeblichen Abrechnungsbetrugs bei den schleswig-holsteinischen Datenschützern. "Pleiten und Pannen" hätten die Aufklärung verzögert, kritisiert die betroffene Marit Hansen. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)

#Twittersperrt: Gerichte erklären satirische Wahltweets für zulässig

Vor den Europawahlen im Mai sperrte Twitter zahlreiche Accounts wegen angeblicher Wählertäuschung. Mehrere Gerichte haben dieses Vorgehen nun untersagt. Auch AfD-Wähler könnten Satire erkennen. (Twitter, Soziales Netz)

Lufttaxi: Kitty Hawk kooperiert mit Boeing

Der eine ist Marktführer, der andere ein Startup mit bekanntem Namen: Luftfahrtkonzern Boeing und Kitty Hawk, Entwickler eines Lufttaxis, der von Google-Gründer Larry Page unterstützt wird, beschäftigen sich in Zukunft gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Aspek…