Big bag of fixes! Oracle’s Critical Patches for Jan 2015 fix 160 holes in 48 products, with 93 of those vulnerabilities remotely exploitable.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Gamergate target Zoe Quinn launches network to battle online harassment
Crash Override pre-emptively warns would-be swatting victims and has gotten one police department to knock with hands, not boots.
Does Facebook know you better than your friends and family do?
What if a computer could predict your behavior and understand your personality better than your coworkers, friends, siblings, even your spouse? 
Leaked Minecraft usernames and passwords – a storm in a security teacup?
The blocky online building environment is attracting press because about 1800 Minecraft credentials (worth about $27 USD each) have been leaked on Pastebin.
“Cheaper car insurance” dongle could lead to a privacy wreck
You’d hope that the developers of a dongle that tracks your driving paid a lot of attention to computer security. Or, in fact, any attention at all…
Police seize robot and its shopping, including drugs, master keys and stash can
“The Random Darknet Shopper” robot enjoyed a 3-month shopping spree on the Darknet, which included ordering 10 tablets of 120mg MDMA.
Why the US was so sure North Korea hacked Sony: it had a front-row seat
A newly released, top-secret document traces the NSA’s infiltration of North Korean systems back to 2010, when it piggybacked on South Korean “implants” on North Korea’s networks and “sucked back the data”.
Lizard Squad’s DDoS service hacked, buyers’ details revealed
Lizard Squad, the group that took down the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox networks over the Christmas period, has received a dose of its own medicine with the news that it has itself been hacked.
Do terrorists use spam to shroud their secrets?
An article by an NSA mathematician about randomness also raises the question, “Are terrorists hiding behind spam?”
Hackers for hire? Hacker’s List – for those with no ethics or espionage skills
Prying open a boyfriend’s private accounts is just one of the crimes listed on ‘Hacker’s List’ – a Task Rabbit/Craigslist-esque hackers-for-hire website.