New technique for pirating from 3D printers is the next frontier in theft
Let's say the manufacturer up the street is making widgets with a 3D printer and you'd like to get in on that action. If you want to clone those coveted 3D objects, all you need is an audio recorder in the room with the printer. Using just the noises emitted by the printer's stepper motors, you can replicate the object with up to 92% accuracy. According to a new paper published in Science, researc
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Yandex worker stole search engine source code, tried selling for just $28K
An employee of Russia's Internet giant Yandex, Dmitry Korobov, stole the source code of its search engine and tried to sell it on the black market to fund his own startup, according to a report by the Russian newspaper Kommersant. A Russian court has found Korobov guilty and handed down a suspended sentence of two years in jail. The Kommersant investigation revealed that Korobov downloaded a piece
“Who’s ISIS?” Anonymous’ #OpParis campaign against Islamic State goes awry
“Who’s ISIS?” Anonymous’ #OpParis campaign against Islamic State goes awry Anon mass-reporting of Twitter accounts submits thousands with no ISIS connection. The Twitter account of Anonymous' #OpParis anti-ISIS operation has made some extraordinary claims about its impact—many of which are now being questioned or outright discredited. The Twitter account of Anonymous' #OpParis anti-ISIS operation
Journalist linked to Anonymous found guilty of 3 federal counts of hacking [Updated]
Matthew Keys, a journalist, was found guilty on Wednesday of three counts of criminal hacking. He faces up to 25 years in prison, but officials are expected to seek less than five years. When asked via a Twitter direct message if he would appeal, he told Ars: "Yes," adding, "It's bullshit." On Twitter, his lawyer, Jay Leiderman, who has represented other Anonymous-related cases before, concurred.
reddit rolls out new rules, CEO says hiding racist subreddits is better than banning them
On Thursday, reddit's new CEO Steve Huffman, a co-founder of the site, held an AMA (shorthand for “ask me anything”), promising that he would answer questions and use the time “to decide together what our values are,” in the wake of a “content policy update.” Huffman, who goes by the username spez, posted a long note about how reddit would be moving forward, saying that its tagline, “the front pag
HTTPS-crippling FREAK exploit affects thousands of Android and iOS apps
HTTPS-crippling FREAK exploit affects thousands of Android and iOS apps Attackers can use FREAK to steal passwords for finance, shopping, or medical apps. The plaintext communications extracted from an unidentified smartphone app that's vulnerable to the recently disclosed FREAK exploit. Credit: FireEye The plaintext communications extracted from an unidentified smartphone app that's vulnerable to
NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip—no, really, that’s what they call it
The National Security Agency’s Office of Target Pursuit (OTP) maintains a team of engineers dedicated to cracking the encrypted traffic of virtual private networks (VPNs) and has developed tools that could potentially uncloak the traffic in the majority of VPNs used to secure traffic passing over the Internet today, according to documents published this week by the German news magazine Der Speigel
UK convicts man over manga sex images of children
UK convicts man over manga sex images of children Sex imagery of children can be illegal even if it's a drawing. A 39-year-old UK man has been convicted of possessing illegal cartoon drawings of young girls exposing themselves in school uniforms and engaging in sex acts. The case is believed to be the UK's first prosecution of illegal manga and anime images. Local media said that Robul Hoque was s
Yahoo to begin offering PGP encryption support in Yahoo Mail service
Yahoo to begin offering PGP encryption support in Yahoo Mail service CISO Alex Stamos announces change will go into effect in the fall. Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos announced today at Black Hat 2014 that starting in the fall of this year, the purple-hued company will begin giving users the option of seamlessly wrapping their e-mails in PGP encryption. According to Kashmir H
Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand for $7 million over illegal spying, raid
It was bound to happen sooner or later: Kim Dotcom has finally sued the New Zealand government over its admittedly illegal spying against him and the subsequent raid on his house. (A New Zealand Court granted him the right to sue earlier this year.) In court documents published for the first time this week by the New Zealand Herald, Dotcom lays out his case with many new details. In the unsealed f
Security of Java takes a dangerous turn for the worse, experts say
The security of Oracle's Java software framework, installed on some three billion devices worldwide, is taking a turn for the worse, thanks to an uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that will never be patched and increasingly sophisticated exploits, security researchers said. The most visible sign of deterioration is in-the-wild attacks exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in Java version
Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why
This week on the Tor e-mail list, Roger Dingledine, the project leader for the well-known online anonymity tool, pointed out that the “number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since August 19.” The above graph shows that in less than one week, the number of Tor users has shot up to about 1.2 million from 600,000. “And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data—it appears that there rea
NSA “touches” more of Internet than Google
Equinix's co-location facility in San Jose, California, one of the network exchange sites likely tapped by the NSA's "one-side foreign" surveillance. In a memo issued last Friday, the National Security Agency (NSA) provided details of its ongoing network surveillance operations intended to assuage concerns about its scope, content, and oversight. As Ars' Cyrus Farivar reported, the NSA tried to se
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