How the Mac made a hacker out of me

As long as I can remember, I’ve had an interest in computer programming. I started tinkering as a kid back in the early 1980s with a TI-99-4A and Atari XL Series (remember those membrane keyboards?), Atari STs and Apple II’s. Most of that was just goofy …
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Boasting Better Encryption, Bug Fixes, OpenSSH 6.5 Released – Threatpost

Boasting Better Encryption, Bug Fixes, OpenSSH 6.5 Released
Threatpost
It was last famously exploited in 2012 in an attack which saw the malware Flame forge a certificate from Microsoft. OpenSSH will refuse connection entirely with anyone using these old clients or servers in a future build, but for the meantime will

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Canadian retailers need to shake their computer security complacency – Yahoo Canada Finance – Insight (blog)


Yahoo Canada Finance – Insight (blog)

Canadian retailers need to shake their computer security complacency
Yahoo Canada Finance – Insight (blog)
The banks take security more seriously than almost any other sector, which is why you rarely hear of computer security attacks bringing down your local branch. It's unlikely banks will form relationships with retailers that can't demonstrate an ability

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Implications of a “National Internet” – The Data Center Journal


The Data Center Journal

Implications of a “National Internet”
The Data Center Journal
this month, collaboration between China and Iran in developing the latter's national network was widely reported. No doubt, the program gained steam following the breaking of the NSA scandal as well as discovery of the Stuxnet and Flame malware.

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