schwit1 quotes a report from Bloomberg: The net worth of the world’s richest person Bill Gates hit $90 billion on Friday, fueled by gains in public holdings including Canadian National Railway Company and Ecolab Inc. Gates’s fortune is now $13.5 billion bigger than that of the world’s second-wealthiest person, Spanish retail mogul Amancio Ortega, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. At $90 billion, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder’s net worth is equal to 0.5 percent of U.S. GDP. Less than two weeks ago, Bill Gates topped Forbes’ “100 Richest Tech Billionaires In The World 2016” (Warning: may be paywalled) list with an estimated fortune of $78 billion.

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An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: A Wi-Fi router manufactured and sold only in China can easily run for the title of “most insecure router ever made.” The BHU router, whose name translates to “Tiger Will Power,” has a long list of security problems that include: four authentication bypass flaws (one of which is just hilarious); a built-in backdoor root account that gets created on every boot-up sequence; the fact that it opens the SSH port for external connections after every boot (somebody has to use that root backdoor account right?); a built-in proxy server that re-routes all traffic; an ad injection system that adds adverts to all the sites you visit; and a backup JS file embedded in the router firmware if the ad script fails to load from its server. For techies, there’s a long technical write-up, which gets funnier and scarier at the same time as you read through it. “An attacker authenticating on the router can use a hardcoded session ID (SID) value of 700000000000000 to gain admin privileges,” reports Softpedia. “If he misspells the SID and drops a zero, that’s no problem. The BHU router will accept any value and still grant the user admin rights.”

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Source: Slashdot – BHU’s ‘Tiger Will Power’ Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Turkish investigative journalist Baris Pehlivan spent 19 months in jail, accused of terrorism based on documents found on his work computer. But when digital forensics experts examined his PC, they discovered that those files were put there by someone who removed the hard drive from the case, copied the documents, and then reinstalled the hard drive. The attackers also attempted to control the journalist’s machine remotely, trying to infect it using malicious email attachments and thumb drives. Among the viruses detected in his computer was an extremely rare trojan called Ahtapot, in one of the only times it’s been seen in the wild. Pehlivan went to jail in February of 2011, along with six of his colleagues, after electronic evidence seized during a police raid in 2011 appeared to connect all of them to Ergenekon, an alleged armed group accused of terrorism in Turkey. A paper recently published by computer expert Mark Spencer in Digital Forensics Magazine sheds light into the case after several other reports have acknowledged the presence of malware. Spencer said no other forensics expert noticed the Ahtapot trojan in the OdaTV case, nor has determined accurately how those documents showed up on the journalist’s computer. However, almost all the reports have concluded that the incriminating files were planted. “We are not guilty,” Baris Pehlivan told Andrada Fiscutean via Motherboard. “The files were put into our computers by a virus and by [attackers] entering the OdaTV office secretly. None of us has seen those documents before the prosecutor showed them to us.” (OdaTV is the website Pehlivan works for and “has been critical of the government and the Gulen Movement, which was accused by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan of orchestrating the recent attempted coup.”) In regard to the report, senior security consultant at F-Secure, Taneli Kaivola, says, “Yes, [the report] takes an impressive level of conviction to locally attack a computer four times, and remotely attack it seven times [between January 1, 2011, and February 11, 2011], as well as a certain level of technical skill to set up the infrastructure for those attacks, which included document forgery and date and time manipulation.”

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: Analogue, the company behind the aluminum NES known as the Analogue Nt, is releasing a smaller, less expensive version of its console this January. Known as the Analogue Nt mini, the new version of the long-sold out hardware will be 20 percent smaller and carry a lower price: $449. The original Analogue Nt was priced at $499, but its tinier successor will outclass the original model with a better offering, the company says. The mini will comes with RGB and HDMI output (1080p/720p/480p) built in. The console will include a wireless 8Bitdo NES30 controller and Retro Receiver — compatible with PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U Pro Controllers — as part of the package. In addition, the Nt mini will support over 2,000 NES, Famicom and Famicom Disk System games.

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Source: Slashdot – Aluminum NES Maker Announces Smaller, Cheaper Analogue Nt Mini