Earlier this month a number of Twitter accounts belonging to prominent, highly-followed individuals like Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos were compromised, seemingly to defraud strangers out of bitcoin. Unfettered access to potentially sensitive information contained therein generated…
Source: Gizmodo – Three Charged in the Single Worst Hack in Twitter’s History [Updated]
Launched just a few days ago, Karmbian is a Kali Linux based distribution optimized for ARM devices.
Source: Linux Today – Meet Karmbian, an ARM Linux Distro for Ethical Hackers Based on Kali Linux and Armbian
The recent “Gigaleak” of Nintendo assets has given us an inside look at the development of some of our favorite games. But as one might expect from a massive collection of prototypes and early builds that were never meant to see the light of day, there’s a good deal of weird and otherwise out-of-place stuff as well.
Source: Kotaku – Smoking Toad, F-Zero Beavis, And Other Weird Nintendo Gigaleak Finds
As our country wrestles with new coronavirus outbreaks, the economy continues its downward slump. This week’s announcement from the Federal Reserve was bad news for savers—who may already be antsy about low interest rates and where to stash their cash, according to a new Bloomberg report.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Know if There’s Too Much Cash in Your Savings Account
On its face, the netgpu
patch set appears to add a useful feature: the ability to copy network
data directly between a network adapter and a GPU without moving it through
the host CPU. This patch set has quickly become an example of how not to get
work into the kernel, though; it has no chance of being merged in anything
like its current form and has created a backlash designed to keep modules
like it from ever working in mainline kernels. It all comes down to one
fundamental mistake: basing kernel work on a proprietary kernel module.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
The novel coronavirus pandemic’s effects have already been felt far and wide, in comic book publishing and sales, the gaming industry, Hollywood, and beyond. But it’s also, of course, affecting people on an individual level. To that end, io9 decided to talk to some folks about what the covid-19 pandemic has done to…
Source: io9 – Creating During Covid: Tom Whalen and a Newfound Appreciation for Being an Artist
Enlarge / Security updates intended to patch the BootHole UEFI vulnerability are rendering some Linux systems unable to boot at all. (credit: Aurich Lawson)
Early this morning, an urgent bug showed up at Red Hat’s bugzilla bug tracker—a user discovered that the RHSA_2020:3216 grub2 security update and RHSA-2020:3218 kernel security update rendered an RHEL 8.2 system unbootable. The bug was reported as reproducible on any clean minimal install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2.
The patches were intended to close a newly discovered vulnerability in the GRUB2 boot manager called BootHole. The vulnerability itself left a method for system attackers to potentially install “bootkit” malware on a Linux system despite that system being protected with UEFI Secure Boot.
Unfortunately, Red Hat’s patch to GRUB2 and the kernel, once applied, are leaving patched systems unbootable. The issue is confirmed to affect RHEL 7.8 and RHEL 8.2, and it may affect RHEL 8.1 and 7.9 as well. RHEL-derivative distribution CentOS is also affected.
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Source: Ars Technica – Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
In a press conference on Friday, US authorities announced they arrested the main suspect behind this month’s major Twitter hack. From a report: The suspected hacker was identified as Graham Ivan Clark, a 17-year-old teen from Hillsborough County, Florida. According to Florida news outlet WFLA-TV, which first reported on the arrest, Clark was arrested earlier this morning, following a nationwide collaboration between the FBI, the IRS, the DOJ, and the Secret Service. Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren filed charges against Clark for being the “mastermind” behind the July 15 Twitter incident, when the teen is believed to have gained access to Twitter’s backend, took over several high-profile accounts, and tweeted on their behalf to promote a cryptocurrency scam. The list of hacked accounts includes big names like Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Michael Bloomberg, and others. Further reading: Twitter Says High-Profile Hack Was the Result of a Phishing Attack.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – A Florida Teen Just Got Arrested for Twitter’s Huge Hack
In Uganda, a man was just sentenced to prison for 11 years after he confessed to killing a rare silverback gorilla last month in a landmark decision for wildlife.
Source: Gizmodo – Poacher Who Killed a Rare Gorilla Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Welcome to the last of our fitness challenge posts for the month. I hope you’ve enjoyed these mini breaks from your day, even though they’re sometimes a little silly. Today, I have a challenge that’s even sillier: put something other than your butt on your chair.
Source: LifeHacker – Use Your Chair for a Home Workout
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a game that demands attention. The way it’s structured, you’re supposed to play every day, or at least check in to see what’s up. Like brushing your teeth or taking out the trash, Animal Crossing is, at its core, a chore. So what happens if you forget to do that chore for two months?
Source: LifeHacker – What Happens When You Abandon Your Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island
My bar cart is a crowded, chaotic piece of furniture. At the front, we have the stuff I use on a near-constant basis—gin, Campari, bourbon, and rye—but things get little more esoteric towards the back. As you make your way deeper into my collection of ethanol, you’ll find a lot of liqueurs and amari, including a…
Source: LifeHacker – Make a Dark and Moody Whiskey Lemonade With Cassis
We already knew Cortana’s days as a consumer-facing digital assistant were numbered after Microsoft said earlier this year it would remove the AI from its Android launcher app. But the company has now detailed additional cuts that users are likely to…
Source: Engadget – Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021
While it seems like we’ll be seeing the Surface Duo very soon, it appears we’ll have to wait a lot longer for the Surface Neo. Microsoft originally planned for the Neo to launch during the 2020 holiday season, but has reportedly instead hit pause on the production of the dual-screen tablet.
Source: Gizmodo – Microsoft Is Reportedly Delaying the Dual-Screen Surface Neo
The team at Anvil recently open sourced the Anvil App Server, a runtime engine for hosting web apps built entirely in Python.The community reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, and we, at Anvil, have already incorporated lots of that feedback into our next release. But one of the questions we keep getting asked is, “Why did you choose to open source such a core part of your product?”read more
Source: LXer – Why we open sourced our Python platform
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A Florida teen has been arrested and charged with 30 felony counts related to the high-profile hijacking of more than 100 Twitter accounts earlier this month.
Federal law enforcement arrested Graham Ivan Clark, 17, in Tampa earlier today, the Office of Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren said. The arrest followed an investigation spearheaded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department.
“These crimes were perpetrated using the names of famous people and celebrities, but they’re not the primary victims here,” said Warren. “This ‘Bit-Con’ was designed to steal money from regular Americans from all over the country, including here in Florida. This massive fraud was orchestrated right here in our backyard, and we will not stand for that.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Florida teen arrested, charged with being “mastermind” of Twitter hack
In an apparent final-hour agreement between WarnerMedia and Amazon, Fire TV users will be able to continue streaming HBO.
Source: Gizmodo – HBO Is Safe on Fire TV—Kind Of
Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, New York Times reported Friday, citing a person with knowledge of the discussions, as President Trump said on Friday that he was considering taking steps that would effectively ban the app from the United States. From a report: It’s unclear how advanced the talks between Microsoft and TikTok are, but any deal could help alter TikTok’s ownership, said the person with knowledge of the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese internet company that is valued at $100 billion. That has raised scrutiny of the app, with Trump administration officials saying that they have been concerned that TikTok poses a threat to national security.
The Trump administration has been weighing whether to order ByteDance to divest from American assets it acquired in 2017, which were later merged into TikTok. Bloomberg reported Friday that the president was poised to announce an order that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations. The Trump administration has also been weighing other potential actions against the company, including adding ByteDance to a so-called “entity list,” which prevents foreign companies from purchasing American products and services without a special license, according to people familiar with the matter.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Microsoft in Talks To Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App
Holy shit: A lot of you really like the guitar. There were so. many. passionate and helpful responses to our call for the best guitar for beginners. I didn’t bargain for a master class in purchasing your first axe, but that’s exactly what I got, and I implore anyone exploring guitar to go check out all the wonderful…
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Guitars for Beginners, According to Our Readers
Director Bryan Singer became a name in Hollywood after The Usual Suspects but shot to fame after taking on the X-Men franchise. Years later, and after years of rumors of Singer allegedly sexually abusing a number of young men, a damning Atlantic report was released in which four men detailed their personal experiences…
Source: io9 – The X2 Cast Allegedly Almost Quit the Marvel Film Over Bryan Singer
