Musings on Technology
I recently had the “pleasure” of helping a friend with his GNU/Linux box which was acting up. Turns out he had infected his machine with the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware, probably by installing an unofficial Kodi plugin.
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On February 24, 2017 The Guardian Project (not to be confused with the newspaper) presented “Proof Mode”, an app for Android smartphones which promises to add cryptographic “proof” to ever image and video file recorded by the device as to prove the material is authentic and hasn’t been tampered with. Sadly, none of the promises have proven to be true to me.
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Many out there use TeX or one of its distributions like LaTex, MiKTeX or teTeX. Sharing TeX files between authors is common, and often conference organizers, journal editors or university institutes offer TeX templates for papers and diploma theses. So what if a TeX file could take over your computer?
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The KDE project has issued a security advisory for the HTTPS KIO Slave yesterday. KIO is a KDE-specific technology which allows applications to transparently access any content as if it was a file, through the use of helper applications (“slaves”).
Read moreFrisch von heise: Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates hat auf dem Government Leaders Forum in Prag ein Sicherheitskooperations-Programm für Behörden und Regierungen
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