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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection?
* Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade
* Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can
* Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers
* Adobe Brings Flash-Free Flash To iOS Devices
* Mystery of Vanishing iTunes Credit Shows No Sign of Fading
* Aussie Blogger Hit With DDoS Death Threats
* The Linux Counter Relaunches
* <em>Hurt Locker</em> Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too
* How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive
* Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet
* SAP To Plead Guilty For Downloading Oracle Software
* Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices
* Security Researchers Crack APCO P25 Encryption
* NASA's Twin GRAIL Craft On Their Way To the Moon
* GlobalSign Web Server Hacked, But Not CA
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| Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection?
| from the until-proven-innocent dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @14:42 (Privacy)
| with 268 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1623255/Ask-Slashdot-P2P-Liability-On-a-Shared-Connection?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I have a roommate that insists on using
BitTorrent without taking any kind of precautions. He has an affinity for
downloading material that is extremely popular and high-risk. He's
received a warning from a well-known media giant in the past about his
file sharing, but hasn't been sued. We've recently begun living in an
apartment together (with one other person) and share our Internet
connection and IP address. If his p2p activity leads to someone
attempting to take legal action, could I be held liable? How would our
accusers differentiate between our computers if we all share the same IP
address? Would they just sue the lot of us?" Some lawyers would certainly
like to get a look at [0]everything on the other side of the connection.
Has anyone out there faced legal problems as a result of someone else's
use of your connection?
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1623255/Ask-Slashdot-P2P-Liability-On-a-Shared-Connection?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/08/1756201/IP-Addresses-Not-Enough-To-ID-Users
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| Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade
| from the now-keep-pace-canada dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @10:36 (Earth)
| with 221 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1435208/Power-Demand-From-US-Homes-Expected-To-Fall-For-a-Decade?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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We hear all the time that household energy consumption is rising, both in
the U.S. and around the world. That's been true in the big picture for
several decades at least, but reader [0]captainkoloth, with his first
accepted submission, points to an Associated Press article with some
encouraging news on this front: the rate of growth in U.S. household
energy use, and household energy use itself, is [1]expected to decline
slightly over the next 10 years. Take it for what you will, but that
conclusion is drawn by the Electric Power Research Institute, "a
nonprofit group funded by the utility industry."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1435208/Power-Demand-From-US-Homes-Expected-To-Fall-For-a-Decade?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:omfgoats@gmail.com
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfT760VvUJ6z-T2-NJQLzJcbnQrg?docId=http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/07/7651329-shocker-power-demand-from-us-homes-is-falling
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| Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can
| from the for-some-values-of-only dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @05:19 (Beer)
| with 203 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/016220/Boost-Your-Wi-Fi-Signal-Using-Only-a-Beer-Can?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter AmyVernon writes with a small hack that "is
supposed to boost signal strength by at least 2 to 4 bars," and which
[0]requires little more than a can of beer (or Orangina). She writes:
"What you need: scissors, a utility knife, some adhesive putty and an
empty beer can. The brand doesn't matter for the router, but I suppose it
would be cooler looking if it were Asahi or Stella Artois than if it were
Budweiser." Perhaps this will be added one day to my favorite (and very
extensive!) list of [1]low-budget Wi-Fi amplifying rigs.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/016220/Boost-Your-Wi-Fi-Signal-Using-Only-a-Beer-Can?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://dsc.discovery.com/gear-gadgets/boost-your-wifi-signal-using-only-a-beer-can.html
1. http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/
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| Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers
| from the we'll-take-away-your-disgusting-valuable-guano dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @19:50 (Education)
| with 156 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/2310233/Turnitins-Different-Messages-To-Students-Teachers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Economist David Harrington (spotted via Tyler Cowan's [0]Marginal
Revolution) charges anti-plagiarism service [1]Turnitin with "[2]playing
both sides of the fence, helping instructors identify plagiarists while
helping plagiarists avoid detection." Turnitin analyzes student papers
for suspicious elements in order to spot the plagiarism, scanning for
things like lifted quotations or clever rephrasing. However, the same
company offers a counterpart ��� a scanning service called WriteCheck which
essentially lets the writer of a submitted paper know whether that paper
would pass muster at Turnitin, and thus provides a way to skirt it (by
tweaking and resubmitting). Harrington gave these two systems an
interesting test, involving several New York Times articles and a book he
suspected of having lifted content from those articles.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/2310233/Turnitins-Different-Messages-To-Students-Teachers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://marginalrevolution.com/
1. https://turnitin.com/static/index.php
2. http://davideharrington.com/?p=594
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| Adobe Brings Flash-Free Flash To iOS Devices
| from the extreme-front-loading dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday September 09, @23:03 (Graphics)
| with 152 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0039235/Adobe-Brings-Flash-Free-Flash-To-iOS-Devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "At long last [1]Adobe Flash has come to an iPad or
iPhone, writes Jonny Evans. Adobe appeared at Europe's NAB equivalent,
IBC, this week to introduce [2]Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 and Adobe
Flash Access 3.0. Adobe's solution repackages content in real-time,
changing the protocol to suit the target device, HTTP Dynamic Streaming
or HLS, for example. This should mean that iOS devices will get much of
the advantages of Flash video support, without the processor degradation
and battery life cost of the format in use on other devices. 'With Adobe
Flash Media Server 4.5, media publishers now have a single, simple
workflow for delivering content using the same stream to Flash-enabled
devices or to the Apple iPhone and iPad,' Adobe says."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0039235/Adobe-Brings-Flash-Free-Flash-To-iOS-Devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://blogs.computerworld.com/18922/adobe_brings_flash_free_flash_to_apple_ipad_iphone
2. http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110907007466/en/Adobe/IBC/Flash-Media-Server
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| Mystery of Vanishing iTunes Credit Shows No Sign of Fading
| from the sounds-like-the-fraud-department-at-amex dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @12:37 (Apple)
| with 144 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1556249/Mystery-of-Vanishing-iTunes-Credit-Shows-No-Sign-of-Fading?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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E IS mC(Square) writes "Back on November 28, 2010, somebody started a
thread on Apple's support forums about [0]someone spending more than $50
of his iTunes Store credit on iPhone apps. That discussion thread has
since swelled to more than 45 pages, with nearly 700 posts. 'Someone ��� or
some group of someones ��� seems to be able to spend iTunes gift card
credit without permission, buying apps that users don't want. And
whoever's doing the hacking seems pretty good at it: Hundreds of users
have seen their iTunes credit stolen, and the [1]hack shows no signs of
slowing, ten months after it was first reported.' Apple has refunded
certain accounts, but not in all cases. Apple suggests that the hack
stems from weak, easily guessable passwords, and/or phishing attacks
where customers are fooled into entering their passwords into hackers'
forms."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1556249/Mystery-of-Vanishing-iTunes-Credit-Shows-No-Sign-of-Fading?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2665383
1. https://www.macworld.com/article/161794/2011/09/the_towson_hack_the_mystery_of_disappearing_itunes_credit.html#lsrc=twt_dmoren
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| Aussie Blogger Hit With DDoS Death Threats
| from the bad-childhoods-continue dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @02:11 (Australia)
| with 113 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0057252/Aussie-Blogger-Hit-With-DDoS-Death-Threats?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mask.of.sanity writes "An Australian blogger who blew the lid on emerging
domain-name fraud campaigns has [0]received death threats from the
scammers. His blog and domain parking company are still being hit with a
large [1]distributed denial of service attack that has the death threats
embedded as HTML links within its logs. [2]Australia's government CERT
team and the U.S. Secret Service (blog servers were hosted on U.S. soil)
are pursuing the botnet's command and control servers. Ten days later,
the victim is still being attacked and is fighting a cat-and-mouse game
as IP address ranges change."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0057252/Aussie-Blogger-Hit-With-DDoS-Death-Threats?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/271511,melbourne-domain-kingpin-hit-with-cyber-death-threats.aspx
1. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-015.html
2. http://www.cert.gov.au/
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| The Linux Counter Relaunches
| from the you're-spartacus-no-you're-spartacus dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @09:28 (Stats)
| with 99 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1249257/The-Linux-Counter-Relaunches?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]psychonaut writes "Long-term readers of Slashdot may be familiar with
[1]The Linux Counter, which attempts to measure (through surveys and
statistics) the number of people using GNU/Linux operating systems. The
project started in 1993 and shot to fame six years later, largely as a
result of three Slashdot articles (two of which brought the Counter to
its knees). After four years of stagnation, project founder [2]Harald
Tveit Alvestrand has handed over the reins to a new maintainer, Alexander
Mieland. Over the past few months, Mieland has completely redeveloped the
project, with a modernized design and support facilities (including a
[3]bug tracker, mailing list, [4]RSS feed, and [5]Twitter account).
[6]The New Linux Counter is now up and running, with all the data for
active users from the old counter. The old site will continue to operate
for a time but will soon be shut down and requests redirected to the new
site."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1249257/The-Linux-Counter-Relaunches?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nothingisreal.com/
1. http://counter.li.org/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Tveit_Alvestrand
3. http://trac.linuxcounter.net/
4. http://linuxcounter.net/rss.php
5. http://twitter.com/#!/NewLinuxCounter
6. http://linuxcounter.net/
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| <em>Hurt Locker</em> Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too
| from the heat-rises dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @18:47 (Canada)
| with 87 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/2239216/Hurt-Locker-Lawsuits-May-Reach-Canadians-Too?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter so.dan writes "Canadian copyright guru
Michael Geist reports that the 'File sharing lawsuits involving the movie
the Hurt Locker [that] have been big news in the United States for
months... are coming to Canada as the Federal Court of Canada has
[0]paved the way for the identification of subscribers at Bell Canada,
Cogeco, and Videotron who are alleged to have copied the movie.' This is
the first I've ever heard of MAFIAA lawsuits beginning to succeed in
Canada. The move seems to target larger ISPs. Are subscribers of smaller
ISPs ��� who must lease their lines from the larger ones such as Bell ���
relatively protected from such invasions of privacy due to some sort of
technical difficulty in determining the names of subscribers? (Please
excuse my technical ignorance)."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/2239216/Hurt-Locker-Lawsuits-May-Reach-Canadians-Too?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5999/125/
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| How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive
| from the pity-we-can't-short-the-stock dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @16:40 (Government)
| with 85 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1925209/How-the-Webb-Space-Telescope-Got-So-Expensive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter IICV writes "Ethan Siegel of [0]Starts with
a Bang has done some research on [1]how and why the James Webb Space
Telescope's price tag ballooned. Quoting: 'Something wasn't adding up.
How could the telescope be more than three-quarters complete after $3.5
billion, but require more than double that amount to finish it? Also, how
did the launch date get bumped by three years, to 2018? And how did 6.5
billion become a disastrous $8.7 billion so quickly? So I did a little
digging around, and perhaps a little investigative reporting as well, and
got ahold of a Webb Project Scientist who's also a member of the Webb
Science Working Group.'" Whether or not you buy the argument that the
money's well-spent (at $5 billion or $8 billion, or either side of
these), even the work in progress is beautiful.
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1925209/How-the-Webb-Space-Telescope-Got-So-Expensive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/
1. http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/how_the_us_government_chose_to.php
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| Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet
| from the from-whence-comes-unobtanium dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @13:40 (Space)
| with 55 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1545211/Kepler-Discovers-Phantom-Exoplanet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "The Kepler space telescope has spotted an
extra-solar planet with a very odd orbit. Sometimes Kepler-19b slows down
by five minutes during its 9-day orbit. Other times it speeds up by five
minutes. Johannes Kelper's laws of orbital dynamics never said a
celestial body can arbitrarily speed up and slow down; another planetary
body must therefore be gravitationally acting on Kepler-19b. Enter
Kepler-19c, a world that [1]hasn't been observed, but its gravitational
effects have. This is an unprecedented discovery, one that could
potentially be used in multi-planetary star systems to discover more
'phantom' worlds that would have otherwise gone unnoticed."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1545211/Kepler-Discovers-Phantom-Exoplanet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/kepler-discovers-phantom-menace-110909.html
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| SAP To Plead Guilty For Downloading Oracle Software
| from the how-to-imprison-a-corporation dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @08:26 (Businesses)
| with 42 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0523211/SAP-To-Plead-Guilty-For-Downloading-Oracle-Software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Slashdot readers will remember that on Sept. 1, a
federal judge [1]overturned a $1.3 billion judgment and approved SAP's
request that Oracle accept a lower award of $272 million. Now, according
to court documents filed this week, former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow
will [2]plead guilty to criminal charges of copyright infringement for
downloading software from Oracle's servers. Sentencing will take place at
a hearing on Sept. 14."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0523211/SAP-To-Plead-Guilty-For-Downloading-Oracle-Software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/206242/Judge-Nixes-Lowers-Oracles-13B-Award-Against-SAP
2. http://www.itworld.com/software/201825/sap-plead-guilty-doj-criminal-charges
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| Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices
| from the making-things-pretty dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @08:52 (GUI)
| with 36 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0543231/Inside-Netflixs-WebKit-Based-UI-For-TV-Devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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DeviceGuru writes with this interesting snippet on a modern approach to
GUI design: "Netflix uses WebKit, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 to build
user interfaces that are delivered to millions of game consoles, Blu-ray
players, Internet-connected TVs, and devices such as the Roku player and
D-Link Boxee Box. Matt McCarthy and Kim Trott, device UI engineering
managers at Netflix, have just published [0]50 presentation slides from
their [1]recent talk at OSCON 2011 in which they explained how Netflix
develops its WebKit-based user interfaces."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/0543231/Inside-Netflixs-WebKit-Based-UI-For-TV-Devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://deviceguru.com/netflix-webkit-based-ui-for-tv-devices/
1. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19045
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| Security Researchers Crack APCO P25 Encryption
| from the breaker-breaker-this-is-roscoe-p-coltrane dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @11:40 (Communications)
| with 31 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1539217/Security-Researchers-Crack-APCO-P25-Encryption?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Two Australian security researchers, Stephen
Glass and Matt Robert, have published a paper that details [0]flaws in
the encryption implementation (PDF) in the [1]APCO Project 25 digital
radio standard, used by emergency services and police departments
world-wide. The paper details flaws in the DES-OFB and ADP encryption
that enable the encryption key to be recovered by traditional brute force
key searching. Also detailed is a DoS attack that makes use of
unauthenticated radio inhibit mechanism. The research is part of the
[2]OP25 project, which uses [3]GNUradio to implement a P25 stack using
software defined radio. With this solution in place, the researchers were
able to do detailed analysis of the traffic coming from various radio
systems and to transmit and receive to P25 radios in their lab."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1539217/Security-Researchers-Crack-APCO-P25-Encryption?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nicta.com.au/pub?doc=5076
1. http://www.apco911.org/frequency/project25.php
2. http://132.234.113.119/op25
3. http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki
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| NASA's Twin GRAIL Craft On Their Way To the Moon
| from the they-could-have-saved-gemini-for-this dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @15:39 (Moon)
| with 27 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1819244/NASAs-Twin-GRAIL-Craft-On-Their-Way-To-the-Moon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]sighted writes "The twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior
Laboratory ([1]GRAIL) spacecraft [2]lifted off from Cape Canaveral this
morning. GRAIL-A is scheduled to reach the moon on New Year's Eve 2011,
while GRAIL-B will arrive New Year's Day 2012. The two solar-powered
spacecraft will fly in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its
gravity field. Lunar explorers hope the mission will answer longstanding
questions about the moon 'from crust to core.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1819244/NASAs-Twin-GRAIL-Craft-On-Their-Way-To-the-Moon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots.org/
1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/main/index.html
2. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20110908b.html
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| GlobalSign Web Server Hacked, But Not CA
| from the goes-the-story-thus-far dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @17:43 (Security)
| with 26 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/2129239/GlobalSign-Web-Server-Hacked-But-Not-CA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "GlobalSign has found evidence that its main Web
server was compromised recently, but has [0]not discovered any
indications that its certificate authority infrastructure was hacked,
contrary to claims by the attacker responsible for the DigiNotar CA
hack."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/2129239/GlobalSign-Web-Server-Hacked-But-Not-CA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/globalsign-says-web-server-was-hacked-no-signs-ca-breach-091011
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