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While stopping short of an outright ban, the social media company plans to label or take down material that appears to have been digitally manipulated.
Published: February 3, 2020 at 06:00PM
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Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp have agreed to set up a joint venture that will begin developing electric vehicle (EV) batteries from April, as the Japanese companies gear up for an expected surge in demand.
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Almost three-quarters of enterprises plan to have a zero-trust access model by the end of the year, but nearly half of cybersecurity professionals lack the knowledge to implement the right technologies, experts say.
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Six of them were the same as from the previous year, according to new Recorded Future analysis.
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Thousands of servers could be exposed to SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2019-0604, recently used in cyberattacks against Middle East government targets.
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A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service.
David Bukoski, 24, of Hanover Township, Pa., pleaded guilty to running Quantum Stresser, an attack-for-hire business — also known as a “booter” or “stresser” service — that helped paying customers launch tens of thousands of digital sieges capable of knocking Web sites and entire network providers offline.
The landing page for the Quantum Stresser attack-for-hire service.
Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. The government says Quantum Stresser had more than 80,000 customer subscriptions, and that during 2018 the service was used to conduct approximately 50,000 actual or attempted attacks targeting people and networks worldwide.
The Quantum Stresser Web site — quantumstress[.]net — was among 15 booter services that were seized by U.S. and international authorities in December 2018 as part of a coordinated takedown targeting attack-for-hire services.
Federal prosecutors in Alaska said search warrants served on the email accounts Bukoski used in conjunction with Quantum Stresser revealed that he was banned from several companies he used to advertise and accept payments for the booter service.
The government’s sentencing memorandum says Bukoski’s replies demanding to know the reasons for the suspensions were instrumental in discovering his real name. FBI agents were able to zero in on Bukoski’s real-life location after a review of his email account showed a receipt from May 2018 in which he’d gone online and ordered a handmade pan pizza to be delivered to his home address.
When an online pizza delivery order brings FBI agents to raid your home.
While getting busted on account of ordering a pizza online might sound like a bone-headed or rookie mistake for a cybercriminal, it is hardly unprecedented. In 2012 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about the plight of Yuriy “Jtk” Konovalenko, a then 30-year-old Ukrainian man who was rounded up as part of an international crackdown on an organized crime gang that used the ZeuS malware to steal tens of millions of dollars from companies and consumers. In that case, Konovalenko ultimately unmasked himself because he used his Internet connection to order the delivery of a “Veggia Roma” pizza to his apartment in the United Kingdom.
Interestingly, the feds say their examination of Bukoski’s Internet browsing records showed he knew full well that running a booter service was punishable under federal law (despite disclaimers published on Quantum Stresser stating that the site’s owners weren’t responsible for how clients used the service).
“The defendant’s web browsing history was significant to investigators for a number of reasons, including the fact that it shows that the defendant browsed an article written by a prominent security researcher referencing both the defendant’s enterprise along with a competing service, including a link provided by the researcher in the article to an advisory posted by the FBI warning that the operation of booter services was potentially punishable under federal law,” reads the sentencing memo from Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Alexander.
That’s interesting because the article in question was actually a 2017 KrebsOnSecurity story about a mobile app tied to a competing booter service that happened to share some of the same content as Quantum Stresser.
That 2017 story referenced an FBI advisory that had just been issued warning the use of booter services is punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and may result in arrest and criminal prosecution.
Bukoski was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of “community confinement.” The government suggested a lenient sentence considering the defendant’s ongoing health complications, which include liver failure.
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The review comes after lawmakers raised concerns about TikTok’s growing influence in the United States.
Published: October 31, 2019 at 06:00PM
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President Trump will deliver his third address before Congress Tuesday, on the eve of the Senate’s scheduled vote on impeachment.
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La Raspberry es un ordenador de una sola placa que ha ganado mucha popularidad y que ha servido para el desarrollo de diversos proyectos, que van desde el uso del dispositivo para la implementación de AI, video vigilancia, hasta para la creación de NAS, entre otros. Y aun debido a su gran popularidad, desde hace mucho tiempo la comunidad ha solicitado que el dispositivo tenga compatibilidad con Vulkan, de lo cual hasta apenas fueron escuchadas esas peticiones.
Eben Upton (creador y desarrollador de la Raspberry) realizo un anuncio en el blog de la Raspberry, en el cual dio a conocer el inicio del trabajo en un controlador de video gratuito para el acelerador de gráficos VideoCore VI utilizado en los chips Broadcom. Esta noticia llega justo después del anuncio de que Raspberry Pi 4 es compatible con OpenGL ES 3.1.
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El nuevo controlador se basa en la API de gráficos Vulkan y está destinado principalmente a su uso con placas y modelos Raspberry Pi 4 que se lanzarán en el futuro. Igalia lidera el desarrollo del controlador, en colaboración con la Fundación Raspberry Pi.
En el caso de la GPU VideoCore IV suministrada en Raspberry Pi 3, se menciona que no es suficiente para una implementación completa de Vulkan, por lo que la integración del controlador en esta versión de la Raspberry Pi queda descartada por completo.
Vulkan se posiciona como una API de computación y gráficos de nueva generación que proporciona acceso multiplataforma de alta eficiencia a las GPU modernas.
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La API de Vulkan ha sido diseñada para acomodar mejor las GPU modernas y abordar los cuellos de botella de rendimiento comunes en OpenGL, proporcionando a los desarrolladores de gráficos nuevos medios para obtener el mejor rendimiento del hardware.
Eben Upton menciona en su publicación de blog que:
La API de Vulkan ha sido diseñada para aprovechar al máximo el hardware moderno de cómputo/gráficos, abordando cuellos de botella comunes en OpenGL.
Hasta ahora, solo se ha preparado el prototipo inicial del controlador, adecuado para realizar demostraciones simples. Está previsto que la primera versión beta, que se puede utilizar para lanzar algunas aplicaciones reales, se publique en la segunda mitad del año en curso.
En la publicación realizada por Eben Upton, muestra el trabajo se ha realizado, mostrando un triángulo RGB.
Upton comenta que esta representación del triángulo de la versión Broadcom VideoCore VI Vulkan es evidencia de “triángulo RGB impecable, de un solo mosaico” en el controlador, incluso en esta etapa temprana de desarrollo.
Actualmente no hay acceso al código, pero existe la promesa de que estará disponible más adelante. Aunque se anunció la llegada de Vulkan a la Raspberry Pi, el equipo de desarrollo menciona que esto es solo un trabajo inicial y que queda mucho trabajo por hacer.
Antes de entusiasmarse demasiado, recuerde que esto es solo el comienzo del proceso de desarrollo de Vulkan en Raspberry Pi. Si bien ha habido esfuerzos de la comunidad en la dirección del soporte de Vulkan (originalmente en VideoCore IV) desde 2018, Igalia solo ha estado trabajando en este nuevo controlador durante unas pocas semanas, y todavía tenemos una hoja de ruta de desarrollo muy larga por delante.
Además, Khronos anunció la certificación del controlador v3d Mesa (anteriormente denominado vc5), que se reconoce como totalmente compatible con OpenGL ES 3.1.
El controlador está certificado con el chip Broadcom BCM2711 utilizado en las placas Raspberry Pi 4. La obtención de un certificado le permite declarar oficialmente la compatibilidad con los estándares gráficos y utilizar las marcas comerciales asociadas de Khronos.
Finalmente, la llegada de un controlador de Vulkan oficial para la Raspberry Pi ayudara a mejorar el consumo de energía, el rendimiento y la implementación de múltiples núcleos.
Además de que beneficiara en gran medida al desarrollo en la Raspberry Pi, pues Vulkan proporcionara nuevos medios para obtener el mejor rendimiento del hardware.
Si quieres conocer más al respecto sobre la publicación, puedes consultar los detalles de ello en el siguiente enlace.
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Various APT groups are successfully using Web shell attacks on a more frequent basis.
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