Scott Mortimer @ScottMortimer@infosec.exchange
Information Security geek, Old School RPG nerd, and wannabe fiction writer.
Joined May 2017
Europe Billed Galileo as Its Answer to GPS. It’s Been Mostly Down for Days.
The European Union sees the service as a way to end the bloc’s reliance on GPS, which the American military controls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/europe/galileo-outage.html
Analysis of 100'000 Top WordPress Sites | HackerTarget.com
Analysis of the worlds 100'000 Top WordPress Sites. Download the Full List and see who is updating, plugins, themes, and hosting.
Adding untrustworthy CAs isn't just bad policy and hurtful to your reputation; it's damaging to the entire Internet ecosystem.
Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist
Maker of Firefox fires fox from hen house guard duty
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/10/mozilla_darkmatter_ban/
Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4
"I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision," says co-creator.
Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies
Huawei staff admitted to having worked with Chinese intelligence agencies in a “mass trove” of employment records leaked online, according to an analysis of the files.
ICE Tower Raspberry Pi 4 fan and heatsink drops temperature from 80°C to 40°C - Geeky Gadgets
Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking to push their new Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC to its limits may be interested in a new Raspberry Pi 4 cooling fan aptly named the ICE Tower, which is now available to purchase priced at $19.90. Due to the increased power and performance from the Raspberry Pi 4 the mini PC runs a lot hotter than the previous versions....
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/raspberry-pi-4-fan-and-heatsink-05-07-2019/
UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS' | ZDNet
UK government and local ISPs are putting the pressure on browsers to drop plans to support DoH protocol.
Five reasons English speakers struggle to learn foreign languages
It's no secret that English speakers struggle to learn foreign languages but there are good reasons to explain their woes that can't just be put down to the fact that all young Europeans speak English. Linguistics expert Michelle Sheehan looks at five of them in this article from The Conversation.
https://www.thelocal.com/20190703/five-reasons-english-speakers-struggle-to-learn-foreign-languages
The Quantum Menace
The impact of quantum computing on cryptography conducts research and development towards a Post-Quantum era.
Raspberry PI 4 Released - Complete specs and pricing - nixCraft
Raspberry Pi 4 released. It is a comprehensive upgrade to provide a PC-like performance with 4 core CPU+4GB ram running on forthcoming Debian Linux 10.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/raspberry-pi-4-released-complete-specs-and-pricing/
Cloudflare launches decentralized service for generating random numbers | ZDNet
New "League of Entropy" service will generate a stream of random numbers using five servers located across the globe.
Cloudflare launches decentralized service for generating random numbers (ZDNet) https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-launches-decentralized-service-for-generating-random-numbers/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
Microsoft Releases Sysmon 10 With DNS Query Logging Feature
Microsoft has released Sysmon 10 today and with it comes the eagerly anticipated DNS Query Logging feature. This feature will allow Sysmon users to log DNS queries performed on a monitored computer, which will also include the executable that performed the query.
Microsoft Releases Sysmon 10 With DNS Query Logging Feature https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-sysmon-10-with-dns-query-logging-feature/
Google Wants to Change How Cookies Are Used
Google I/O is a good place to announce a whole lot of new privacy features “coming soon.” It is also a good place to bury plans to change how Google will handle HTTP cookies in Chrome.
https://duo.com/decipher/google-wants-to-change-how-cookies-are-used
Nice Android Web Browser that allows the addition of extensions like uBlock and uMatrix.
XDA Labs | Kiwi Browser
Kiwi Browser by arnaud42 - 4.85/5 (169 ratings)
https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.kiwibrowser.browser
Check if your browser uses Secure DNS, DNSSEC, TLS 1.3, and Encrypted SNI - gHacks Tech News
Cloudflare's Browsing Experience Security Check online tool tests the capabilities of the web browser in regards to certain privacy and security related features.
Want universal Ad Blocking and Private DNS on Android 9?
https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html#instruction
Information Security geek, Old School RPG nerd, and wannabe fiction writer.
Joined May 2017
