Bitcoin Bank Hacked, Theft of $6,20,000

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Flexcoin, famous for making <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoin</a> banking as easy as regular banking, is no more. The company shut its doors on Tuesday morning after hackers stole 896 bitcoins (nearly $620,000) from its vault on Sunday. And the most unsettling thing? That wasn't even the only bitcoin heist last weekend.<br />
To <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Flexcoin" target="_blank">Flexcoin's</a> credit, it wasn't completely cleaned out by hackers. Hackers did clean out Flexcoin's hot wallet, but an undisclosed number of bitcoins in cold storage were untouched. "Cold storage" simply means that the bitcoins were kept in computers <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage" target="_blank">not connected to the internet</a>, an extra level of security for which customers pay an extra 0.5 percent. Flexcoin will give those bitcoins back to customers. Those whose bitcoins were stolen are, well, they're shit out of luck because bitcoins aren't insured like good ol' greenbacks are in most banks.<br />
If this sounds like a familiar story, that's because it is. On Tuesday, another bitcoin firm called <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580" target="_blank">Polonix</a> also admitted that hackers broke in and stole 12.5 percent of its reserves, though it plans on replenishing the lost 'coin itself. And who could forget the infamous implosion of Mt.Gox, the Japan-based bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy last week and announced that $424 million worth of cryptocurrency was lost and gone forever. Those just a couple of the major heists and boondoggles on a growing list of heists and boondoggles.<br />
But what do you expect. The burgeoning bitcoin industry is famously unstable and <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerable</a>. Sure, it's an exciting idea for the sake of liberty and anarchy and whatever! It's just not the safest way to store your money right now, is all.</div>

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Cisco offers $300k for security solutions

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Cisco has launched a new competition and is calling on "visionaries, innovators, and implementers" to propose practical solutions for issues affecting security of the Internet of Things.<br />
"We’re connecting more of our world every day through smart, IP-enabled devices ranging from home appliances, healthcare devices, and industrial equipment. These new connected devices are offering new ways to share information and are changing the way we live," says Christopher Young, senior VP for the security group at <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a>.<br />
"Yet, as our connected lives grow and become richer, the need for a new security model becomes even more critical. It requires that we work together as a community to find innovative solutions to make sure that the IoT securely fulfills its potential and preserves the convenience that it represents."<br />
Young announced the Challenge last week in his keynote address at the <a href="http://www.net-security.org/event/rsaconference2014" target="_blank">RSA Conference</a>, and has offered more details in a <a href="http://blogs.cisco.com/security/join-the-challenge-secure-the-internet-of-things/" target="_blank">blog post</a>. <br />
<a href="http://www.ninesights.com/community/cisco" target="_blank">The Internet of Things Security Grand Challenge</a> has a prize pot of $300,000 - a maximum of 6 winners will receive awards from $50,000 to $75,000. Also good to know that all participants will have an opportunity for additional collaboration with Cisco beyond the challenge.<br />
The proposals' feasibility, scalability, performance, and ease of use will be assessed by an evaluation panel consisting of five Cisco engineers and scientists, including Dave Evans, the company's Chief Futurist.<br />
The deadline for submissions is June 17, 2014, and the winners will announced and their solutions showcased at the Internet of Things World Forum this fall.
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Tor develops its own anonymous Messenger

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The Tor Foundation is moving forward with a plan to provide its own instant messaging service. Called the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle, the tool will allow people to communicate in real time while preserving anonymity by using chat servers concealed within Tor’s hidden network.<br />
In planning since last July—as news of the National Security Agency’s broad surveillance of instant messaging traffic emerged—the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle (TIMB) should be available in experimental builds by the end of March, based on a <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2014WinterDevMeeting/notes/RoadmapTIMB" target="_blank">roadmap</a> published in conjunction with the <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2014WinterDevMeeting" target="_blank">Tor Project’s Winter Dev meeting in Iceland</a>.<br />
TIMB will connect to instant messaging servers configured as Tor “hidden services” as well as to commercial IM services on the open Internet.<br />
The effort, which is funded by an <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorO" target="_blank">anonymous donor organization</a>, was originally called <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter/Attentive/Plan" target="_blank">Attentive Otter</a>. To ensure the anonymity of the user, TIMB will force all instant messaging traffic through the Tor network, regardless of whether it’s aimed at a server on the Tor network or not. TIMB will be based on <a href="http://www.instantbird.org/" target="_blank">Instantbird</a>, an open source instant messaging tool which is itself based on <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Mozilla" target="_blank">Mozilla’s</a> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XULRunner" target="_blank">XULrunner</a> cross-platform runtime environment.<br />
Instantbird was chosen after the TIMB team decided against using Pidgin or <a href="https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple" target="_blank">libpurple</a>, the GPL open-source instant messaging library used by Pidgin and Adium, mostly because of the amount of effort that would have been required to audit and maintain the library, and also because of <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005544.html" target="_blank">some concerns about how seriously Pidgin’s developers took security concerns</a>. The TIMB project will remove libpurple from Instantbird, a task that the Mozilla and Instantbird team were already working toward as they move the software to a pure JavaScript implementation.<br />
The first experimental release of TIMB won’t include “<a href="https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/" target="_blank">off the record” (OTR) capability</a>. OTR mode encrypts traffic further and uses an exchange of digital signatures to verify the identity of each party. But the signatures can’t be checked by anyone outside the instant messaging session and can’t be used to prove identity outside the session. The Tor team is hoping to develop OTR components for Instantbird and get them merged into future versions of the main Instantbird code line.</div>

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EC-Council Hacked 2014

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The security company <a href="http://www.eccouncil.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EC-Council</a> which provides multiple certificates like the Certified Ethical Hacker has been hacked by a hacker that claims to be a 'certified unethical software security professional'. The hacker hacked the EC-Council website and left the Passport of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden" target="_blank">Edward Snowden</a>. on the website.<br />
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As you can see in the image above, the website of EC-Council has been defaced by an hacker. The hacker left the name of 'Eugene Belford' on the website, this refers to the movie 'Hackers'. The hacker also left a copy of Edward Snowden his passport on the Ec-Council website.<br />
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Ubuntu 13.10 Kernel Exploit

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A security issue affects Ubuntu 13.10 releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives<br />
<b>Saran Neti</b> reported a flaw in the ipv6 UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFI) in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (panic). (<div class="highlight pop">CVE-2013-4563</div>)<br />
<b>Mathy Vanhoef</b> discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing attack.  (<div class="highlight pop">CVE-2013-4579</div>
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<b>Andrew Honig</b> reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu function of the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) subsystem. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges on the host machine. (<div class="highlight pop">CVE-2013-4587</div>) Various other issues were also addressed.<br />
Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the apic_get_tmcct function of the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) subsystem if the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or host OS system crash. (<div class="highlight pop">CVE-2013-6367</div>)<br />
Andrew Honig reported an error in the Linux Kernel's Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) VAPIC synchronization operation. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash).<br />
Source:<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2117-1/" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a> </div>

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Google is monitoring Wikipedia

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Thomas Steiner, a Customer Solutions Engineer at <a href="http://rahlabs.blogspot.in/search/label/Google" target="_blank">Google</a> Germany GmbH, Hamburg has created an application that shows in a very clear way, how much of Wikipedia entries are being created or edited by <a href="http://rahlabs.blogspot.in/search/label/Bots" target="_blank">bots</a>, versus humans. He's also written a paper describing his efforts and posted it on the preprint server arXiv.<br />
Many people may not realize it, but some of the information appearing on Wikipedia is put there by bots, rather than human beings. This is because Wikipedia has grown too large to be managed by people alone, especially when noting it's still mostly a volunteer effort.<br />
To keep entries coming and to keep them updated, bots have been created—they grab information from one place and post them into another, thus, they're not actually writers or composer, they're more like auditors updating files automatically. Also, many people may not know that the folks at Wikipedia have also created another information repository—Wikidata—it's a database whose sole purpose is to share data amongst the difference language versions of Wikipedia. If a user in the U.S. enters information about the results of the New York Marathon into a Wiki entry, for example, that data can be automatically ported to Wikidata, where other bots can retrieve it, convert it to the pertinent language and post it to another language version of Wikipedia—all rather seamlessly to readers.<br />
Because of all the automation, some have begun to wonder what portion of Wiki pages are generated by humans versus bots. That's where Steiner comes in—he's written an application that can be <a href="http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank"><b>accessed and used</b></a> by anyone to see—in real time—what percentage of pages are being written by humans, versus bots.<br />
The application also allows for noting other aspects of Wikipedia—a quick glance, for example reveals that bots are doing a lot more of the work adding information to pages in non-English speaking countries, which suggests that the majority of Wikipedia content is still being created by real human beings in the U.S. and the U.K. The application also monitors activity on Wikidata, for those who are interested and also displays the data for both in a way that shows which bots are most active.<br />
Steiner has also published the code for the application, making it open source. That should allow those who are interested in the murky world of bots to gain an insider's perspective, and perhaps, to add to the applications utility.<br />
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<b>More information:</b> Bots vs. Wikipedians, Anons vs. Logged-Ins, arXiv:1402.0412 [cs.DL] <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0412">arxiv.org/abs/1402.0412</a><br />
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Wikipedia is a global crowdsourced encyclopedia that at time of writing is available in 287 languages. Wikidata is a likewise global crowdsourced knowledge base that provides shared facts to be used by Wikipedias. In the context of this research, we have developed an application and an underlying Application Programming Interface (API) capable of monitoring realtime edit activity of all language versions of Wikipedia and Wikidata. This application allows us to easily analyze edits in order to answer questions such as "Bots vs. Wikipedians, who edits more?", "Which is the most anonymously edited Wikipedia?", or "Who are the bots and what do they edit?". To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time such an analysis could be done in realtime for Wikidata and for really all Wikipedias—large and small. Our application is available publicly online at the URL this http URL, its code has been open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.<br />
Source: <a href="http://phys.org/" target="_blank">Phys</a></div>

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Win 100GB of Free OneDrive Storage

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Microsoft yesterday rebranded SkyDrive to <a href="https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/" target="_blank">OneDrive</a>, so the company decided to give away 100 GB of storage for one year free of charge for 100,000 users.<br />
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All prizes have been claimed really quickly on Twitter, so Microsoft has <a href="https://twitter.com/onedrive/status/436258376637747201" target="_blank">announced</a> a new contest that could bring users 100 GB of free storage in their accounts.<br />
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Basically, you need to pay a visit to a Microsoft store, log in with your OneDrive credentials (or create an account if you don’t have one right now) and you get a chance to win the grand prize. Microsoft says that 10,000 users will be rewarded with the free storage, with the contest ending on February 23.<br />
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By default, OneDrive comes with 7 GB of free storage, so this could be a really good way to keep more files in the cloud for one year without paying a cent for it.</div>

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