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Three Paper Thursday: Attacking the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network

People have tried to develop many different attack vectors on cryptocurrencies, from codebase flaws, cryptographic algorithms, mining processes, consensus protocols and block propagation mechanisms to the underlying network layer. Most attacks could be patched quickly by modifying the source code, but preventing attacks that exploit the network layer remains a non-trivial problem as the network … Continue reading Three Paper Thursday: Attacking the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network



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#440992 - Spanish Potato Salad Recipe



4 Classic SPANISH TAPAS using Potatoes

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#441002 - Shiso Pesto Pasta Recipe



Pistou made from green shiso (perilla leaves) tossed with Capellini. The fresh minty Japanese herb is paired beautifully with grassy olive oil and a splash of yuzu juice.

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#441012 - Coconut Keto Crepes Low Carb Recipe



Coconut flour keto crepes are easy to make and absolutely delicious. You can fill them with your favorite sweet low-carb fillings for a great breakfast or healthy dessert.

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#441017 - Tomato Bruschetta Recipe



This perfect summer starter combines crispy white bread with a lemony aromatic tomato salsa and creamy burrata cheese.

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Fake crypto-wallet extensions appear in Chrome Web Store once again, siphoning off victims' passwords

'Seriously sometimes seems Google's moderators are only optimized to respond to social media outrage'

Three weeks after Google removed 49 Chrome extensions from its browser's software store for stealing crypto-wallet credentials, 11 more password-swiping add-ons have been spotted – and some are still available to download.…




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Twitter sticks a beak in, Clippy-style: Are you sure you want to set your account alight with that flame?

No, you still can't edit tweets

Although editing published tweets still remains strictly verboten on Twitter, the microblogging anger echo chamber intends to prompt English-speaking iPhone-wielding users to double-check content before posting a reply that they might regret.…




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The iMac at 22: How the computer 'too odd to succeed' changed everything ... for Apple, at least

Very '90s kit was everywhere – and it saved Apple's ass too

On this day in 1998, Steve Jobs took to the stage of the Moscone Center in San Francisco for a product launch that would indelibly change the face of computing and arguably save the firm he founded almost 22 years earlier.…




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California’s privacy warriors are back – and this time they want to take their fight all the way to the ballot box

Politicos watered down earlier efforts, so data defenders will fight to the end

The small group of policy wonks that forced California’s legislature to rush through privacy legislation two years ago are back – and this time they want a ballot.…




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American tech goliaths decide innovation is the answer to Chinese 5G dominance, not bans, national security theater

Microsoft, Cisco, Google etc gang up to form Open RAN Policy Coalition

Some of America’s super-corps have remembered how the US became the dominant global technology force it is, and have vowed to use innovation over threats to counter Chinese dominance in 5G markets.…




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Data centre reveals it modeled interiors on <i>The Hunt for Red October</i> sets

Australia bit barn outfit NEXTDC adds classic film reference to usual mix of resilience, connectivity and security

Australian serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has revealed that he told the architects of a data centre he funded to make it resemble the sets used in classic submarine flick The Hunt for Red October.…




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Australian contact-tracing app sent no data to contact-tracers for at least ten days after hurried launch

Doesn't play well on iPhones, but bureaucrats rushed it out rather than wait months for perfection. Meanwhile serious bug reports have emerged

Australia’s “COVIDSafe” contact-tracing app was rushed to market in the knowledge it would perform poorly on some devices and without agreements in place to let actual contact-tracers use the data it collects. As a result, no collected data has been used in at least 10 days since its launch.…




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Dad to kids: I've decided you don't get to take over the family business. Kids to Dad: Who wants to run Samsung anyway?

Lee Jae-yong ends dynastic control and will even let staff join a union

Samsung's heir has said that he will not pass down management of the South Korean conglomerate to his children, ending three generations dynastic rule.…




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MongoDB and Rockset link arms to figure out SQL-to-NoSQL application integration

NoSQL, no problem for Facebook-originating RocksDB

MongoDB and fellow database biz Rockset have integrated products in a bid to make it easier to work with the NoSQL database through standard relational database query language SQL.…




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Zoom bomb: Vid conf biz to snap up Keybase as not-a-PR-move move gets out of hand

Things will change forever, nods ex-Facebooker Alex Stamos

Video conferencing software biz Zoom has bought Keybase in a surprise move just weeks after hiring Facebook's one-time CSO.…




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More and more organizations are falling to ransomware – will you be next?

Tune in online this month to find out how to protect your business from data extortionists

Webcast It's been "the year of ransomware" for about the past three years. And while you may be tired of hearing about the trend and just getting used to the reality, you may also like to remember: instances of attacks are climbing – quickly – and we’re now reaching a level where more than half of ransomware schemes result in a business paying out.…




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Surge in Zoom support requests was 'unexpected', says tool team as it turns taps down

John Cena!* Online resources only for free and end users due to the 'unprecedented period'

Video conferencing darling of the hour, Zoom, has tightened up support rules in order to "better serve" users.…




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FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

High-frequency audio could be used to stealthily track netizens

Technical folks looking to improve web privacy haven't been able to decide whether sound beyond the range of human hearing poses enough of a privacy risk to merit restriction.…




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Bored at home? Cisco has just the thing: A shed-load of security fixes to install, from a Kerberos bypass to crashes

Switchzilla issues a whopping 30+ patches in time for the long UK weekend

Cisco has emitted a fresh round of software updates to address nearly three dozen security holes in its products.…




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If it feels like the software world is held together by string and a prayer, we don't blame you: Facebook SDK snafu breaks top iOS apps

Update used wrong data type, causing Tinder to Spotify to fall over

A change in the Facebook SDK backend managed to crash many popular iOS apps that integrated the code library, used for implementing various Facebook services.…




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Equinix says Zoom bought plenty more stuff in Q1. Which is just what Oracle said, too

Despite you know what, little evidence of a rush to new racks

Equinix has posted its Q1 FY2020 results for the period ending March 31st, along with some interesting insights into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted data centre consumption.…




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Samsung to launch debit card and financial-health-as-a-service service

There's revenue to be had with being a participant in the payments web, and the Apple experience to measure up against

Samsung has announced it will launch a debit card.…




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Behold: The ghastly, preening, lesser-spotted Incredible Bullsh*tting Customer

If you listen closely, you can hear how the creatures' full-throated call increases in volume when you are on holiday

On Call Friday is here! How is your weekend looking? Same as the last one, and the one before that? Never mind – before breaking into the lockdown lagers, join us for another entry in The Register's tales of those brave souls who are On Call.…




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If you miss the happier times of the 2000s, just look up today's SCADA gear which still has Stuxnet-style holes

Schneider Electric patches vulns after Trustwave raises alarm

Two Schneider Electric SCADA products had vulnerabilities similar to the ones exploited in the Iran-bothering Stuxnet worm, an infosec outfit has claimed.…




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Backup and restore on AWS is a nightmare – is there a way to speed it up?

Apparently. But we’re so incredulous, we’re gonna test those claims on live internet TV…

Webcast “The journey to cloud” echoes through all organisations. It’s a Bildungsroman – a story of empowerment and betterment. A shiny, towering cityscape of gleaming edifices and elegant spires. It’s like an ascension into the actual clouds. Like dying and waking up in heaven.…




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We dunno what's more wild: This vid of Japan's probe bouncing off an asteroid to collect a sample – or that the rock was sun-burnt

Hayabusa 2 expected to return with out-of-this-world material in December

Video Close-up footage of asteroid Ryugu, taken by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft as it touched down to retrieve a sample, reveals the near-Earth object’s surface may have been torched by the Sun as its orbit changed over time.…




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One malicious MMS is all it takes to pwn a Samsung smartphone: Bug squashed amid Android patch batch

Zero-click remote-code exec hole found by Googler, updates emitted

Samsung has patched a serious security hole in its smartphones that can be exploited by maliciously crafted text messages to hijack devices.…




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12/2/13 - To speak and remove all doubt




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5/25/14 - We were together




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7/06/14 - Never say to her




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10/26/14 - Excitement turned to something else




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01/04/15 - Be together forever




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04/05/15 - To be able to read minds




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08/02/15 - My will to live




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09/20/15 - You go back to her




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12/20/15 - To once again see the sparkle your eyes used to have




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02/14/16 - No funny story




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05/15/16 - How not to be lonely




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07/24/16 - And in their story




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08/01/16 - You never lived up to my dreams




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08/21/16 - The unexpected touch of a hand




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11/13/16 - Look into your face




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01/01/17 - Photo Booth




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04/02/17 - Finally stopped crying




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06/18/17 - Start to laugh




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08/13/17 - Doomed to failure




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09/03/17 - Bodily into heaven




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11/12/17 - Our souls are bound together




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1/14/18 - Cease to exist




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5/20/18 - Cotton Candy