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Computer Security

• GitHub switching away from REST API password authentication, why?
• Another article about a hacker... who turned white-hat and later confessed his crimes
• Mac threats on the rise? And Jamf software advertisement.
• Good EFF article on why Public Wi-Fi is safe
• L1TF vulnerability
• PayPal security bug, contest cheater, intermittent errors, and timeline of far future events
• Security vulnerability in HockeyApp and explanation
• Find hidden Wi-Fi networks
• Trojan dependencies in 2 Python packages
• iPhone security vulnerabilities
• Docker symlink processing bug allows root filesystem access
• "Living off the land" virus evades detection, and unknown Google Nest microphone
• SQLite vulnerability
• More info on virtual machines, kernel same-page merging, row hammer, and Google Project Zero
• Kubernetes's first major security vulnerability, and SplitSpectre
• Network middleware still breaks encrpytion
• Hardware supply chain malicious spy bug, for real
• Fraudulent NPM packages
• Relating to modern-day web computing security
• Newer GitHub DDoS
• WannaCry still out and about?
• Updates on Spectre and Meltdown, Raspberry Pi not vulnerable, RISC-V, and updates on EOMA 68
• Security training links
• Sad closure of Lavabit
• Java restricted local filesystem access for security