I knappt tre år var kanadensaren Stephen Elop vd i Finlands flaggskepp Nokia. Under den tiden sjönk bolagets marknadsvärde med i snitt med 164 miljoner kronor om dagen. Det framgår av en ny bok om epoken Elop.

I knappt tre år var kanadensaren Stephen Elop vd i Finlands flaggskepp Nokia. Under den tiden sjönk bolagets marknadsvärde med i snitt med 164 miljoner kronor om dagen. Det framgår av en ny bok om epoken Elop.

Två israeliska soldater har skadats i ett bombattentat vid gränsen till Libanon i området Shebaagårdarna.

Två israeliska soldater har skadats i ett bombattentat vid gränsen till Libanon i området Shebaagårdarna.

Ever done a quick vulnerability check only to discover that someone found that vulnerability before you did and already had the system compromised?

During the early stages of a vulnerability scan, nmap is your friend just to quickly confirm what you got. In this case, the big surprise was that the firewall responded on port 4444. Anybody whoever dabbled with pentestingmay be familiar with this port: Metasploit uses port 4444 by default for its remote shell. Other then that, it is typically not used by any well known service.

So at this point, with a possible compromised network firewall, there isnt much point in going much further. A quick connect with netcat oddly enough let to an HTTP error. Upon furhter investigation, it tuns out the Sophosfirewalls use port 4444 for https remote administration. Typically, ports like 8000,8080 or 8443are used, but then again, maybe Sophos wanted to hide their port, or just be different.

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Världshälsoorganisationen WHO:s Europachef Zsuzsanna Jakab, säger att fler utbrott av Ebola i Europa är "oundvikligt".

Världshälsoorganisationen WHO:s Europachef Zsuzsanna Jakab, säger att fler utbrott av Ebola i Europa är "oundvikligt".

Radiosonde, weather balloon, near-space exploration package... call it what you will, but today's interviewee, Jamel Tayeb, is hanging instrument packages and cameras below balloons and sending them up to 97,000 feet (his highest so far), then recovering them 50 or 60 miles away from their liftoff points with help from a locator beacon -- and not just any locator beacon, mind you, but a special one from a company called High Altitude Science with "unlocked" firmware that allows it to work with GPS satellites from altitudes greater than 60,000 feet, which typical, off-the-shelf GPS units can't do. Here's a balloon launch video from Instructure, a company that helps create open source education systems. The point of their balloon work (and Jamel's) is not they they get to boast about what they're doing, but so you and people like you say, "I can make a functioning high altitude weather balloon system with instrumentation and a decent camera for only $1000?" This is a lot of money for an individual, but for a high school science program it's not an impossible amount. And who knows? You might break the current high-altitude balloon record of 173,900 feet. Another, perhaps more attainable record is PARIS (Paper Aircraft Released Into Space) which is currently 96,563 feet. Beyond that? Perhaps you'll want to take a crack at beating Felix Baumgartner's high altitude skydiving and free fall records. And once you are comfortable working with near space launches, perhaps you'll move on to outer space work, where you'll Elon Musk and other space transportation entrepreneurs. (Alternate Video Link)

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Radiosonde, weather balloon, near-space exploration package... call it what you will, but today's interviewee, Jamel Tayeb, is hanging instrument packages and cameras below balloons and sending them up to 97,000 feet (his highest so far), then recovering them 50 or 60 miles away from their liftoff points with help from a locator beacon -- and not just any locator beacon, mind you, but a special one from a company called High Altitude Science with "unlocked" firmware that allows it to work with GPS satellites from altitudes greater than 60,000 feet, which typical, off-the-shelf GPS units can't do. Here's a balloon launch video from Instructure, a company that helps create open source education systems. The point of their balloon work (and Jamel's) is not they they get to boast about what they're doing, but so you and people like you say, "I can make a functioning high altitude weather balloon system with instrumentation and a decent camera for only $1000?" This is a lot of money for an individual, but for a high school science program it's not an impossible amount. And who knows? You might break the current high-altitude balloon record of 173,900 feet. Another, perhaps more attainable record is PARIS (Paper Aircraft Released Into Space) which is currently 96,563 feet. Beyond that? Perhaps you'll want to take a crack at beating Felix Baumgartner's high altitude skydiving and free fall records. And once you are comfortable working with near space launches, perhaps you'll move on to outer space work, where you'll Elon Musk and other space transportation entrepreneurs. (Alternate Video Link)

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Under current regulations, Twitter cannot reveal certain information about government requests for users' data.

Kurder på flera platser i Turkiet har demonstrerat mot att den turkiska regeringen inte ingriper mot extremiströrelsen Islamiska staten (IS). Sveriges utrikesminister Margot Wallström (S) säger att Sverige kommer att fortsätta att koncentrera sig på humanitärt stöd.

Årets Nobelpris i fysik går till tre forskare som skapat en ljuskälla som finns i snart sagt varje ficka. Lysdioderna har lett till en revolution och finns nu överallt, från utomhusbelysning till mobiltelefoner. En upptäckt som också minskar trycket på Jordens resurser.

Rapporteringen kring ebola-epidemin får effekter även i Sverige. Trots att smittorisken är nästintill obefintlig verkar oron bland svenskar växa.