United Airlines to revamp scheduling to fight flight delays (Yahoo Security) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:59 pm)

Uber hires researchers who hacked Chrysler Uconnect (ArsTechnica) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:59 pm)

Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Anatomy Class (Schneier blog) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:59 pm)

Exclusive: Russia's Kaspersky threatened to 'rub out' rival, email shows (Yahoo Secu SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:59 pm)

Can corruption be wiped out in Guatemala? AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:29 pm)

President Otto Perez Molina faces impeachment proceedings after string of senior officials resign over fraud scandal.
How Do Mobile Experts Use Mobility and What Does it Mean for Retailers? (IT Toolbox SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:29 pm)

Maintaining Security in the Cloud by Using a Cloud Security Checklist (IT Toolbox Bl SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:29 pm)

Mickens on Security (Schneier blog) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:28 pm)

Uber Hires the Hackers Who Wirelessly Hijacked a Jeep (WIRED) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:28 pm)

Finland detains Russian citizen accused of computer fraud in U.S. (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:28 pm)

External Link: Adam Engst Goes Automotive on The Tech Night Owl Live TidBITS(cached at August 28, 2015, 11:02 pm)

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Symantec Researchers Find 49 New Modules of Regin Spying Tool Slashdotby Soulskill on security at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 28, 2015, 11:02 pm)

itwbennett writes: Security researchers from Symantec have identified 49 more modules (bringing the total number found so far to 75) of the sophisticated Regin cyberespionage platform that many believe is used by the U.S. National Security Agency and its close allies. Some of the modules implement basic malware functions, while other modules are much more specialized and built with specific targets in mind. 'One module was designed to monitor network traffic to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers, another was observed collecting administration traffic for mobile telephony base station controllers, while another was created specifically for parsing mail from Exchange databases,' the Symantec researchers said in an updated version of their white paper (PDF) published Thursday.

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Two pro-Kurdish MPs part of Turkey's interim government AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at August 28, 2015, 10:59 pm)

President approves government that will lead nation until November 1 election, including two members of pro-Kurdish HDP.
Adobe Flash steadily heading toward demise (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at August 28, 2015, 10:58 pm)

Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorith Slashdotby Soulskill on math at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at August 28, 2015, 10:32 pm)

An anonymous reader writes: In Dropbox's "Hack Week" this year, a team of ten engineers built the fantasy Pied Piper algorithm from HBO's Silicon Valley, achieving 13% lossless compression on Mobile-recorded H.264 videos and 22% on arbitrary JPEG files. Their algorithm can return the compressed files to their bit-exact values. According to FastCompany, "Its ability to compress file sizes could actually have tangible, real-world benefits for Dropbox, whose core business is storing files in the cloud."The code is available on GitHub under a BSD license for people interested in advancing the compression or archiving their movie files.

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