Appeal by Barrow followed by unanimous statement by UN Security Council calling for transfer of power with undue delay.

BrianFagioli writes: If you want to use Fedora but do not want to spend time manually installing packages and repos, there is a solid alternative -- Korora. Despite the funny-sounding name, it is a great way to experience Fedora in a more user-friendly way. Wednesday, version 25, code-named 'Gurgle', became available for release.

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As the latest trials for 9/11 suspects conclude, the debate over the use of the military prison continues.

US president's order for full-scale review of alleged campaign-season cyberattacks elicits sharp criticism of CIA.

Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz writes: A Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files on a figure at the center of dozens of 20th century conspiracy theories reveals a rare glimpse into the Bureau's real-life "X-Files" -- which the agency had long maintained don't exist. And while there's no evidence yet of Mulder or Scully, the files do include a story of flying saucers and secret assassins stranger than anything on the show. Specifically the documents detail the FBI's 1947 investigation into "flying discs" reported by early conspiracy theorist Fred Lee Crisman, describing "the Maury Island Incident" (picked up by U.S newspapers) which helped popularize the legend of UFO witnesses being detained by "men in black". Ironically, Crisman was later linked to one of the CIA's anti-Castro groups, connecting him another popular topic for conspiracy theorists: the assassination of President Kennedy.

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Perl virtual environment

Hard-coded replacements for perl-core/ dependencies and dependencies with odd names in Gentoo

After deadly ambush, army units moved from southern positions to city's east where most of the fighting is concentrated.

After deadly ambush, army units moved from southern positions to city's east where most of the fighting is concentrated.

Reports say police evacuating area after two blasts in the country's biggest city.

Reports say police evacuating area after two blasts in the country's biggest city.

Diary reader Wayne Smith shared an interesting malicious document with us. Wayne also provided us with his own analysis: this malicious document sleeps and checks the time online before it activates its payload.

First we take a look at the sample (md5 7EAB96D2BC04CA155DE035815B88EE00) with oledump.py.

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Analysis of this obfuscated code reveals that it is a downloader with a particular property (for a maldoc): before downloading and executing the payload, this VBS code will sleep for 5 minutes, checking the elapsed time every minute by querying http://time.nist.gov:13.

By sleeping and checking the time online, this sample hopes to evade detection by sandboxes that do time acceleration without interfering with online time checking. This sample will sleep indefinitely when online time querying fails.

Didier Stevens
Microsoft MVP Consumer Security
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NVISO

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Security firm Forcepoint has discovered a DDoS competition which requires participants install a DDoS software which contains a backdoor. An anonymous reader quotes CSO: A hacker in Turkey has been trying to encourage distributed denial-of-attacks by making it into a game, featuring points and prizes for attempting to shut down political websites... Users that participate will be given a tool known as Balyoz, the Turkish word for Sledgehammer, that can be used to launch DDoS attacks against a select number of websites... The attack tool involved is designed to only harass 24 political sites related to the Kurds, the German Christian Democratic Party -- which is led by Angela Merkel -- and the Armenian Genocide, and others... Forcepoint noticed that the DDoS attack tool given to the participants also contains a backdoor that will secretly install a Trojan on the computer.

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Security firm Forcepoint has discovered a DDoS competition which requires participants install a DDoS software which contains a backdoor. An anonymous reader quotes CSO: A hacker in Turkey has been trying to encourage distributed denial-of-attacks by making it into a game, featuring points and prizes for attempting to shut down political websites... Users that participate will be given a tool known as Balyoz, the Turkish word for Sledgehammer, that can be used to launch DDoS attacks against a select number of websites... The attack tool involved is designed to only harass 24 political sites related to the Kurds, the German Christian Democratic Party -- which is led by Angela Merkel -- and the Armenian Genocide, and others... Forcepoint noticed that the DDoS attack tool given to the participants also contains a backdoor that will secretly install a Trojan on the computer.

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City once notorious globally for its thick blanket of smog now outperforms San Francisco, Melbourne, Paris and Berlin.