BSD and Security: LibreSSL, OpenBSD, and Latest Incidents (Cautionary Tales)

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Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published
Ingo shows that if a program is difficult to document, then it is likely due to serious flaws in the program's design.
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[OpenBSD] Request for testing
Hi,
If you ever thought about getting more involved and learning a bit
about buikdling a current OpenBSD, there's a call for testing athttps://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=154521488707434&w=2
Testing would provide me with valuable data about performance of
memory management in multi-threaded applications.Thanks,
-Otto
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A Major [Cracking] Spree Gets Personal for German Politicians
The trove of leaked documents is massive, but early assessments indicate that it seems focused less on exposing state secrets than it does on revealing deeply personal information about its targets. The exposed data includes internal political communications, like emails and scans of faxes, along with credit card information, home addresses, phone numbers, personal identification card details, private chat logs, and even voicemails from relatives and children.
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“Security researcher” dumps files of German chancellor, legislators, bloggers
Today, a German government spokesperson acknowledged that at least some of the documents appear to be genuine, dating back to 2017. German deputy government spokesperson Martina Fietz told reporters that "personal data and documents belonging to hundreds of politicians and public figures were published on the Internet... the government is taking this incident very seriously." The data includes home addresses, mobile telephone numbers, letters, invoices, and copies of identity documents.
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Marriott Concedes 5 Million Passport Numbers Lost to [Crackers] Were Not Encrypted
On Friday the firm said that teams of forensic and data analysts had identified “approximately 383 million records as the upper limit” for the total number of guest reservations records lost, though the company still says it has no idea who carried out the attack, and it suggested the figure would decline over time as more duplicate records are identified. The revised figure is still the largest loss in history, greater than the attack on Equifax, the consumer credit-reporting agency, which lost the driver’s license and Social Security numbers of roughly 145.5 million Americans in 2017, leading to the ouster of its chief executive and a huge loss of confidence in the firm.
What made the Starwood attack different was the presence of passport numbers, which could make it far easier for an intelligence service to track people who cross borders. [...]
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