My Weekly #Roundup #62 - #SSLv2 #HackingTeam #Oscar

Interesting week! A new TLS/SSL attack, signs of life from HackingTeam, some LOL-HTTP-Cats pictures, Academy Award to Di Caprio and Morricone!

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Security & Privacy

• DROWN attack breaking TLS using SSLv2: more than 13 million sites at risk

• Many sites block visitors that use Tor

• Apple’s iPhone Already Has a Backdoor

• Undetected Mac malware sighted online: HackingTeam has returned?

• The DROWN security hole – what you need to know

• Got ransomware? What are your options?

• Juniper Backdoor Password Goes Public

• Malice or Stupidity or Inattention? Using Code Reviews to Find Backdoors

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Geekness

• Italians Compare the Arrival of Starbucks to the Apocalypse

• 2015’s ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ honors encryption pioneers

• HTTP Status Cats

• Oculus Rift will support Macs ‘when Apple makes a good computer’

• Everything You Need to Know About Jessica Jones

• Make Your Own Maze With Lego Labyrinth

• What Happens When You Put Marshmallows in a Vacuum

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Programming

• Benchmarking .NET code

• Vega-Lite, a high-level format for rapidly creating visualizations for analysis and presentation.

• Content Modeling With Jekyll

• Natural Language Processing With Apache Spark

• Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster

• Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX

• Making a Simple Site Work Offline with ServiceWorker

• Creating Cool Charts in PHP

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Music

• Ennio Morricone wins Best Original Score for The Hateful Eight

• The Musician’s Paradise Workspace

• Classical Guitar and fingernails: the Scott Tennant’s point of view

• Wooden Hand-Cranked Instrument Runs on 2,000 Marbles

• Ennio Morricone’s Thank You Cam Speech

• Watch Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Perform ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’

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Wellness & Running

• When Amateur Ironmen Pay for the Elite Treatment

• Detox and Cleansing – What Truth Is There to the Myth?

• Runner finds a creative way to propose using a fitness app

• It All Depends on Your Diet: Tips for Building Muscles

• Nike LunarEpic exclusive first look