28th October 2012 Archive

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• British IT consultant talks of his three years as an Iraqi hostage

  Days of PlayStation, systems design and mock executions

  Peter Moore, the British IT consultant who spent 946 days as a hostage in Iraq, has been telling users of Reddit.com about the highs and lows of his stint as the country's longest-serving hostage. Moore, an IT consultant who specializes in overseas work in developing countries, spent 31 months as a captive of Shi'ite militia …

  Developer 28 Oct 01:28

• Another systematic SCADA vuln

  CoDeSys environment gives World+Dog networked command-line root

  If it’s Monday, it must be time for a new SCADA vulnerability: this time, arising through the combination of a popular development environment and bad developer habits. Described in full by Digital Bond researcher Reid Wightman here, as many as 261 manufacturers and heaven-knows-how-many deployed systems may have created …

  Security 28 Oct 22:08

• ANSTO confirms synchrotron rescue

  Takeover to be complete by January 2013

  The final piece in the Australian Synchrotron rescue puzzle has fallen into place, with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation confirming that it is to take over management of the facility. The future of the synchrotron was put in doubt last year following a change of government in Victoria. The incoming …

  Science 28 Oct 22:22

• Android, heal thyself

  Podcast Android's security will be improved by users upgrading to newer versions

  Google's Android mobile operating system is now on a par with others when it comes to security, says Accuvant security researcher Joshua Drake, aka jduck. But there are still problems in the operating system, not least a staggered update process. Then there's webkit, which permeates the operating system but is developed …

  Security 28 Oct 23:42