After their house was vandalized, long-time Slashdot reader lsllll needs some help finding a battery-powered, wifi-enabled camera that can dump motion-detected videos to a local server: There are some nice cameras out there that’ll work for nearly 5 months off a rechargeable battery. You can even pair them with a solar panel which would keep them constantly topped off. But none…
Tag: SMB
Windows 10 Themes Can Be Abused To Steal Windows Passwords
AmiMoJo writes: Specially crafted Windows 10 themes and theme packs can be used in ‘Pass-the-Hash’ attacks to steal Windows account credentials from unsuspecting users. Windows allows users to create custom themes that contain customized colors, sounds, mouse cursors, and the wallpaper that the operating system will use. Windows users can then switch between different themes as desired to change the appearance…
Copyleft and the Cloud: Where Do We Go From Here?
Free software evangelist Jeremy Allison – Sam (Slashdot reader #8,157) is a co-creator on the Samba project, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, and he also works in Google’s Open Source Programs Office. Now he shares his presentation at the Software Freedom Conservancy’s “International Copyleft Conference.” He writes: The Samba project has traditionally been one of the strongest proponents of Copyleft…