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    redlukas got a reaction from MoonSpot in Your dynamic IP address is now protected personal data under EU law   
    The EU's court has ruled that dynamic IPs can no longer be stored by websites without there being a explicit reason like protecting the website against attacks. The plaintif (a member of the german pirate party) has argued that by storing his IP a website owner could over time build up a profile of his interests and should therefore be counted as "personal data" and be protected as such.
    Since the EU has begun enforcing stricter policies on cookies (such as having a banner that warns users that they are being tracked) it has been increasingly difficult for website operators to track its customers for statistics and advertising purposes.
    In its argument, the EU court has emphasized the legitimate need of website owners to guard against cyberattacks and that it views storing each visitors IP as a reasonable means to ensure cybersecurity. It is therefore likely that dynamic IPs will still be stored going forward, but only for administrative purposes, not for statistics and marketing. as ArsTechnica notes: " The case now goes back to the German Federal Court of Justice, which will make its judgment based on the CJEU's opinion. Given the top court's reasoning, it seems likely that Breyer won't be granted an injunction restraining Germany's federal sites from storing data about his visits. "
     
     
    Source 1: Ars Technica (20.10.16 1000 GMT+1)
    Source 2: Der Strandard (German Source) (20.10.16 1000 GMT+1)
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    redlukas got a reaction from Ghostay in Millions of Firefox Users are vulnerable to attack   
    Millions of Firefox user might be vulnerable to a new kind of exploit. It uses a weakness in Mozillas Browser: lacking compartmentalisation of extensions. By using the capabilities and privileges of one or more of the vulnerable extensions, attacker could force a Browser to open a Website containing malicous content and eventually execute arbitrairy code on the victim's machine.
    Of the top 10 most popular add-ons vetted by Mozilla officials and made available on the Mozilla website, only Adblock Plus was found to contain no flaws.
    The Attack seem to be in the proof-of-concept stage, there are no reports of the vulnerability being exploited in the wild.
    EDIT: For the attack to be properly executed, a victim would have to download a compromised add-on in the first place.
    The Ball is now in Mozilla's park since only a proper vetting of extensions would lead to a short-term resolution of the problem.
     
    Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/noscript-and-other-popular-firefox-add-ons-open-millions-to-new-attack/
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    redlukas got a reaction from alpenwasser in LTT Storage Rankings   
    Hardware
    CASE: Synology DS 1817+
    PSU: Built-in 250W
    UPS: 350W APC Back-UPS
    MB: Synologys Own
    CPU: Intel Atom C2538 (Quad Core 2.4 GHz)
    HS: Stock Synology heatsink (Passive)
    RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333
    Extension Unit: None
    Raid Controller: Intel ICH10R
    HDD 1:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 2:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 3:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 4:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 5:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 6:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 7:  8TB Western Digital Red, WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
    HDD 8:  Empty Slot (will be filled when capacity needs increase)
    RAID: SHR-2
     
    Software and Configuration:
    I'm running Synology DSM 6.1.4-15217 Update 5
    The Disks are in a SHR configuration with a fault Tolerance of two Disks. The Filesystem is Formatted in BTRFS.
    Usage:
    I use the storage for movies and series, it has SickBeard and CouchPotato with Transmission set up on it, so that populates my Libraries. i have XBMC and Plex running on a dedicated Machine. I also use the NAS for practically all my files and Backup for my PCs
    Backup:
    Important Files are backed up both on Dropbox and Google Drive.
    Additional info:
    There is a PCIe Slot in the DS 1817+ that is much talked about. It could host either a 10GbE NIC or a M.2 SSD. In my setup it is currently unpopulated, since the troughput or read access time is not an issue for me at the moment.

    Photos:
    Picture one is of the NAS with the UPS, second one is of the Disk Station Manager, showing the config, third one is how they show up in Windows



     
     
     
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