eBay makes users change their passwords after hack
Online marketplace eBay is forcing users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems.
The US firm said a database had been hacked between late February and early March, and had contained encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.
The company added that it had no evidence of there being unauthorised activity on its members’ accounts.
However, it said that changing the passwords was “best practice and will help enhance security for eBay users”.
The California-based company has 128 million active users and accounted for $212bn (£126bn) worth of commerce on its various marketplaces and other services in 2013.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27503290
Quantum Computing Playground
Quantum Computing Playground is a browser-based WebGL Chrome Experiment. It features a GPU-accelerated quantum computer with a simple IDE interface, and its own scripting language with debugging and 3D quantum state visualization features. Quantum Playground can efficiently simulate quantum registers up to 22 qubits, run Grover’s and Shor’s algorithms, and has a variety of quantum gates built into the scripting language itself.
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/quantum-computing-playground/
Valve Takes In-home Game Streaming Out of Beta, Supports Windows, OS X & Linux
Valve has today pushed out a new update to its Steam client on all three of the major OSes that finally takes in-home game-streaming out of beta. Similar to NVIDIA’s GameStream, which streams native gameplay from a GeForce-equipped PC to the NVIDIA SHIELD, Valve’s solution lets you stream from one PC to another, regardless of which OS it’s running.
What this means, is, you could have a SteamOS-based PC in your living-room, which is of course Linux-based, and stream games from your Windows PC in another room which ordinarily would never run under Linux. Likewise, you could stream a game from an OS X PC to a Windows one. We’re talking complete interoperability here.
While the feature was in beta, I gave it a good test and was left impressed overall. It struck me as somewhat amazing that I was streaming a game from my main Linux PC over to my Windows one, and vice versa. Simply put, this kind of functionality is long overdue, and it’s seriously awesome.
Researchers have disclosed a new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8
Researchers have disclosed a new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines via drive-by downloads or malicious attachments in email messages.
The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed to Microsoft in October, but the company has yet to produce a patch, so HP’s Zero Day Initiative, which is handling the bug, published its advisory Wednesday. The ZDI has a policy of disclosing vulnerability details after 180 days if the vendor hasn’t produced a patch.
The use-after-free flaw lies in the way that IE handles CMarkup objects, and ZDI’s advisory says that an attacker can take advantage of it to run arbitrary code.
“The allocation initially happens within CMarkup::CreateInitialMarkup. The free happens after the execution of certain JavaScript code followed by a CollectGarbage call. By manipulating a document’s elements an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process,” the ZDI advisory says.
https://threatpost.com/another-internet-explorer-zero-day-surfaces/106223
