"Diffy" Twitter Open Source Tool That Catches Bugs Automatically

Diffy comes at Twitter apparently already longer used and is a help for teams that need to update parts of a software system in high frequency.

The micro-blogging service Twitter has with Diffy released as open source software, which automatically As for errors in Apache Thrift- and HTTP services. Thrift is communication protocol or open source framework for building interoperable and scalable services. Diffy comes at Twitter apparently already longer used and appears to be helpful for teams that work on parts of an application in high frequency. This then rarely come by when writing unit tests, which should guarantee high test coverage.

"Growing the complexity of a system, it quickly becomes impossible to achieve adequate test coverage through self-written tests," writes Puneet Khanduri, Member of Twitters Tools and Frameworks team: "Then you need more ambitious automated techniques in which developers engage only slightly must. " Diffy is what then come at Twitter, for use.

Mainly written in the Scala, Diffy operates well as a proxy that runs on the side of the old and new code side, while the behavior compares and displays any differences.

CIA Goes Next Years Increase Cyber Capabilities

The CIA in the coming years increasing cyber capabilities, so as to be prepared for the future. That CIA Director John Brennan in a " blueprint for the future "to know. According to Brennan must because of the changing threats to national security and the impact of technological developments more attention to the digital domain.

In order to achieve this are set out in the blueprint four themes. First, there must invest in people, both talent and leadership development, says Brenner. The second pillar for the future of the CIA focuses on the digital revolution. "We need our business and operations in the digital domain at the core of our businesses have been," Brennan says. To achieve this, a new leadership position, who will oversee the "cyber integration" within the CIA. Brenner suggests further third point that the intelligence to modernize the process.

"The speed of world developments and technological changes require that the CIA leaders flexible, able to take on the appropriate level, with the right information and in the interest of the organization decisions. The last pillar Brennan argues for better integration of the possibilities available to CIA offers. Thus, special mission centers operational, analytical, technical and digital personnel for key safety issues come together. When not know the blueprint must be performed exactly Brenner left.

FSF: Apple's iOS Is Harmful To Free Society

Smartphones, tablets and smart watches at this time are a terror to the freedom of users, while Apple's iOS is the absolute pinnacle. Before warns John Sullivan, executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The FSF is a non-profit organization that aims to promote "free software". This is software that users can modify the code, sharing and dissemination.

This year the organization celebrates its 30th anniversary, with the necessary reach, Sullivan says. However, there are now several areas requiring attention. This refers in particular to mobile and wearables where users have less and less freedom."IOS is the epitome of everything that we need to avoid in order to have a free society: a single gatekeeper that states that it is illegal to software that is not authorized by him, to be installed on your phone", so let him opposite Opensource .com know.

Sullivan calls it fortunate that there are currently more Android users than iOS users. "But between hardware drivers and applications they use mostly proprietary software or make them connect to a service where they have no control over." The FSF director notes that future versions of Android anytime "proprietary" can be made. "And that's frightening." Sullivan also want users to mobile, embedded and wearable systems can continue to adjust freely.

The same should apply for eg laptop hardware. "Companies like Intel chips in their build machines that run proprietary software that provides remote access to the computer," the FSF director continues. He also calls for decentralized and encrypted alternatives to services like Facebook, Google and iCloud. "If the software you run on the machine of some company runs have not the ability to inspect or modify. Time after time, this leads to abuse, such as privacy violations by both governments and individuals."

Google - Captcha Fighter Against Robots

Google has a new captcha developed to distinguish people on websites of robots, whereby it is no longer necessary to solve a puzzle first. CAPTCHAs are used inter alia for the automatic creation of accounts and post spam on websites counter.

To often distinguishable robots people must puzzles and distorted texts are resolved. Google uses recaptcha example, where there are words from books must be retyped. Our own research shows that the search giant artificial intelligence with an accuracy of 99.8% can solve the puzzles. According to Google would therefore be much easier to apply directly to users whether they are human or robot. This allows users to quickly register or use of a service, which also eliminates the annoyance of solving the captcha.

API

A new API (Application Programming Interface) makes this captcha experience now possible. On websites that use the API receives a large number of users the ability to attach a single click that they are not a robot. Although this sounds simple, the underlying technology is complex, according to the search giant. Last year was a special backend developed that performs a risk if users want to solve a captcha.

On the basis of the way in which the user handles were examined with the captcha or the user was a human. The new API is a development of this, which is looked at many factors which indicate that it is a human being. Where does the risk of insufficient evidence to make this decision will appear captcha again. In addition, the API also makes it possible to test other types of captcha's. The new API would now be used on various websites, including Snapchat, WordPress and Humble Bundle.

NSA for 2 years at the height of Heart Bleed

According to the U.S. News Agency Bloomberg NSA was familiar with the Heart Bleed bug for 2 years and she has the vulnerability in OpenSSL frequently used to gather information. Bloomberg cites sources that are "aware of the situation" are.

The decision of the NSA to keep the secret bug in the framework of national security interests, the debate about the role of computer experts from the U.S. government, revived considerably. Again

Heart Bleed seems one of the biggest leak in the history of the Internet to have. As many as two-thirds of the world's websites is touched. The discovery and the advisory that five days ago was published by researchers has led to massive consumers have changed their passwords, the Canadian government has postponed the electronic tax return and that large technology companies such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks patches for their systems released. There are also a lot of new SSL certificates issued.

The Heart Bleed bug quietly adding to the arsenal, the NSA has been able to obtain. Passwords and other important information The price for this was high. Millions of ordinary users are left to their own and all that time was vulnerable to attack by secret services and cyber criminals.

Jason Healey, director of the "cyber statecraft initiative at the Atlantic Council" and a former Air Force officer explains: "The security community will not chip them really leave after this revelation."

The NSA has just been denied before the vulnerability became public last week. Bleed Heart of informed on twitter