An anonymous reader writes: Humble Bundle announced a special “pay what you want” sale for four ebooks from No Starch Press, with proceeds going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (or to the charity of your choice). This “hacker edition” sale includes two relatively new titles from 2015 — “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” and Violet Blue’s “Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, ” as well as “Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering” by Andrew “bunnie” Huang, and “The Linux Command Line”. Hackers who are willing to pay “more than the average” — currently $14.87 — can also unlock a set of five more books, which includes “The Maker’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Defend Your Base with Simple Circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi”. (This level also includes “Bitcoin for the Befuddled” and “Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking”.) And at the $15 level — just 13 cents more — four additional books are unlocked. “Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software” is available at this level, as well as “Hacking: The Art of Exploitation” and “Black Hat Python.” Nice to see they’ve already sold 28, 506 bundles, which are DRM-free and available in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI format. (I still remember Slashdot’s 2012 interview with Make magazine’s Andrew “bunnie” Huang, who Samzenpus described as “one of the most famous hardware and software hackers in the world.”) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted seven Iranians with intelligence links over a series of crippling cyberattacks against 46 U.S. financial institutions between 2011 and 2013. The indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, also accuses one of the Iranians of remotely accessing the control system of a small dam in Rye, N.Y, during the same period. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the indictment is meant to send a message: “That we will not allow any individual, group, or nation to sabotage American financial institutions or undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market.” According to the indictment, the seven men worked for two Iran-based computer security companies that have done work for the Iranian government, including the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The men allegedly carried out large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which overwhelm a server with communications in order to disable it. Read more of this story at Slashdot.