InfoSec News Nuggets 2/12/2020

1 - Software errors plague Boeing's Calamity Capsule Troubled aerospace giant Boeing will "re-verify" the flight software code for its calamity capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, after it was revealed that December's anomaly could have been a lot, lot worse. Boeing had already coughed to a timer error that made the spacecraft's internal clock 11 hours out of whack while sat on the Atlas V. The result was that the Starliner managed to burn through its attitude control…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 12/06/2019

1 - How Internet resources worth R800 million were stolen and sold on the black market The theft and sale of large swaths of valuable African Internet resources was an inside job, Internet investigator Ron Guilmette has concluded after five months of detective work. Documents obtained from industry sources and public records in Uganda show that at least one insider at AFRINIC is also a shareholder of a company that received money for selling IP…
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