Latest Security Patches and FUD/Drama
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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, firefox, and freerdp), Debian (netqmail and python-django), Fedora (cacti, cacti-spine, dbus, firefox, gjs, mbedtls, mozjs68, and perl), Oracle (freerdp and kernel), Scientific Linux (bind and firefox), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (krb5-appl, libcroco, libexif, libreoffice, libxml2, qemu, transfig, and vim), and Ubuntu (firefox, freerdp, and python-django).
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Tor from Telmex. When I say “achievement unlocked”, I mean it!
Back in 2016, Telmex –Mexico’s foremost communications provider and, through the brands grouped under the América Móvil brand, one of Latin America’s most important ISPs– set up rules to block connecitons to (at least) seven of Tor’s directory authorities (DirAuths). We believe they might have blocked all of them, in an attempt to block connections from Tor from anywhere in their networks, but Tor is much more resourceful than that so, the measure was not too effective.
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How can I put this in words? I am very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very happy we managed to see this through!
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[HACKER] New Java-Based Ransomware Uses JIMAGE Targetting Windows and Linux Devices [Ed: Microsoft Zack (yes, he worked for Microsoft and maybe still does) is seeding anti-Linux coverage and the gist is, yes, you can (if you try to) install malicious software on your machine. Anything to distract from deliberate back doors in Microsoft Windows?]
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This new ransomware is targeting Windows and Linux PCs with a 'unique' attack [Ed: Microsoft-aligned ZDNet pushing this also]
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New Ransomware Targets Windows And Linux PCs With A 'Unique' Attack [Ed: Following ZDNet]
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Linux and Windows systems targeted by new Tycoon ransomware
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Threat Spotlight: Tycoon Ransomware Targets Education and Software Sectors
Tycoon is a multi-platform Java ransomware targeting Windows® and Linux® that has been observed in-the-wild since at least December 2019[1]. It is deployed in the form of a Trojanized Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and leverages an obscure Java image format to fly under the radar.
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