Security Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 4th of December 2020 08:06:24 PM
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Top global HR firm Randstad stung by Windows ransomware
Global human resources giant Randstad has taken a hit from cyber criminals using the Windows Egregor ransomware, with the company saying it is trying what data the attackers have stolen and placed on their site on the dark web.
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Episode 229 – Door 04: EFF’s Cover Your Tracks – Open Source Security
Josh and Kurt talk about how the EFF is helping us prevent Internet tracking
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The New Reality of State Sponsored Attacks on US Businesses
They’re doing it because that company is considered part of home base, and their mission is to protect home base.
I think this is a really interesting distinction, and I wonder how long it’ll take the US to “catch up” to how others are thinking about this.
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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (c-ares, pdfresurrect, webkit2gtk3, and xen), openSUSE (python3), SUSE (gdm, python-pip, rpmlint, and xen), and Ubuntu (snapcraft).
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GitHub's report on open-source security[Ed: The foes from Microsoft now ‘report’ on the security of their rivals]
GitHub has released its "2020 State of the Octoverse" report; one piece of that is a report on security [PDF].
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Common Container Manager Is Vulnerable to Dangerous Exploit
Container manager vulnerability is one of several weaknesses and vulnerabilities recently disclosed for Docker.
A vulnerability in the way a common container management component spawns a service called a "shim" could allow unauthorized third parties to initiate containers with arbitrary contents and arbitrary permission levels.
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Ubuntu Emailing With Thunderbird And Android's K-9
Continuing email beginner's guide, now we Ubuntu users who have Android can read our emails anywhere anytime in both devices. It's a wonderful experience. On computer we use Thunderbird, while on phone we use K-9, both are free software. This tutorial uses Disroot email account as example, thanks to its gratis IMAP feature. Now, let's go!
Fortunately, Ubuntu users do not need to install anything anymore. But for Android users, you will install K-9 Email Client, it is available at free software center F-Droid.
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Some time ago, I wanted to give a blackboard-style look to a typeset equation. I started playing around with the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and was satisfied with the result. The problem was that I had to perform several actions on the image, I wanted to use this style again, and I did not want to repeat the steps for all the images. Besides, I was sure that I would forget them in no time.
GIMP is a great open source image editor. Although I have been using it for years, I had never investigated its batch-processing abilities nor its Script-Fu menu. This was the perfect chance to explore them.
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Use your Raspberry Pi as a productivity powerhouse
In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 16 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.
The Raspberry Pi is a pretty amazing little computer—small, surprisingly powerful, and very easy to set up and use. I have used them for home automation projects, dashboards, and a dedicated media player. But can it be a productivity powerhouse as well?
The answer is, quite simply, yes.
| Mozilla Firefox 85.0 Now Available As First 2021 Release
Mozilla Firefox 85.0 is available today as the open-source web browser's first major release of the year.
For those more interested in Firefox now following the recent news of Google cutting off Chromium API access to various Google services in trying to steer more users to Chrome proper, Firefox 85.0 has arrived just in time. Firefox 85.0 is available this morning via the Mozilla FTP ahead of the official announcement.
Firefox 85.0 comes with privacy enhancements like network partitioning, the password manager can now more easily remove all saved logins, and the Adobe Flash support is removed in full.
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