Security Leftovers
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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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