Android Leftovers

• Google Android Updated for Corporate Smartphone Users | Fortune

• How Malware Keeps Sneaking Past Google Play's Defenses

• Android Users Now Have A Big Advantage On Instagram

• Don't Rely On an Unlock Pattern To Secure Your Android Phone

• Nokia Prepares Android Oreo For Flagship Smartphone

• What's New In Android 8.0 Oreo Security

• Android's 'check for update' button will now finally do something

• Android Circuit: New Galaxy S9 Leak, Nokia 9's Powerful Surprise, Latest Pixel 2 Launch Details

Red Hat and Fedora: Patent Promise and Fedora Community

• Red Hat Enlarges Its Open Source Patent Promise Umbrella

  Red Hat on Thursday announced major enhancements to the Patent Promise it first published 15 years ago, with the intention of providing new protections to innovation in the open source community. In its 2002 Patent Promise, Red Hat vowed not to pursue patent infringement actions against parties that used its covered Free and Open Source Software, or FOSS, subject to certain limitations. The current Patent Promise reaffirms the 2002 pledge and extends the zone of non-enforcement.

• Red Hat breaks new ground with open source Patent Promise

  Red Hat has decided to revise its 2002 Patent Promise that originally signalled the company’s intention not to enforce its patents against free and open source software. The company, which is famed for its open source approach, had laid out in its original promise that it was designed to discourage patent aggression against free and open source software. The updated version not only reaffirms this but “extends the zone of non-enforcement.”

• Two Docs Workshops at Flock 2017

• Documentation and Modularity at Flock 2017

• Join the Magazine team

  The recent Flock conference of Fedora contributors included a Fedora Magazine workshop. Current editorial board members Ryan Lerch, Justin W. Flory, and Paul W. Frields covered how to join and get started as an author. Here are some highlights of the workshop and discussion that took place.

Security: FOSS Updates, SEC, CCleaner

• Security updates for Friday

• SEC Chairman reveals financial reporting system was hacked

• CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared

• CCleaner Hack May Have Been A State-Sponsored Attack On 18 Major Tech Companies

  At the beginning of this week, reports emerged that Avast, owner of the popular CCleaner software, had been hacked. Initial investigations by security researchers at Cisco Talos discovered that the intruder not only compromised Avast's servers, but managed to embed both a backdoor and "a multi-stage malware payload" that rode on top of the installation of CCleaner. That infected software -- traditionally designed to help scrub PCs of cookies and other tracking software and malware -- was subsequently distributed by Avast to 700,000 customers (initially, that number was thought to be 2.27 million). And while that's all notably terrible, it appears initial reports dramatically under-stated both the scope and the damage done by the hack. Initially, news reports and statements by Avast insisted that the hackers weren't able to "do any harm" because the second, multi-stage malware payload was never effectively delivered. But subsequent reports by both Avast and Cisco Talos researchers indicate this payload was effectively delivered -- with the express goal of gaining access to the servers and networks of at least 18 technology giants, including Intel, Google, Microsoft, Akamai, Samsung, Sony, VMware, HTC, Linksys, D-Link and Cisco itself.

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