Security News and Microsoft FUD
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Kaidan's End-to-End Encryption Trust Management - Kaidan
We worked several months on Kaidan’s upcoming end-to-end encryption and trust management. Once Kaidan 0.9 is released, it will provide the latest OMEMO Encryption. But it will also make trust decisions in the background for you if it’s possible. Some trust decisions have to be made manually but there are many others Kaidan automates without decreasing your security. That is done by automatically sharing trust decisions via already secured channels.
The feature Kaidan uses is called Automatic Trust Management (ATM). Your device receives the encryption data to secure the conversation between you and your contact via the internet. That encryption data can be the data of an attacker. While you think that you communicate with your contact securely, the attacker can read, modify or drop everything you exchange.
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dpdk, net-snmp, php-horde-mime-viewer, php-horde-turba, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (rsync), Oracle (openssl and systemd), Red Hat (booth, kernel, kernel-rt, and openssl), Slackware (vim), SUSE (bluez, java-1_8_0-ibm, postgresql10, and zlib), and Ubuntu (kernel, linux, linux-raspi, linux-aws, and linux-oem-5.14).
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Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll | WIRED
As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers.
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High-School Graduation Prank Hack - Schneier on Security
This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools.
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Trend Micro Warns of 75% Surge in Ransomware Attacks on Linux as Systems Adoptions Soared [Ed: About 90% or 95% of ransomware attacks affect Windows (based on studies), not Linux, so the relic "antivirus" 'industry' is spreading FUD for Microsoft right now, deflecting and distracting from the main issue]
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Microsoft Azure outage continues for some services relying on Ubuntu 'Bionic' release [Ed: Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley has just written a BS piece trying to blame "Ubuntu" for Azure (Microsoft) issues. "Not a surprise," an associate notes, as "Azure is full of security holes, in addition to unreasonably high operating costs and poor performance. They'll continue their decades-long tactic of blaming "Linux people" for all their problems. For a while that was their go-to excuse for getting cracked or defaced."]
Update
Many more, among them the following today.
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Ransomware attacks on Linux up 75% [Ed: Trend Micro helps Microsoft by pretending ransomware is a "Linux" problem. It is not. Well, ransomware is predominantly a Windows problem, in practice]
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75% increase in ransomware attacks targeting Linux systems in 2022
Again today.
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Cyber Security Today, Sept. 5, 2022 – An alert to energy companies, a warning to Linux administrators and more [Ed: Trying to attribute a Windows epidemic to "Linux"... somehow]