today's leftovers
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Australia to host international ransomware gabfest early next year
Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said the meeting was a follow-up to the initial gathering in Washington earlier this week.
“The cyber incident involving Medibank Private is a blunt reminder that we need a globally focused capability to combat cyber threats, including ransomware,” she said.
“I want Australia to be a global leader in cyber security, and the Australian Government will continue to join with international partners, industry and the community to develop effective responses to the complex issue of cyber crime.”
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Experts Warn of SandStrike Android Spyware Infecting Devices via Malicious VPN App [Ed: "Experts" say don't install malicious software or it might do... gasp... malicious things!]
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is tracking the campaign under the moniker SandStrike.
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OpenSSL Flaw No ‘Heartbleed,’ But Other New Vulns Detected
The cybersecurity world has been sitting on pins and needles for the past 48 hours, ever since news of a potentially devastating new flaw in OpenSSL started to leak out early Monday morning. That flaw turned out to be not as bad as initially feared, but that shouldn’t stop IBM i shops from patching other recent flaws, including some pretty serious ones in WebSphere Liberty, Java, the CCA, and Zlib.
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Dropbox Breach: Hackers Unauthorizedly Accessed 130 GitHub Source Code Repositories
File hosting service Dropbox on Tuesday disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that allowed unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub.
"These repositories included our own copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and configuration files used by the security team," the company revealed in an advisory.
The breach resulted in the access of some API keys used by Dropbox developers as well as "a few thousand names and email addresses belonging to Dropbox employees, current and past customers, sales leads, and vendors."
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Firefox patches Windows 11 Ctrl+C hang, introduces new bug
Windows 11 and Firefox users who have experienced months of browser freezes when copying text, rejoice: there's finally a patch that eliminates the problem, which has been persistent since May.
Mozilla's patch notes for Firefox version 106.0.3, released yesterday, only includes a couple of items, among them a fix for "an incompatibility" with a Windows 11 22H2 feature called "Suggested Actions" that pop a window up whenever anything is copied to the clipboard.