today's leftovers
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Optus denies breach data led to user losing money from bank
Telecommunications provider Singtel Optus has denied that data which was leaked during a massive breach of its network is in any responsible for a cafe owner losing about $10,000 from his ANZ bank account.
The company told iTWire, in response to a query, that "No customer payment details, including any direct debit or credit card information, nor passwords, including My Optus app logins, have been compromised in the cyber attack on Optus customers."
The Age had claimed in an article published on 6 November that a cafe owner in Elsternwick, a Melbourne suburb, had close to $10,000 withdrawn from his ANZ account. Jim Marinis was one of those affected by the Optus leak. Additional withdrawals had brought his losses up to $40,000, the newspaper alleged.
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Medibank now says data of 9.7m current, former customers accessed
Medical insurer Medibank Group has increased its estimate of the number of customers who could be affected by the theft of data from its networks, saying the attacker(s) accessed data of some 9.7 million current and former subscribers.
In a statement issued to the ASX on Monday, the company said the attacker(s) had "accessed the name, date of birth, address, phone number and email address for around 9.7 million current and former customers and some of their authorised representatives. This figure represents around 5.1 million Medibank customers, around 2.8 million ahm customers and around 1.8 million international customers".
When it first announced its systems had been breached, Medibank said there was no indication of any sensitive data having leaked. Later, it said the data stolen was limited to ahm and international students. Even later, it said data of all its 3.9 million customers could have been taken.
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There's a good chance Android 14 will support a new file format
The format wars are nearly over — no, it's probably not the one you're thinking about. For as long as they could, Android phone owners have been plugging in external drives to move files about for one reason or another. But if your disk was formatted in anything other than FAT32, they were most likely out of luck. Nowadays, Google is helping Android make a determined comeback to tablets and other large form factors that might get hooked up to those external drives with those difficult formats. Part of that comeback means getting over the NTFS hump.
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Giveaway Week – NanoPi R5S router - CNX Software
We’ll start the giveaway with NanoPi R5S router based on Rockchip RK3568 SoC with 2 GB DDR4 RAM, 8GB eMMC flash plus an M.2 socket for NVMe SSD, two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, as well as HDMI 2.0 video output and two USB 3.0 ports.
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Norbert Preining: KDE/Plasma for Debian – Update 2022/11
Short summary of recent changes and updates:
Frameworks updated to 5.99.0 Plasma 5.24 LTS (repo plasma524) has been updated to the latest patch level 5.24.7 Plasma 5.25 updated to the latest patch level 5.25.5 KDE Gears 22.08 updated to latest patch level 22.08.3 Krita updated to 5.1.3 (hopefully) everything recompiled against new Qt from Debian
If you see some strange behavior, please report.