Security, Microsoft, and Facebook Layoffs
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Istio / ISTIO-SECURITY-2022-008
User can impersonate any workload identity within the service mesh if they have localhost access to the Istiod control plane.
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Medibank attackers seek US$9.7m ransom; 'bid to manipulate public opinion' [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]
The ransomware group behind the Medibank Group attack claims it initially demanded US$10 million (A$15.55 million) as a ransom, but is willing to accept US$9.7 million instead – US$1 for each customer the company claims is at risk. Ransomware largely attacks Microsoft's Windows operating system.
"Society ask us about ransom, it's a 10 millions usd. We can make discount 9.7m 1$=1 customer," the attacker(s) said in a post on the dark web.
"Medibanks CEO stated, that ransom amount is 'irrelevant'. We want to inform the customers, that He refuses to pay for yours data more, like 1 USD per person. So, probably customers data and extra efforts don't cost that."
The group's site, which hosts a copy of the site formerly used by the REvil gang, has also released a file named abortions.csv. Security researcher Brett Callow described this action as "pure evil".
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EU complaint over Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive cloud practices
Microsoft has been accused of anti-competitive behaviour in its cloud computing licensing practices, with an European trade group making a complaint about this alleged behaviour to the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.
The group, Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe, said in a statement that it was backing two of its members, OVHcloud and Aruba, in separate complaints and was filing its own complaint to take in what it described as "serious unresolved issues" that "represents the wider European cloud infrastructure sector".
The complaint was filed with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG Comp).
The organisation said all the documentation published by Microsoft in a bid to prevent market probes had failed to provide the detail clarity or assurance needed to assure the market that it intended to "bring a swift end to its anti-competitive licensing practices".
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iTWire - Facebook parent Meta announces it will sack 11,000 employees
Meta, the parent organisation of social media behemoth Facebook, has announced it will sack more than 11,000 employees, about 13% of the total workforce.
In a blog post on Thursday AEDT, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company was also adopting a number of measures "to become a leaner and more efficient company by cutting discretionary spending and extending our hiring freeze through Q1".
The company had 87,314 employees at the end of September and this is the first time it has resorted to mass layoffs in its 18 years of operation.
Zuckerberg said the emergence of COVID-19 had seen a move towards more online work and a big revenue spike for Meta due to the spike in e-commerce.