FUD and Proprietary Software
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Over a thousand Docker container images found hiding malicious content [Ed: Terrible 'journalism' trying to tie "Linux" and "containers" to malware because some of them might contain some (not the fault of the software at all)]
Over a thousand container images hosted on the popular database repository Docker Hub are malicious, putting users at risk of cyberattack, experts have warned.
According to a report from Sysdig, the images contained nefarious assets such as cryptominers, backdoors, and DNS hijackers.
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mjg59 | Poking a mobile hotspot
First, it's clearly running Linux (nmap indicates that, as do the headers from the built-in webserver). The login page for the web interface has some text reading "Open Source Notice" that highlights when you move the mouse over it, but that's it - there's code to make the text light up, but it's not actually a link. There's no exposed license notices at all, although there is a copy on the filesystem that doesn't seem to be reachable from anywhere. The notice tells you to email them to receive source code, but doesn't actually provide an email address.
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If a Matter company stops paying license fees, what happens?
On a recent Internet of Things Podcast episode, we took a Matter question during our Voicemail hotline segment. This particular question was submitted via email by Jon, and since it was such a good question, we decided to tackle it.
Jon asked: [...]
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Security teams face ‘increasing difficulty’ ‘detecting, stopping’ cyber threats: Vectra [iophk: Windows TCO]