Proprietary Software and Microsoft Blunders
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Is Apple Sending You $395 for a Faulty MacBook Keyboard? Check Your Email
Owners of faulty butterfly keyboards used in MacBook machines between 2015 and 2019 are receiving emails from Apple on how to receive their payments, which could range from $300 to $395, MacRumors reports(Opens in a new window).
The email comes after Apple agreed to pay $50 million in July to settle a class-action lawsuit over the faulty keyboards. They led to characters repeating unexpectedly; letters or characters not appearing; and/or the keys feeling "sticky" or not responding in a consistent manner.
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[Repeat] Trojanized Windows 10 Operating System Installers Targeted Ukrainian Government [iophk: Windows TCO]
The trojanized files use the Ukrainian language pack and are designed to target Ukrainian users. Following compromise targets selected for follow on activity included multiple Ukrainian government organizations.
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The cost of doing nothing: Australian organisations are gambling on cybersecurity [iophk: Windows TCO]
The Australian Cyber Security Centre’s annual Cyber Threat Report this year found a cyber crime is reported every seven minutes while the overall number of cyber crime reports increased by 13% from 2021. Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs and Cybersecurity recently announced a new cybersecurity strategy will be developed as part of government’s ambition to make Australia the most cyber-secure nation in the world. How can organisations help ensure we get there?
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U.S. Navy awards Amazon Web Services contract worth over $700 mln
The deal will provide the Navy with access to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) commercial cloud environment, Professional Services and its training and certification courses.
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Chinese electric automaker Nio hit by data breach [iophk: Windows TCO]
China-based Nio Inc said on Tuesday that hackers had breached its computer systems and accessed data on users and vehicle sales, in the latest [break-in] incident to hit the global auto industry.
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Systemd unit templates don't provide a native way to have multiple parameters
We have a collection of Apache servers, and as part of our Prometheus metrics system we indirectly scrape metrics from them, using a third party Apache exporter that queries Apache's mod_status information and converts it to Prometheus metrics. Because the exporter's author chose to write it that way, you need to run one instance of the exporter per Apache server you want to extract metrics from. Ordinary people would probably run these exporter instances on the Apache hosts themselves. We opted to instead run all of the exporters on our metrics server, which means that we need one systemd unit per exporter instance. As we gather metrics from more and more Apache servers, this had led to more and more systemd units, each of them basically identical.