Security Leftovers
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The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now
Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they’re eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. Given the high volume of reader inquiries about this, it seemed worth pointing out that while this particular offer is legit (if paltry), scammers are likely to soon capitalize on public attention to the settlement money.
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FBI Private Sector Cyberthreat Reporting Database Hacked By Apparently Unreported Cyberthreat
Is this irony? It kind of seems like it is. Maybe it isn’t. It could just be a coincidence. An extremely unfortunate, ironic coincidence.
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Freexian Collaborators: Recent improvements to Tryton's Debian Packaging (by Mathias Behrle and Raphaël Hertzog)
Freexian has been using Tryton for a few years to handle its invoicing and accounting. We have thus also been using the Debian packages maintained by Mathias Behrle and we have been funding some of his work because maintaining an ERP with more than 50 source packages was too much for him to handle alone on his free time.
When Mathias discovered our Project Funding initiative, it was quite natural for him to consider applying to be able to bring some much needed improvements to Tryton’s Debian packaging. He’s running his own consulting company (MBSolutions) so it’s easy for him to invoice Freexian to get the money for the funded projects.
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 229 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 229. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ] * Skip test_html.py::test_diff if html2text is not installed. (Closes: #1026034)
[ Holger Levsen ] * Bump standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed.