Security: Linux FUD, LastPass Kaput, Istio 1.14 End of Life, and High Windows TCO
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Critical “10-out-of-10” Linux kernel SMB hole – should you worry? [Ed: This is false. It is no longer 10 out of 10 and hasn't been for days.]
Just before the Christmas weekend – in fact, at about the same time that beleaguered password management service LastPass was admitting that, yes, your password vaults were stolen by criminals after all – we noticed a serious-sounding Linux kernel vulnerability that hit the news.
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Link-o-Rama: Desert of Social Media, a raccoon and snow, dissecting the LastPass communications : Dissociated Press
LastPast’s comms around its most recent breach are less than reassuring. But if you really want to dig in, Almost Secure really tears into their statement. (Might be time to stop using LastPass.)
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Istio / Support for Istio 1.14 has ended
As previously announced, support for Istio 1.14 has now officially ended.
At this point we will no longer back-port fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.14, so we heartily encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.16.1) if you haven’t already.
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Mexico is one of the top victims of cyberattacks in Latin America [iophk: Windows TCO]
The global cybersecurity company Fortinet said that from January to June, Mexico suffered more cyberattacks than some of the biggest targets in Latin America, including Brazil (at 31.5 billion) and Colombia (6.3 billion). Fortinet noted that many attacks used sophisticated and targeted strategies such as ransomware.