Security Leftovers and Proprietary Trickery
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New Linux IceFire Ransomware Variant Discovered: What You Need to Know to Secure Your Systems [Ed: This is a proprietary IBM issue, not "Linux" issue; the site called LinuxSecurity continues spreading FUD.]
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In Yet Another Crypto Attack, Hackers Pillage $197 Million From Euler Finance
Unidentified cybercriminals managed to boost nearly $200 million from the decentralized finance lender Euler Finance on Monday. The attack, which stole millions in crypto assets like DAI and USD Coin, is being hailed as the biggest crypto hack of the year so far.
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (redis), Fedora (cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, and qt6-qtwebengine), Red Hat (kpatch-patch), SUSE (chromium, java-1_8_0-openj9, and nodejs18), and Ubuntu (chromium-browser, libxstream-java, php-twig, twig, protobuf, and python-werkzeug).
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Microsoft is showing new full-page ads asking you to set Edge as the default browser
We already know that Microsoft has become more aggressive with marketing its Edge browser, going as far as to show banner ads on the Chrome download website, reminding you that Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome but has the "added trust of Microsoft". Now, it seems like the company is going one step further in its push to get Edge more customers.
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Microsoft finally fixes Windows 11 slow file copy issues over SMB [Ed: Better headline is, Vista 11 is defective and Microsoft isn't fixing that]
Microsoft has finally addressed a known issue causing significant performance hits when copying large files over SMB after installing the Windows 11 2022 update.
The bug was fixed with the KB5022913 February 2023 non-security preview update released on February 2022, which also introduced newly announced Moment 2 features.
"This update addresses an issue that affects copying from a network to a local drive. Copying is slower than expected for some users," Microsoft said.