today's leftovers
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Windows TCO: Lessons from a ransomware attack: How one healthcare CIO helped her company recover
In the early-morning hours of Feb. 25, 2021, Terri Ripley got the call every chief information officer dreads: Her company, OrthoVirginia Inc., had been hit by a massive attack of the Ryuk ransomware that had shut down its entire computing fabric.
Although it would be 18 months before systems were fully restored, OrthoVirginia never shut down operations or abandoned patients. What it learned during the crisis is a lesson for any organization that might become an attack target [sic]. Today, that’s everyone.
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Ransomware fiends pounce on Cisco VPN brute-force zero-day flaw
The medium-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20269, exists in the remote access VPN feature of Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software stacks.
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Fedora Has a Kernel ‘Test Week’ and a Toolbx ‘Test Day’ Coming Up
Fedora’s Sumantro Mukherjee posted a reminder in Fedora Magazine on Friday about a “test week” that starts on Sunday and a “test day” scheduled for later in the week, that are being conducted by the Red Hat maintained Linux distribution.
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p2k23 Hackathon Report: Marc Espie (espie@) on a flurry of packages activity
You know a good hackathon when you still have things to do at the end !
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Here's how to get PAYDAY 3 Beta to work on Steam Deck & Linux
PAYDAY 3 has a technical Beta currently live, as they're testing out their servers ready for the full release on September 21st. Getting it running on Steam Deck and desktop Linux needs a little fix to work so here's how.