Windows TCO Tales
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The Register UK ☛ Damn Small Linux returns after damn large release gap
Seventeen years after its last major version, an old favorite, Damn Small Linux, is back with a new 2024 release.
An alpha-test version of a new release of Damn Small Linux appeared at the start of the month. The last major release, DSL 4, appeared in 2007, and the last point release, a development preview of DSL 4.11, was in 2012.
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Security Week ☛ Windows Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks on Financial Market Traders
Trend Micro has published a blog post describing attacks exploiting CVE-2024-21412. It’s worth noting that, in addition to Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, Microsoft credited Aura Information Security and Google’s Threat Analysis Group for reporting this vulnerability.
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India Times ☛ Infosys: Bank of America names Infosys US unit for over 57,000 users data leak
Top American lender Bank of America has named Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), the US subsidiary of Indian software services giant Infosys, as the source of a data leak owing to a ransomware attack suffered by over 57,000 of its users in November, according to documents reviewed by ET.
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The Register UK ☛ Southern Water cyberattack will affect swathe of customers
However, it was fairly evident from the outset that both staff and customers were affected by the data breach. In typical Black Basta fashion, it dumped a plethora of the data it stole online, including identity documents and HR files, among others.
The information revealed in this initial data dump was enough to verify through simple means that the documents were genuine and implicated both customers and employees.