Back Doors and Windows TCO
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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The Register UK ☛ US lawmakers demand probe into China's Salt Typhoon hacks
The lawmakers' demands are in response to earlier reports that Salt Typhoon had breached US internet service providers' networks, and specifically targeted the networks that Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen use for court-ordered surveillance.
These federally mandated backdoors date back to a 1994 law, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), that required phone companies to install wiretapping technology in their networks. In 2006, the FCC expanded this backdoor mandate to cover broadband internet companies.
Of course, the problem with government-ordered backdoors is that they can be found and abused by others, as cybersecurity experts have long argued and as Wyden pointed out in his letter.
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Windows TCO
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The Register UK ☛ INC ransomware rebranded to Lynx, say security researchers
Researchers at Palo Alto's Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over a three-month period.
INC was never a ransomware market leader, but since spinning up in October 2023 it made something of a name for itself with headline-grabbing attacks on the UK's Leicester City Council and NHS Scotland, to name a few.
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The Record ☛ Casio says ransomware attack exposed info of employees, customers and business partners
In an updated statement, the company said the October 5 attack involved servers that “had been damaged by a third-party ransomware attack.”
Several systems were rendered unusable due to the ransomware attack, and an investigation revealed that the hackers had gained access to data held on the impacted servers. The company shut down the servers and hired outside security firms to help with the response.
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Digital Music News ☛ Internet Archive Experiences Catastrophic Hack, Remains Down
The Internet Archive experienced a catastrophic hack this week, exposing 31 million accounts and taking the archive completely offline. The Wayback Machine is down, as are the preserved recordings from old 78 rpm records that landed the foundation in a legal dispute with seven record companies.
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The Register UK ☛ Internet Archive user info stolen in attack, hit by DDoS
It is unclear if the DDoS and security breach are linked.
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The Verge ☛ The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’
[...] and DDoS attack earlier this week [...]
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The Register UK ☛ Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
Windows 11 24H2 users are finding there is undeletable data that remains on their devices after installing the recently released feature update.
The known issues list has not grown in the days since the rollout on October 15, however, for many users – this writer included – attempts to clean up the detritus after the update has left 8.63 GB of disk space occupied by "Windows Update Cleanup."
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