Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
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LWN ☛ Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, OpenIPMI, podman, and thunderbird), Debian (libapache-mod-jk, php7.4, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (edk2, koji, libgsf, rust-hyper-rustls, rust-reqwest, rust-rustls-native-certs, rust-rustls-native-certs0.7, rust-tonic, rust-tonic-build, rust-tonic-types, rust-tower, rust-tower-http, rust-tower-http0.5, and rust-tower0.4), Mageia (packages and thunderbird), Oracle (bind, container-tools:ol8, kernel, kernel-container, OpenIPMI, podman, and thunderbird), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, podman, and skopeo), SUSE (argocd-cli, bsdtar, keepalived, kernel, kyverno, libmozjs-115-0, libmozjs-128-0, libmozjs-78-0, OpenIPMI, opensc, php8, thunderbird, and xen), and Ubuntu (configobj, haproxy, imagemagick, nginx, and postgresql-10, postgresql-9.3).
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Windows TCO
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The Record ☛ Calgary Public Library forced to limit services after cyberattack
The organization, which runs 22 branches for the city’s 1.3 million residents, first notified the public of issues on Friday — warning that a “cybersecurity breach” compromised some of its systems.
The library closed early on Friday and all servers or library computers were turned off. On Monday, the library said all locations will be open for regular hours by Wednesday but service will be modified. Customers “will have access to Library spaces and services that do not require technology.”
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PC World ☛ The Wayback Machine is back up after hackers [sic] took it down last week
Last week, the Internet Archive and its beloved Wayback Machine was taken down by a hacktivist group who unleashed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the site. Along with that, data for over 31 million user accounts were lost in the cyberattack.
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