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Security: Breaches, FUD and Latest Slackware Updates

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 4th of February 2019 10:59:29 AM Filed under
Security
  • B&Q 'exposed data about store thieves'
  • How to protect your data from cyberattacks

    Crime used to mean things like break-ins and thieves swiping packages from your doorstep. But now there’s an increasing number of cybersecurity threats that are also crimes of opportunity. With more and more people using unfamiliar networks and doing lots of online shopping, bad actors have plenty of targets to choose from. By following these simple steps for data protection, you can keep your digital information secure.

    [...]

    Using a modern operating system with the latest security updates and built-in anti-virus protection is the best way to ward off unwanted intrusions. Major tech companies continually upgrade software to account for the latest cybersecurity threats so you can be confident your data is protected. By keeping your software current, you can avoid many cyberattacks before they cause problems.

  • Most of the Fortune 100 still use flawed software that led to the Equifax breach [Ed: Badmouthing Apache Struts because one company did not patch it for many months? That's Sonatype's FUD factory (marketing) in action, capitalising on Equifax's breach.]

    Almost two years after Equifax’s massive hack, the majority of Fortune 100 companies still aren’t learning the lessons of using vulnerable software.

    In the last six months of 2018, two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies downloaded a vulnerable version of Apache Struts, the same vulnerable server software that was used by hackers to steal the personal data on close to 150 million consumers, according to data shared by Sonatype, an open-source automation firm.

    That’s despite almost two years’ worth of patched Struts versions being released since the attack.

  • Most Of The Fortune 100 Still Use The Flawed Software That Led To The Equifax Breach [Ed: Microsoft-connected Black Duck joins the FUD]
  • How Secure Is Open Source Software? [Ed: Looking to profit by exaggerating the threat -- a threat that proprietary software has too (even more so)]
  • Why you need to use DMARC and SPF on mail servers to prevent phishing and fraud
  • Security isn’t a feature

    As CES draws to a close, I’ve seen more than one security person complain that nobody at the show was talking about security. There were an incredible number of consumer devices unveiled, no doubt there is no security in any of them. I think we get caught up in the security world sometimes so we forget that the VAST majority of people don’t care if something has zero security. People want interesting features that amuse them or make their lives easier. Security is rarely either of these, generally it makes their lives worse so it’s an anti-feature to many.

    Now the first thing many security people think goes something like this “if there’s no security they’ll be sorry when their lightbulb steals their wallet and dumps the milk on the floor!!!” The reality is that argument will convince nobody, it’s not even very funny so they’re laughing at us, not with us. Our thoughts by very nature blame all the wrong people and we try to scare them into listening to us. It’s never worked. Ever. That one time you think it worked they were only pretended to care so you would go away.

    So it brings us to the idea that security isn’t a feature. Turning your lights on is a feature. Cooking you dinner is a feature. Driving your car is a feature. Not bursting into flames is not a feature. Well it sort of is, but nobody talks about it. Security is a lot like the bursting into flames thing. Security really is about something not happening, things not happening is the fundamental problem we have when we try to talk about all this. You can’t build a plausible story around an event that may or may not happen. Trying to build a narrative around something that may or may not happen is incredibly confusing. This isn’t how feature work, features do positive things, they don’t not do negative things (I don’t even know if that’s right). Security isn’t a feature.

  • Updated multilib, chromium. Arriving soon: new libreoffice

    The Chromium 72 code was released a few days ago by Google. I built new Slackware packages for Chromium 72.0.3626.81 during the weekend and they are ready for download now on slackware.com or slackware.nl, or any other mirror of course.
    There’s a sizable number of CVE’s mentioned in the ChangeLog that were fixed in this release. Therefore it’s a good idea to upgrade today.
    I verified that the Widevine CDM is still working, so your Netflix movie streaming is not affected by the upgrade.

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