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Security: Espionage, Mozilla, Apache, and Windows Ransomware

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of April 2019 07:32:18 AM Filed under
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    The Federal Government has allocated an unspecified amount in Tuesday's Federal Budget to improve cyber security arrangements for the forthcoming election.

  • Former Mozilla CTO files complaint against border patrol over warrantless phone search

    According to the ACLU’s complaint, Customs and Border Protection agents in San Francisco International Airport stopped and interrogated Gal — a Hungarian-born US citizen — as he returned from a business trip in Sweden. The agents allegedly demanded that he hand over the passcodes to his Apple-issued phone and computer. When Gal asked to speak to an attorney, they allegedly threatened him with criminal prosecution for resisting a federal officer, “interrogated him about every aspect of his travel and his possessions,” and revoked his expedited Global Entry status for “refusal to comply with a search.”

    [...]

    Gal and the ACLU speculate that the search was motivated by suspicion over Gal’s previous privacy advocacy and his political opinions, stating that the agents asked detailed questions about his work with the privacy-conscious Mozilla — which Gal left back in 2015 to help found Silk Labs, an AI startup that was later acquired by Apple. The Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint or its allegations.

  • DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Update – Recent Testing Results and Next Steps

    Back in November 2018, we rolled out a test of DoH in the United States to look at possible impacts to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Our goal was to closely examine performance again, specifically the case when users get less localized DNS responses that could slow the browsing experience, even if the DNS resolver itself is accurate and fast. We worked with Akamai to help us understand more about the possible impact.

    The results were strong! Like our previous studies, DoH had minimal impact or clearly improved the total time it takes to get a response from the resolver and fetch a web page.

  • Stay and Compile a While | LINUX Unplugged 295

    Is there really any advantage to building your software vs installing the package? We discuss when and why you might want to consider building it yourself.

    Plus some useful things Mozilla is working on and Cassidy joins us to tell us about elementary OS' big choice.

  • Apache web server bug grants root access on shared hosting environments
  • Arizona Beverages knocked offline by ransomware attack

    The ransomware also infected the company’s Windows-powered Exchange server, knocking out email across the entire company. Although its Unix systems were unaffected, the ransomware outbreak left the company without any computers able to process customer orders for almost a week. Staff began processing orders manually several days into the outage.

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