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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of November 2019 12:56:36 PM Filed under
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  • Totally In-Touch NH Lawmaker Blocks Device Repair Bill, Tells Constituents To Just Buy New $1k Phones

    For years we've discussed the need for better and stronger "right to repair" laws in the United States. Were one to look for a pure example of legislative capture by corporate interests, it's hard to think of a better example than the way hardware makers of various stripes have managed to lock their own hardware behind various flavors of DRM and/or warranty restrictions to make it illegal for a person to get the thing they bought repaired. Arguing that such repairs fall within the scope of anti-circumvention laws, these hardware makers, including those of smartphones like Apple, have attempted to construct a world in which people don't just own what they bought, but are rather forced to continue to buy things they don't own when the hardware is damaged or fails them.

  • U2F support in OpenSSH HEAD

    There's some more detail on the new key format and other technical aspects of the feature in the PROTOCOL.u2f file in the OpenSSH source distribution.

    We chose to add U2F devices to the SSH protocol as keys rather than as another more web-like authentication methods because SSH users are familiar with keys and there are many tools that support them. It was not possible to enable U2F keys using the existing SSH ECDSA key format because, despite U2F devices using ECDSA for signatures, the signature format differs from the plain signatures used in SSH by including some additional fields.

    I'm pretty excited about this feature so please give it a try and let me know your feedback. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

  • Mike Gabriel: My Work on Debian LTS/ELTS (October 2019)

    In October 2019, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 11.75 hours (of 11.75 hours planned) and on the Debian ELTS project for 0 hours (of 5 hours planned) as a paid contributor. I have given back those 5 ELTS hours to the pool.

  • Security updates for Friday

    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, sudo, and thunderbird), Debian (libarchive and qtbase-opensource-src), Oracle (php), Red Hat (php, rh-php71-php, and rh-php72-php), Scientific Linux (firefox and php), and SUSE (kernel and samba). 

  • Researchers Find SMS Monitoring Malware in Linux Telecom Servers [Ed: If "[i]t’s unclear how long the malware was operating before it was found," then this possibly and even likely has nothing to do with "Linux"; like blaming "Windows" for Photoshop flaws.]

    A state-sponsored tool most likely used by Chinese advanced persistent threat group APT41 was discovered inside the Linux servers of an undisclosed telecom company, surveilling incoming and outgoing SMS messages.

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    The researchers said the tool deployed by APT41 supported Chinese espionage efforts, but the group has financial motives as well. It’s unclear how long the malware was operating before it was found, but a 2019 investigation revealed it in a cluster of Linux servers.

  • Researchers Find SMS Monitoring Malware in Linux Telecom Servers

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  • An Illinois Superhero You’ve Never Heard Of

           

             

    There’s a superhero among us here in Illinois. His name is Michael Gillespie. He’s 27 years old. He and his wife have eight cats and he keeps framed photos of them on his desk in the back of Nerds on Call, the computer repair store where he works in Normal. But that’s not the superhero part.

             

    Gillespie has become “one of the world’s leading conquerors of an especially common and virulent cybercrime: ransomware,” wrote my ProPublica colleague Renee Dudley in a fascinating article published this week. Dudley profiles Gillespie — who has gotten little public praise, compensation or reward for his off-hours work — as part of her ongoing series about ransomware, a crime in which an individual or group hacks into a computer system, paralyzes it and demands ransom in return for enabling victims to retrieve their files. Millions of ransomware attacks occur each year, Dudley reports, and the FBI and local law enforcement have made little progress curbing them.

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