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Proprietary Software and Security Issues

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 13th of March 2021 10:30:20 AM Filed under
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    Under the €7 million contract, all existing and new ticketing channels will be assembled into a single omnichannel platform. Additionally, for the first time, Lithuanian train passengers will have the opportunity to buy tickets using a mobile application.

    Turnit beat five competitors, including the technical giant Siemens, in the public procurement process which lasted for almost 18 months. The new solution will be launched by the end of 2021.

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    The campaign has exploited recently discovered flaws in Microsoft Exchange software, stealing email and infecting computer servers with tools that let attackers take control remotely, Brian Krebs said in a post at his cyber security news website.

  • Windows ransomware adds to Microsoft Exchange Server woes

    New Windows ransomware, which has been given the name DearCry, has started affecting systems to which access has been gained by exploiting the Microsoft Exchange Server flaws that were announced by Microsoft on 2 March.

  • Ransomware Attack Strikes Spain’s Employment Agency

    The Spanish State Employment Service (SEPE) in Spain has been hit by a cyberattack, suspending its communications systems across hundreds of offices and delaying thousands of appointments.

    SEPE is an “autonomous body” in Spain that manages and controls unemployment benefits. The cyberattack hit during an already strenuous time for the agency, which is dealing with an overflow of requests for unemployment benefits as the coronavirus pandemic has forced companies globally to make cuts to their workforces.

    According to Spanish trade union Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF), the attack has has affected the organization’s 710 offices. The labor union claimed that the cyberattack stemmed from ransomware – however, further details about the attack, including its origin and the ransom demand, are unknown.

  • Windows 10 KB5000802 (March) update is crashing PCs with BSOD

    To make matters worse, KB5000802 is an automatic security update, which means it has been downloaded and installed automatically for some customers. Users didn’t have a say in whether or not Microsoft should install the update and break their computers with BSOD.

  • GitHub users forcibly logged out of accounts to patch ‘potentially serious’ security bug

    The maintainers of GitHub explained that they invalidated all authenticated sessions “out of an abundance of caution to protect users from an extremely rare, but potentially serious, security vulnerability”, which it said affected a “small number” of users.

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 169 released

    The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 169.

  • Git vulnerability could enable remote code execution attacks during clone process

    The bug – tracked as CVE-2021-21300 – is present in several versions of the open source code management system, and could allow a hostile remote repository to execute code locally during a clone operation.

    Crucially, the vulnerability only affects users with case-insensitive filesystems that enable support for symbolic links. Files using a clean/smudge filter such as Git LFS must also be enabled for the attack to work.

    [...]

    A security advisory reads: “In affected versions of Git, a specially crafted repository that contains symbolic links as well as files using a clean/smudge filter such as Git LFS, may cause just-checked out script to be executed while cloning onto a case-insensitive file system such as NTFS, HFS+ or APFS (i.e., the default file systems on Windows and macOS).

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Some Printers Caused a BSOD After Windows 10 Update

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 13th of March 2021 12:04:23 PM.
  • Some Printers Caused a BSOD After Windows 10 Update

    If you installed the latest Windows 10 update, you might be very frustrated right now. Are you staring at a BSOD (blue screen of death) right now? There are reports that some printers caused a BSOD after the Windows 10 update was installed.

    [...]

    Windows Latest was the first to report the issue. Kyocera, Ricoh, and Zebra printers are causing these crashes. When a file is sent to one of the printers, the PC will crash, and the user will get a BSOD. The error code of “APC_INDEX_MISMATCH for win32kfull.sys” will show up.

    Usually, this particular code is indicative of hardware or drivers not being compatible. But you know your printer is compatible, and if there hasn’t been a new driver, it may leave you perplexed.

An older one but still relevant

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 13th of March 2021 09:48:11 PM.

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