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Security and FUD: Today's Epic Bug, SSL Certificates, Marketing and Scare Tactics

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 30th of September 2021 03:57:53 PM Filed under
Security
  • If you have any of these Android, iOS and Windows phones, you will lose your Internet connection from today - Market Research Telecast [Ed: An automated translation]

    How would you stay if we told you that your Android, iPhone or Windows mobile – if you still use one of the latter – is going to be unable to access the Internet from today? Well, that will happen to literally thousands of smartphones and devices without updating due to a change in the way the Network of Networks handles security.

  • Assess and Secure Your Linux Footprint – Now! - Infosecurity Magazine [Ed: Lack of understanding of fundamental differences between GNU, Linux, and other things. Very shallow.]
  • What is an SSL certificate? / SSL certificate: A Complete Insight

    With such increased online activities, the threat to crucial data you share has seen severe consequences, ranging from fraudulent financial transactions, online identity theft, etc. Moreover, with the heightened use of technology, cyber-attacks have also become more complex and challenging.

    No doubt, the data security awareness among internet users has grown multifold. If you are a website owner or a blogger, it becomes your prime responsibility to protect your user’s sensitive data and privacy from the evil intentions of cybercriminals.

    Here, SSL Certificate plays the most effective and crucial role in hardening the security of your website. So, let us first try to understand the very basics of SSL.

  • Syxsense Announces Powerful Automation, Including Patch Rollback, to its Comprehensive Linux Management Solution [Ed: Inflated claims and exaggerations in this marketing of proprietary software]

    The complexities of Linux patch remediation abound. Each Linux Distribution (Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, Centos and more) uses slightly different commands, patches are released on unpredictable schedules, and deployment requires in-depth scripting knowledge. Syxsense simplifies large scale Linux server management, without requiring manual scripting. Syxsense users can receive full endpoint intelligence of OS, hardware, and software inventory details, and know if patches are missing or security standards are compromised. Syxsense Cortex, the company's powerful visual workflow designer, now includes prebuilt actions to control pre- and post-patching necessities such as reboots or rollbacks while ensuring smooth, uninterrupted patch remediation and software deployment.

  • RansomEXX ransomware Linux encryptor may damage victims' files [Ed: So you should generally not get this thing installed on your system. This isn't about "Linux" but about something that can run on top of the GNU/Linux operating system.]

    ​Cybersecurity firm Profero has discovered that the RansomExx gang does not correctly lock Linux files during encryption, leading to potentially corrupted files.

    In a new report by Profero, Senior Incident Responder Brenton Morris says the RansomEXX decryptor was failing on various files encrypted by the threat actor's Linux Vmware ESXI encryptor for one the victims who paid the ransom.

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