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Proprietary Leftovers and DRM

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of October 2021 11:31:28 AM Filed under
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  • NSA warns of heightened wildcard TLS certificate risk

    “Wildcard certificates have legitimate uses, but can confer risk from poorly secured servers to other servers in the same certificate’s scope,” warned an alert (PDF) from the NSA this week.

    ALPACA is a technique used to exploit hardened web applications through non-HTTP services secured using the same or a similar Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate.

  • Security considerations emerge as Finland adopts Covid pass

    "Counterfeit apps are circulating. Restaurateurs and event organisers must ensure that they download the official Covid pass reader from a reliable app store. You have to watch out for criminal applications aimed at misusing personal information," Eronen explained.

    Black markets for fraudulent health passes have sprung up in many countries, including Finland. But is it actually possible to fake a Finnish QR-based Covid pass?

    Cyber security experts told Yle that while it's possible to fake something that looks like a Covid pass, a fraudulent QR code will not contain officials' digital signature, meaning THL's reader app is able to spot fraudsters.

  • A Post-Mortem in 5 Acts, of How Microsoft Privatized Open Source, killing JavaScript in the Process

    Then one day Microsoft came in and took control of the two core tools, which were the gateways to the whole Open Source community; npm and Github. I don’t think people saw this coming, and it’s clear that the majority of developers, even today, don’t realize what happened and how it will affect them very shortly.

    Once the take-over was complete, a massive propaganda onslaught began to fully convert the idealistic open source community towards the capitalistic Microsoft mantra. It’s a ‘secret’ war, with high-tech propaganda, which over time will silently destroy and remove independence, kill-off non-Microsoft-owned editors, tools, libraries, even JavaScript itself. All of this is inevitable because Microsoft is a for-profit corporation. It’s in its DNA to take over whole industries and turn them into profit-generating monopolies for its shareholders.

  • India 6th most affected country by ransomware: Google [iophk: Windows TCO]

    India 6th most affected country by ransomware: GoogleNew Delhi: A Google report that analysed more than 80 million ransomware samples submitted over the last year and a half has revealed that India is at the sixth place in the list of 140 countries most affected by ransomware.

  • Infosec expert Beaumont slams Microsoft over hosting malware 'for years'

    According to the security firm Palo Alto Networks, "BazarLoader (sometimes referred to as BazaLoader) is malware that provides backdoor access to an infected Windows host. After a client is infected, criminals use this backdoor access to send follow-up malware, scan the environment and exploit other vulnerable hosts on the network."

  • Netflix Projects ‘Squid Game’ Will Generate $891 Million in Value, According to Leaked Data

    Netflix paid $21.4 million for the nine-episode series, which premiered four weeks ago, and the company estimates “Squid Game” will deliver more than 40 times that — an estimated $891 million — in what it calls “impact value,” Bloomberg reported Saturday, citing confidential internal data that someone provided to the outlet.

  • Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
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