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Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 04, 2022

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Cyber criminals misusing Aadhaar cards of labourers : The Tribune India

=> ↺ Cyber criminals misusing Aadhaar cards of labourers : The Tribune India

Aadhaar cards of Nepalese have been misused by cyber criminals in five to 10 per cent of the cyber frauds in the past two years. Investigations of cyber crime cases revealed that the miscreants used Aadhaar cards of Nepalese and labourers from Bihar and Jharkhand to procure SIMs and create online bank accounts by submitting their (Know Your Client) KYC details which were used to dupe people.

Attacks on Linux Servers Rose 75% Over Last Year, Warn Security Researchers [Ed: Of course today's Slashdot is amplifying anti-Linux FUD that helps the Windows "ecosystem" distract from the real culprit when it comes to ransomware]

=> ↺ Attacks on Linux Servers Rose 75% Over Last Year, Warn Security Researchers

Javier Martinez Canillas: Booting Fedora with sd-boot and Secure Boot enabled [Ed: This has nothing to do with security; it's about Microsoft control]

=> ↺ Javier Martinez Canillas: Booting Fedora with sd-boot and Secure Boot enabled

Every once in a while there is a discussion in the Fedora development list about replacing the default GRUB bootloader. That latest of these threads was "future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux" about a month ago, but searching for GRUB in the mailing list archives one can find many similar conversations.
One of the options to replace GRUB that is always mentioned is systemd-boot (sd-boot), since is quite minimal and enough for simple booting needs such as what is required for Fedora Workstation.
But currently this can’t be done without additional work, because shim only supports using GRUB as a second stage loader. There is a RFE: add support for multiple second stage loaders #472 filed for shim, but there wasn’t a conclusion on that issue about how to move forward.
This means that to use sd-boot instead of GRUB and keeping Secure Boot enabled, users need to create their own key pairs and enroll a cert with the public key into the UEFI firmware db database.

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