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Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2022

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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]

=> ↺ Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (curl, protobuf-c, and vim) and SUSE (gimp, java-1_8_0-openj9, libostree, openvswitch, python-bottle, python-Flask-Security-Too, and zabbix).

LockBit ransomware gang gets aggressive with triple-extortion tactic [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO, but the Microsofters leave that part out]

=> ↺ LockBit ransomware gang gets aggressive with triple-extortion tactic

LockBit ransomware gang announced that it is improving defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and working to take the operation to triple extortion level.

The LockBit Ransomware Gang Is Surprisingly Professional

=> ↺ The LockBit Ransomware Gang Is Surprisingly Professional

They’re expanding: locking people out of their data, publishing it if the victim doesn’t pay, and DDoSing their network as an additional incentive.

Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?

=> ↺ Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?

Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?

As is well-documented elsewhere, the US Government has chosen to apply financial sanctions to the Tornado Cash project.

This is not the first action the US Treasury has taken against use of a cryptocurrency mixer. It’s a clone of the sanctions applied to Blender.io in May which was clearly responding to money laundering by North Korea. That case was clearly an action against an entity.

Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0

=> ↺ Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0

As of December 1, 2022 the WordPress Security Team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0.

These versions of WordPress were first released eight or more years ago so the vast majority of WordPress installations run a more recent version of WordPress. The chances this will affect your site, or sites, is very small.

Delinea Server Suite Increases Privileged Security for the Largest and Newest Linux Distributions and Improves Integration with Windows Active Directory [Ed: AD and Windows actually reduce security rather than enhance it]

=> ↺ Delinea Server Suite Increases Privileged Security for the Largest and Newest Linux Distributions and Improves Integration with Windows Active Directory

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