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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 14, 2023

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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]

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

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, lldpd, and zabbix), Fedora (ffmpeg, firefox, pdns-recursor, polkit, and thunderbird), Oracle (kernel and nodejs:14), Red Hat (nodejs:14, openvswitch2.17, openvswitch3.1, and pki-core:10.6), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (nextcloud-desktop), and Ubuntu (exo, linux, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, smarty3, and thunderbird).

Here’s what we know about the leader of the online group where secret documents were leaked. - The New York Times

=> ↺ Here’s what we know about the leader of the online group where secret documents were leaked. - The New York Times

Authorities say Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, posted sensitive materials in an online chat group.

Indonesian hackers threaten to attack 12,000 government websites

=> ↺ Indonesian hackers threaten to attack 12,000 government websites

A high alert has been sounded in view of possible attacks on as many as 12,000 Central and state government websites by Indonesian hackers. CERT-In issued an ‘Urgent- High Alert’ warning all Central and state agencies and departments to be alert and report any such incidents to them immediately.

With the alert, departments concerned, particularly those from defence, critical installations, vital establishments, all law enforcement agencies including the Central and state Intelligence wings have braced up to thwart the attacks.

CERT-In informed that it has been reported that websites of state and Central government are being potentially targeted. " A hacktivist Indonesia group is claiming to target 12,000 websites of India and the threat actors are launching DoS/DDoS attacks," the alert said.

Cyberattack cost Ontariol town $1.3M, including $290k in Bitcoin ransom | Northern News

=> ↺ Cyberattack cost Ontariol town $1.3M, including $290k in Bitcoin ransom | Northern News

A cyberattack on the Town of St. Marys that encrypted municipal systems and stole sensitive data cost the local government roughly $1.3 million, including a $290,000 Bitcoin ransom payment made to the hackers, officials have revealed.

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