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Proprietary Software and Security

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2023

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Microsoft exec admits the console wars are over: ‘We lost the worst generation to lose'

=> ↺ Microsoft exec admits the console wars are over: ‘We lost the worst generation to lose'

Azure API Management Vulnerabilities Allowed Unauthorized Access

=> ↺ Azure API Management Vulnerabilities Allowed Unauthorized Access

Three vulnerabilities in the Azure API Management service could be exploited to perform various types of malicious actions, cloud security company Ermetic reveals.

Victims’ reluctance to report ransomware stymies efforts to curb cyberattacks, say federal officials [iophk: Windows TCO]

=> ↺ Victims’ reluctance to report ransomware stymies efforts to curb cyberattacks, say federal officials

Two years after a coalition of cybersecurity companies, public sector organizations and federal agencies came together to form the Ransomware Task Force at the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology, these digital crimes remain an ongoing and serious problem with attacks seemingly increasingly severe.

Attacks on cities, universities and hospitals continue making headlines every week. In just the past few days, officials in Dallas have struggled to bring services back online after a ransomware attack there crippled services in one of the biggest cities in the country. And over the past year, ransomware gangs have appeared to become more brazen in their attempts to get their victims to pay extortion demands, even as some attacks appeared to subside potentially do to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

=> ↺ Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

Last month, sources said the Redmond-based biz was considering whether to stop bundling Teams with Office following complaints by several businesses, including Slack, that Microsoft had tied the messaging app to its market dominant productivity suite, forcing it on customers, locking out rivals and obfuscating the cost for users.

On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS

=> ↺ On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS

In the past few days, there have been uncertainties and concerns about the LUKS (“Linux Unified Key Setup”) disk encryption, which is widely used on Linux. We publish our assessment of this here.

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