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      Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" Operating System to Be Released on July 6th, 2019

      The Debian Project announced the proposed release date of their long-anticipated Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" .
      Work on the Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" operating system series started two years ago, since early July 2017

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        RAMBleed Side-Channel Attack Method Disclosed by Researchers

        Academic researchers this week published information about another side-channel attack method, called "RAMBleed," that can expose information from memory chips, including encryption key information.

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          Cable companies can save money now that DOCSIS 3.1 upgrade is mostly done

          Broadband investment happens in cycles—despite what the FCC tells you.
          Cable-company spending on network equipment is dropping as major providers like Comcast and Charter finish up their nationwide DOCSIS 3.1 rollouts.

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            Hackers behind dangerous oil and gas intrusions are probing US power gridst

            Group responsible for safety tampering Triconex malware has expanded, researchers say.
            Group responsible for safety tampering Triconex malware has expanded, researchers say.

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              Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

              Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
              A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.

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                scottalanmiller @hobbit666
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                @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

                Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
                A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.

                Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.

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                  dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

                  Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
                  A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.

                  Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.

                  I simply don't connect my TV to the internet. That's what my Roku is for. 😄

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                    Microsoft Releases Hyper-V Server 2019 After Long Delay

                    Microsoft on Monday announced that Hyper-V Server 2019 is now available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center page.

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                      Microsoft Deprecating Windows To Go

                      Microsoft plans to put an end to its Windows To Go product in the near future, according to a Friday support article.
                      Windows To Go is a portable hardware and software product.

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                        Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certificates safe from BGP hijacking attacks

                        Free service prevents BGP hijackers from fraudulently obtaining browser-trusted certs.
                        Content delivery network Cloudflare is introducing a free service designed to make it harder for browser-trusted HTTPS certificates to fall into the hands of bad guys who exploit Internet weaknesses at the time the certificates are issued.

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                          Google Calendar scam adds malicious links to your schedule
                          https://mashable.com/article/google-calendar-scam/

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                            scottalanmiller @mlnews
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                            @mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                            Microsoft Releases Hyper-V Server 2019 After Long Delay

                            Microsoft on Monday announced that Hyper-V Server 2019 is now available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center page.

                            Whoa, I'd almost forgotten about it!

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                              Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach

                              Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.

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                                AMD says its Ryzen 3000 isn’t just cheaper—it’s better

                                AMD's Travis Kirsch says there's no reason to buy an Intel CPU anymore.
                                AMD's new line of Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs will benefit from the same 7nm manufacturing process as the company's new Navi-powered GPUs.

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                                  Veeam Backup and Replication v10 Sneak peek: Cloud Tier Copy Mode
                                  https://www.veeam.com/blog/v10-sneak-peek-cloud-tier-copy-mode.html
                                  "Copy Mode is an additional policy you can set against the Capacity Tier extent of the Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR), which is backed by an Object Storage repository. Once selected, any backup files that are created as part of any standard backup or backup copy job will be copied to the Capacity Tier. This fully satisfies the 3-2-1 rule of backup, which asks for one full copy of your data off site."

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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                    Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach

                                    Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.

                                    LabCorp was affected too, 7.7M customer records exposed.
                                    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/06/labcorp-7-7m-consumers-hit-in-collections-firm-breach/

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                                      Dashrender @dafyre
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                                      @dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                      @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                      Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

                                      Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.
                                      A how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.

                                      Seems like they could have made that a simply thing to do, and to have automated it.

                                      I simply don't connect my TV to the internet. That's what my Roku is for. 😄

                                      Preach it man! I connected my TV so I could update it's firmware, then instantly disconnected it. TV manufacturers rarely update the software for this IOT devices (yep, your TV is an IOT device)... I'd much rather just replace a Roku or ChromeCast or Amazon TV, etc every few years than worry about my TV.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                        @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        TV manufacturers rarely update the software for this IOT devices (yep, your TV is an IOT device)... I'd much rather just replace a Roku or ChromeCast or Amazon TV, etc every few years than worry about my TV.

                                        Once you start calling that IoT, so is your laptop. IoT means everything now.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
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                                          A smart TV is like a smart phone.... a computer. So if we call smart TVs IoT, then we have to call smart phones IoT, what's the difference? And since we cant tell the difference between a smart phone and a laptop, or a laptop and a desktop, or a desktop and a server. Now servers are IoT.

                                          The problem is, things like Smart TVs have no logical barriers to make them IoT, they don't qualify as IoT the way IoT was created as a term to mean.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
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                                            If you read the descriptions and definitions, Smart TVs are definitely not IoT by any industry definition, meaning, or intention.

                                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things

                                            IoT refers to ordinary things connected to the Internet. There are loads of ways to describe this, but common sense should be enough. IoT mostly refers to sensor style devices, things that have always existed, but not can be controlled or monitored via a network. That's totally different than "network / compute centric devices" like laptops, desktops, servers, smart phones, smart TVs, etc. that are Internet / computer products at their core.

                                            IoT is about connecting non-compute / non-network objects. Thermostats, for example. They don't need the Internet to function, but you can use the Internet to monitor them. It is IoT because it is an everyday, non-compute object that has been connected to the Internet.

                                            A smart TV is absolutely the opposite. A Smart TV doesn't work if it is not on the Internet, it's function as a Smart TV is to stream network content.

                                            IoT requires that the primary function(s) of a device not be compute or network based, and that those abilities be ancillary.

                                            This has always, from day one, been the intent of the definition, and it has never varied.

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