Miscellaneous Tech News
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Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers
Purple Fox, a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that gives it worm-like propagation capabilities
The ongoing campaign makes use of a "novel spreading technique via indiscriminate port scanning and exploitation of exposed SMB services with weak passwords and hashes," according to Guardicore researchers, who say the attacks have spiked by about 600% since May 2020. A total of 90,000 incidents have been spotted through the rest of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. First discovered in March 2018, Purple Fox is distributed in the form of malicious ".msi" payloads hosted on nearly 2,000 compromised Windows servers that, in turn, download and execute a component with rootkit capabilities, which enables the threat actors to hide the malware on the machine and make it easy to evade detection. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah I'm actually OK with this, since RH has obviously changed course with supplying the killing blow to CentOS them not funding other open source projects doesn't really matter to me.
It's the same argument that many are having about "don't use the community" edition if you're a business. Don't use RH if you care about FOSS.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah I'm actually OK with this, since RH has obviously changed course with supplying the killing blow to CentOS them not funding other open source projects doesn't really matter to me.
It's the same argument that many are having about "don't use the community" edition if you're a business. Don't use RH if you care about FOSS.
The CentOS disaster has nothing to do with this. Did you even bother to read more than the headline?
Or at least know who Stallman is if all you did was read the headline?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah I'm actually OK with this, since RH has obviously changed course with supplying the killing blow to CentOS them not funding other open source projects doesn't really matter to me.
It's the same argument that many are having about "don't use the community" edition if you're a business. Don't use RH if you care about FOSS.
The CentOS disaster has nothing to do with this. Did you even bother to read more than the headline?
Or at least know who Stallman is if all you did was read the headline?
I did read it and do know who he is. I get the cancel culture point of this as well.
My point is who cares what RH is doing as they clearly don't care about the rest of the FOSS community and instead care about the perception of this.
They specifically are the cancel culture arm of FOSS.
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'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
‘Fake' accounts claiming to be Amazon workers have been praising their working conditions on Twitter.
Votes are currently being counted in Alabama to decide whether Amazon warehouse workers will form a union. But last night, a series of anti-union tweets were sent from accounts claiming to be staff. Twitter has now suspended many of the accounts, and Amazon has confirmed at least one is fake. Most of the accounts were made just a few days ago, often with only a few tweets, all related to Amazon. “What bothers me most about unions is there’s no ability to opt out of dues,” one user under the handle @AmazonFCDarla tweeted, despite a state law in Alabama which prevents this. -
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Twenty year old Microsoft proxy war on open source rages on....
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/sco-linux-fud-returns-from-the-dead/
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Coincidence that comments are closed?
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LG Says It's Pulling Out of the Smartphone Business
LG's time in the smartphone business is officially coming to an end. After months of speculation, the South Korean electronics giant announced on Monday, April 5, it'll be shutting down that side of its business worldwide.
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After a decade of failure, LG officially quits the smartphone market
LG's mobile division calls it quits after 23 consecutive money-losing quarters.
After 12 years of being an Android OEM, LG has had enough. The Korean company announced late last night that it is officially quitting the smartphone market; it plans to close up shop on the entire business by July 31, 2021. The news doesn't come as much of a surprise, since LG has been preparing the public for this decision for some time. LG's mobile division has had 23 consecutive money-losing quarters, and its last profitable year was in 2014. In January 2020, LG Electronics' then-brand-new CEO Kwon Bong-seok promised that the troublesome division would be profitable by 2021. That message was apparently "profitability or bust" because by January 2021, LG was warning the public that it would have to make "a cold judgment" about the future of the mobile division. Local media reports claim that LG explored selling the division but couldn't find a buyer. -
To be honest, I kind of thought LG had already stopped making phones.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
To be honest, I kind of thought LG had already stopped making phones.
Me too.
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Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for people inside the country. Research published Tuesday says that the throttling slows traffic traveling between Twitter and Russia-based end users to a paltry 128kbps. Whereas past Internet censorship techniques used by Russia and other nation-states have relied on outright blocking, slowing traffic passing to and from a widely used Internet service is a relatively new technique that provides benefits for the censoring party.
