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Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here 21/08/2023 at 13:05 By Liam Proven Debian Bookworm without the controversial init – or the platform support, or the polish Devuan 5.0 “Daedalus” is derived from Debian 12 “Bookworm”, but with the controversial systemd init replaced by the user’s choice of sysvinit, openrc or runit.… This article […]

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Last rites for the UK’s Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it’s dead 21/08/2023 at 11:37 By Rupert Goodwins Snoopers Charter: Dead cows don’t snitch Opinion  Information wants to be free. This usefully ambiguous battle cry has been the mischievous slogan of hackers since early networking thinker Stuart Brand coined it in

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South Korea’s biggest mobile telco says 5G has failed to deliver on its promise 21/08/2023 at 09:48 By Laura Dobberstein Inflated expectations and an underdeveloped ecosystem have led to consumer disappointment SK Telecom, South Korea’s dominant mobile carrier and sibling of chipmaker SK hynix, has declared that 5G was over-hyped, has under-delivered, and has failed

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HiatusRAT Malware Resurfaces: Taiwan Firms and U.S. Military Under Attack 21/08/2023 at 09:01 By The threat actors behind the HiatusRAT malware have returned from their hiatus with a new wave of reconnaissance and targeting activity aimed at Taiwan-based organizations and a U.S. military procurement system. Besides recompiling malware samples for different architectures, the artifacts are

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G20 digital ministers sign up for Digital Public Infrastructure push 21/08/2023 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood They’ve also thought of the children, and the poor SMEs trying to stay secure The G20 bloc’s ministers responsible for the digital economy met in India on Saturday and proposed something interesting: a Framework for Systems of Digital Public

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Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe 21/08/2023 at 06:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec’s wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings Infosec in brief  Someone at Microsoft has some explaining to do after a messed up DNS record caused emails sent from Hotmail accounts

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Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud 21/08/2023 at 04:07 By Simon Sharwood First lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in катастрофа Russia’s rushed attempt to land a probe on the Moon has failed.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Interpol arrests 14 who allegedly scammed $40m from victims in ‘cyber surge’ 20/08/2023 at 10:25 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Cops credit security shops with an assist, tho it’s a drop in the ocean An Interpol-led operation arrested 14 suspects and identified 20,674 “suspicious” networks spanning 25 African countries that international cops have linked to more

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WoofLocker Toolkit Hides Malicious Codes in Images to Run Tech Support Scams 19/08/2023 at 14:51 By Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that’s engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging JavaScript embedded in compromised websites to

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Hallucinating ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons 19/08/2023 at 12:02 By Thomas Claburn Magical models less a replacement for human DMs and more a familiar for GMs Boffins have found a role for AI chatbots where habitual hallucination isn’t necessarily a liability.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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New Juniper Junos OS Flaws Expose Devices to Remote Attacks – Patch Now 19/08/2023 at 11:20 By Networking hardware company Juniper Networks has released an “out-of-cycle” security update to address multiple flaws in the J-Web component of Junos OS that could be combined to achieve remote code execution on susceptible installations. The four vulnerabilities have

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