Sunday, December 30, 2018

Not sure I would notice if the Denver Post wasn’t being delivered. I canceled my subscription years ago. (Practice for cyberwar?)
Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune papers across the U.S.
What first arose as a server outage was identified Saturday as a malware attack, which appears to have originated from outside the United States and hobbled computer systems and delayed weekend deliveries of the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the country.
Technology teams worked feverishly to quarantine the computer virus, but it spread through Tribune Publishing’s network and reinfected systems crucial to the news production and printing process. Multiple newspapers around the country were affected because they share a production platform.




Seems an awful long time to identify a bad card…
Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado
Brian Krebs, a veteran security journalist, posted a copy of a notice sent to CenturyLink’s “core customers” to his Twitter feed Saturday that blamed a card at its data center in Colorado for “propagating invalid frame packets across devices,” causing a series of issues that forced the company to reboot much of its networking equipment. It took CenturyLink more than two days from when it first identified the issues to sound the all-clear on Saturday morning, a period during which 911 services in several states including Washington were down or spotty.
… By the standards of modern cloud service providers, a two-day outage is an eternity. And it’s not clear how a single piece of equipment could cause an outage of such magnitude given the layers of redundancy that cloud providers build into their systems.
An FCC investigation into the outage might turn up some answers, unless CenturyLink is willing to post a moew detailed post-mortem on the outage, which is becoming a standard part of incident response.




So why are ‘innocent’ drones coming to Gatwick to die? Something fishy here.
Two drones found at Gatwick airport but still no arrests
Sussex police have found two drones at the perimeter of Gatwick airport but neither is the one responsible for last week’s runway closures and travel chaos, the force’s chief constable has revealed.




Probably cheap.
Wells Fargo is paying $575 million to states to settle fake account claims
Over the past two years, Wells Fargo has faced numerous lawsuits and government investigations stemming from a cascade of business scandals.
On Friday, it took a step to put one batch of accusations behind it.
The bank agreed to pay $575 million to all 50 states and the District of Columbia to settle civil charges related to the bank's fake-accounts scandals.
The agreement, which applies to charges brought by states' attorneys general, follows other fines and settlements Wells Fargo (WFC) has paid out since September 2016. That's when the bank admitted its employees opened as many as 3.5 million fake bank and credit card accounts without customers' knowledge.




Overreaction? If you can’t spend the day texting, perhaps you will vote?
Bangladesh shuts down mobile internet in lead up to election day
Bangladesh's telecoms regulator has ordered mobile operators to shut down high-speed mobile internet services until midnight Sunday, the day of a national election.
… "The decision has been taken to prevent rumours and propaganda surrounding the vote," Zakir Hussain Khan said.
As Bangladeshis get set for Sunday's parliamentary elections, there are fears that violence and intimidation could keep many voters away.
… A spokesman for the RAB, Bangladesh's elite security force, said on Saturday they had arrested eight men for spreading rumours on social media before the poll.




EU approved free software? I use some of them, perhaps I should use more.
In January, the EU starts running Bug Bounties on Free and Open Source Software
… In January the European Commission is launching 14 out of a total of 15 bug bounties on Free Software projects that the EU institutions rely on.
… Here is the list of Software projects and the bug bounties:


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