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Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services Hotspot Shield, Zenmate and PureVPN
by Peter Reutemann 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

'A report by VpnMentor, a website which ranks VPN services, reveals several vulnerabilities in Hotspot Shield, Zenmate, and PureVPN -- all of which promise to provide privacy for their users. VpnMentor says it hired a team of three external ethical hackers to find vulnerabilities in three random popular VPNs. While one hacker wants to keep his identity private, the other two are known as File Descriptor and Paulos Yibelo. ZDNet: The research reveals bugs that can leak real-world IP addresses, which in some cases can identify individual users and determine a user's location. In the case of Hotspot Shield, three separate bugs in how the company's Chrome extension handles proxy auto-config scripts -- used to direct traffic to the right places -- leaked both IP and DNS addresses, which undermines the effectiveness of privacy and anonymity services. [...] AnchorFree, which makes Hotspot Shield, fixed the bugs, and noted that its mobile and desktop apps were not affected by the bugs. The researchers also reported similar IP leaking bugs to Zenmate and PureVPN.' -- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/1836218 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Firefox Gets Privacy Boost By Disabling Proximity and Ambient Light Sensor APIs
by Peter Reutemann 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

'Stating with Firefox 60 -- expected to be released in May 2018 -- websites won't be able to use Firefox to access data from sensors that provide proximity distances and ambient light information. >From a report: Firefox was allowing websites to access this data via the W3C Proximity and Ambient Light APIs. But at the start of the month, Mozilla engineers decided to disable access to these two APIs by default. The APIs won't be removed, but their status is now controlled by two Firefox flags that will ship disabled by default. This means users will have to manually enable the two flags before any website can use Firefox to extract proximity and ambient light data from the device's underlying sensors. The two flags will be available in Firefox's about:config settings page. The screenshot below shows the latest Firefox Nightly version, where the two flags are now disabled, while other sensor APIs are enabled.' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/12/1641205 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Microsoft Helps Get A Computer Recycler Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison For Offering Unapproved Recovery Disks
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180223/17294539295/microsoft-helps-get-…>: Someone dedicates his life to keeping landfills free of harmful material and the government wants to send him to prison. And it's all based on Microsoft's assertion it would have sold as many recovery disks as Lundgren created if only Lundgren hadn't created them. Ignored is the fact they never were distributed. Also ignored is the dubiousness of "lost sales" assertions, which are always 100% conjecture and always presented as a simplistic equation: "1 Piracy = 1 Lost Sale." But in this case, no sales were lost because no sales were replaced with bootleg boot disks. And "sales" must be a legal term of art. Microsoft allows anyone to download a recovery disk for free. But in court, these are suddenly worth money because infringement. To ensure someone gets tossed in jail for breaking the chain of planned obsolescence, Microsoft (and prosecutors) want the court to believe the existence of recovery disks that do nothing unless a person already has a licensed copy of Windows has somehow made the company $700,000 poorer. Given the limitations of burned recovery disks, it's impossible to see where infringement even comes into play. And yet here we are, watching prosecutorial discretion morph into putting someone's head on a platter over recovery disks any one of us could download hundreds of times from Microsoft's website without a single murmur about "lost sales" from the tech giant.

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Command Line Text Processing
by Peter Reutemann 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Useful tutorials: https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz

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SgxSpectre Attack Can Extract Data From Intel SGX Enclaves
by Peter Reutemann 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

'A new variation of the Spectre attack has been revealed this week by six scientists from the Ohio State University. Named SgxSpectre, researchers say this attack can extract information from Intel SGX enclaves. Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a feature of modern Intel processors that allow an application to create so-called enclaves. This enclave is a hardware-isolated section of the CPU's processing memory where applications can run operations that deal with extremely sensitive details, such as encryption keys, passwords, user data, and more... Neither Meltdown and Spectre were able to extract data from SGX enclaves. This is where SgxSpectre comes in. According to researchers, SgxSpectre works because of specific code patterns in software libraries that allow developers to implement SGX support into their apps. Vulnerable SGX development kits include the Intel SGX SDK, Rust-SGX, and Graphene-SGX. Academics say an attacker can leverage the repetitive code execution patterns that these SDKs introduce in SGX enclaves and watch for small variations of cache size. This allows for side-channel attacks that allow a threat actor to infer and slowly recover data from secure enclaves. Intel's recent Spectre patches don't necessarily help, as an attacker can work around these fixes. Intel says an update for the Intel SGX SDK that adds SgxSpectre mitigations will be released on March 16. Apps that implement Google's Retpoline anti-Spectre coding techniques are safe, researchers say.' -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/03/10/0446211 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Debian 9.4 Released
by Peter Reutemann 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

'The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian 9 (codename "stretch"). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems... Please note that the point release does not constitute a new version of Debian 9 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old "stretch" media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror. Phoronix adds that Debian 9.4 "has a new upstream Linux kernel release, various dependency fixes for some packages, an infinite loop fix in Glade, several CVE security fixes, a larger stack size for NTP, a new upstream release of their NVIDIA proprietary driver package, Python 3 dependency fixes, and other security fixes."' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/03/10/2120216 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Linux Developer McHardy Drops GPLv2 'Shake Down' Case
by Peter Reutemann 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

'Former Linux developer Patrick McHardy dropped his Gnu General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) violation case against Geniatech in a German court this week. ZDNet explains why some consider this a big "win": People who find violations typically turn to organizations such as the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), and the Software Freedom Law Center to approach violators. These organizations then try to convince violating companies to mend their ways and honor their GPLv2 legal requirements. Only as a last resort do they take companies to court to force them into compliance with the GPLv2. Patrick McHardy, however, after talking with SFC, dropped out from this diplomatic approach and has gone on his own way. Specifically, McHardy has been accused of seeking his own financial gain by approaching numerous companies in German courts. Geniatech claimed McHardy has sued companies for Linux GPLv2 violations in over 38 cases. In one, he'd requested a contractual penalty of €1.8 million. The company also claimed McHardy had already received over €2 million from his actions... In July 2016, the Netfilter developers suspended him from the core team. They received numerous allegations that he had been shaking down companies. McHardy refused to discuss these issues with them, and he refused to sign off on the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement. In October 2017, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, summed up the Linux kernel developers' position. Kroah-Hartman wrote: "McHardy has sought to enforce his copyright claims in secret and for large sums of money by threatening or engaging in litigation...." Had McHardy continued on his way, companies would have been more reluctant to use Linux code in their products for fear that a single, unprincipled developer could sue them and demand payment for his copyrighted contributions... McHardy now has to bear all legal costs for both sides of the case. In other words, when McHardy was faced with serious and costly opposition for the first time, he waved a white flag rather than face near certain defeat in the courts. ' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/03/10/2323242 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Well, It Got Them To The Moon And Back ...
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 10 Mar '18

10 Mar '18

... and only crashed twice‡. Source code <https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminary099/LUNAR_LAND…>, and note the comments on lines 179 and 180: # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE ‡The famous “1202 alarm” and “1201 alarm” incidents during the landing.

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Microsoft Throttles On-Prem Tech Donation Scheme For Nonprofits
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Cloud services will be cheaper, but actually buying premium versions of products will cost more <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/09/microsoft_charity_donation_shakeup/>. Clearly pushing people towards the rental option. Which means, when the corporate largesse runs out, the charity is left with nothing. Kind of like what has happened at the Enderley Community Centre, with all their Adobe CC products: when the funding ran out, the software stopped being usable.

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Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software
by Peter Reutemann 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

'Cisco released 22 security advisories yesterday, including two alerts for critical fixes, one of them for a hardcoded password that can give attackers full control over a vulnerable system. From a report: The hardcoded password issue affects Cisco's Prime Collaboration Provisioning (PCP), a software application that can be used for the remote installation and maintenance of other Cisco voice and video products. Cisco PCP is often installed on Linux servers. Cisco says that an attacker could exploit this vulnerability (CVE-2018-0141) by connecting to the affected system via Secure Shell (SSH) using the hardcoded password. The flaw can be exploited only by local attackers, and it also grants access to a low-privileged user account. In spite of this, Cisco has classified the issue as "critical." Although this vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Base score of 5.9, which is normally assigned a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of Medium, there are extenuating circumstances that allow an attacker to elevate privileges to root. For these reasons, the SIR has been set to Critical.' -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/03/08/145209 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Disabling Super-Key App-Menu Shortcut In KDE
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

Another new “feature” that KDE has acquired in the last few months is that you just have to press and release the Super (aka “Windows”†) modifier key, and the application menu will appear. This annoys me because I frequently lean on modifier keys while thinking about whether to use them, then release them when I change my mind. And then this damn menu pops up. As is usual with KDE, turning this off is pretty easy, but in this case it’s a little counterintuitive. If you right-click on the app-menu icon in the taskbar, you can choose the “Application Launcher Settings” item in the menu that appears (the name might vary a little bit depending on which particular app menu widget you have installed). In the settings dialog that comes up, you will see two panes to choose from, “Appearance” and “Keyboard shortcuts”. Naturally you go to “Keyboard shortcuts”, only to see an entry showing Alt-F1 as the trigger keystroke. So where do you control the use of the Super key? Never fear. Remove this Alt-F1 setting, and the special behaviour of the Super key disappears as well. †No, it doesn’t have a Windows logo on my Das Keyboard Pro 4. It’s imprinted with some kind of indescribable wing-like symbol.

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Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux?
by Peter Reutemann 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

'While there is no proof that anything nefarious is afoot, it does feel like maybe the Windows-maker is hijacking the Linux movement a bit by serving distros in its store. I hope there is no "embrace, extend, and extinguish" shenanigans going on. Just yesterday, we reported that Kali Linux was in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. That was big news, but it was not particularly significant in the grand scheme, as Kali is not very well known. Today, there is some undeniably huge news -- Debian is joining SUSE, Ubuntu, and Kali in the Microsoft Store. Should the Linux community be worried? My concern lately is that Microsoft could eventually try to make the concept of running a Linux distro natively a thing of the past. Whether or not that is the company's intention is unknown. The Windows maker gives no reason to suspect evil plans, other than past negative comments about Linux and open source. For instance, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once called Linux "cancer" -- seriously.' -- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/07/159249 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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British Military Spends More On Computers Than Weapons And Ammo
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

From <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/07/mod_spends_more_computers_than_weap…>: Spending on weapons and ammunition for the Armed Forces totalled £1.15bn in fiscal year 2016/17, whereas the MoD spent £1.45bn on computer services in the same period. For the four prior years, spending on computers consistently outpaced that for arms and ammo, with half a billion more being spent on computers than weapons in 2015/16. ... Only shipbuilding and repairing, aircraft and spacecraft, and "technical and financial services" spending outpaced the MoD's expenditure on computers. Even construction, at £1.20bn, lagged behind it.

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Google Launches First Android P Developer Preview
by Peter Reutemann 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

'Google today launched the first Android P developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com. From a report: The preview includes an updated SDK with system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and the official Android Emulator. Unlike last year, there is no emulator for testing Android Wear on Android P. [...] Today's preview includes the following new APIs and features (but you can expect much more; this is just the first preview, after all): Display cutout support; HDR VP9 Video, HEIF image compression, and Media APIs; HEIF (heic) images encoding has been added to the platform; multi-camera API; ImageDecoder for bitmaps and drawables; Improved messaging notifications; Data cost sensitivity in JobScheduler; indoor positioning with Wi-Fi RTT: Platform support for the IEEE 802.11mc WiFi protocol -- also known as WiFi Round-Trip-Time (RTT) -- lets you take advantage of indoor positioning in your apps.' -- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/07/1811201 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Turning Off Software Update Notifications In KDE
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Seems the latest version of KDE includes an automatic notifier when there are system updates available. This is great for, shall we say, “normal” users. But I run Debian Unstable. Which means I will be nagged for more updates within a matter of hours after doing a system upgrade, and things will rapidly go downhill from there. So naturally I would rather turn these off completely. The obvious place to find this setting would be in the “Notifications” panel in the System Settings. Unfortunately, the “Event source:” menu lists about three dozen different sources of notification events, and it isn’t obvious (at least, it wasn’t to me) which one handles software updates. The answer is, it’s the one called “Discover”. You will see only one event in its list: “Updates Are Available”. Simply uncheck all the forms of notification for this event. Hmm, I wonder if this panel couldn’t do with a search box...?

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No Safe Haven For Victims Of Digital Abuse
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Blocking messages from online abusers -- and even changing your identity to get away from them -- may work fine against someone on the other side of the world. But what if the abuser is your close partner? <https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/apps-cant-stop-exes-who-use-technology…>: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access—delete your insecure account, open a new one, change your password. But in abusive romantic relationships, disconnection can be extremely fraught. For one, it can put the victim at risk of physical harm: If abusers expect digital access and that access is suddenly closed off, it can lead them to become more violent or intrusive in other ways. It may seem cathartic to delete abusive material, like alarming text messages—but if you don’t preserve that kind of evidence, it can make prosecution more difficult. And closing some kinds of accounts, like social networks, to hide from a determined abuser can cut off social support that survivors desperately need. (Found from <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/intimate_partne.html>)

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Libre Content Creation: 2018 In Perspective
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Nice roundup <http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/2018-in-perspective> from Alexandre Prokoudine on where a bunch of Free graphics/audio/video projects have gone and where they are likely to go over the coming year. Gimp 2.10 continues to be delayed, but in return the list of goodies promised continues to lengthen: The team initially intended v2.10 to be more or less a GEGL-based upgrade of v2.8 plus high bit depth precision support. Needless to say, the plan hasn't exactly worked: there will be a lot more than that. In fact, even now, when only critical bugs are supposed to be worked on, the team cannot resist making improvements that aren't blocking the release. Another interesting one is an initiative in Germany to come up with a nonproprietary alternative to common colour specifications like Pantone: In December 2017, FreieFarbe e.V. announced that their initiative for „Open Colour Communication“ standard was supported by DIN and will become a DIN SPEC (which is the first step towards DIN Norm). It is claimed that DIN intends to turn this into an international standard via ISO later. The FreieFarbe / FreeColour initiative aims to provide an open alternative to Pantone, HKS, and other proprietary colour systems. They argue that unlike Pantone and some other proprietary manufacturers like RAL, FreiFarbe has an actual color system. On the music-production front, Zyn-Fusion seems to be developing as the successor to the venerable ZynAddSubFX, while VCV Rack is the candidate for the ultimate software modular synth, complete with rat’s nest of (virtual) connecting wires. (I’ve seen a demo or two on YouTube.)

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Re: [wlug] FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct
by William Mckee 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

virtual contact! none of that. more sjw bs. cheers, william. On 21/02/2018 7:08 pm, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:25:31 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted: > '> Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual > descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a > request to stop.' From <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/21/freebsd_code_of_ conduct_controversy/>: OpenSUSE board member and YouTuber Bryan Lunduke has used his YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxNdQJSlg54> to ask if FreeBSD also wants to regulate virtual high fives or fist bumps. Lunduke's video is a rather more polite expression of comments found in corners of the Internet where gender politics is derided and debate is sometimes infamously uncivil. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60
by Peter Reutemann 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

'The most recent version of Firefox Nightly, currently at version 60, comes with changes to Firefox's cookie management. Mozilla merged cookie settings with site data in the web browser which impacts how you configure and manage cookie options. If you run Firefox 59 or earlier, you can load about:preferences#privacy to manage privacy related settings in Firefox. If you set the history to "use custom settings for history" or "remember history", you get an option manage cookie settings and to remove individual cookies from Firefox. A click on the link or button opens a new browser window in which all set cookies are listed. You can use it to find set cookies, look up information, remove selected or all cookies. Mozilla engineers changed this in recent versions of Firefox 60 (currently on the Nightly channel).' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/02/26/1853203 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Firefox - turning off processes per tab
by Peter Reutemann 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Hi everyone In case you don't like Firefox's new feature of separating tabs into separate processes (far more resource hungry), change the following setting in "about:config" to "false": browser.tabs.remote.auto Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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OpenBSD Releases Meltdown Patch
by Peter Reutemann 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

'OpenBSD's Meltdown patch has landed, in the form of a Version 11 code update that separates user memory pages from the kernel's -- pretty much the same approach as was taken in the Linux kernel. From a report: A few days after the Meltdown/Spectre bugs emerged in January, OpenBSD's Phillip Guenther responded to user concerns with a post saying the operating system's developers were working out what to do. Now he's revealed the approach used to fix the free OS: "When a syscall, trap, or interrupt takes a CPU from userspace to kernel the trampoline code switches page tables, switches stacks to the thread's real kernel stack, then copies over the necessary bits from the trampoline stack. On return to userspace the opposite occurs: recreate the iretq frame on the trampoline stack, switch stack, switch page tables, and return to userspace." That explanation is somewhat obscure to non-developers, but there's a more readable discussion of what the project's developers had in mind from January, here.' -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/02/23/1519245 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall
by Peter Reutemann 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

'A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. Changing ownership of these files either crashes the system, various local apps, or prevents the system from booting, according to reports from users who installed npm v5.7.0. -- the buggy npm update. Users who installed this update -- mostly developers and software engineers -- will likely have to reinstall their system from scratch or restore from a previous system image.' -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/02/22/2034213 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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Ricoh MP C3003 or similar wanted
by Gregory Machin 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Hi, This is very off topic. I'm working on script (currently powershell, my port to python)to manage (backup and restore) the addess book on Ricoh printers. The idea is to be able to manage large number of printers address books. I'm looking for a printer I can use for my dev work. It I don't care if the printer or scanner are faulty just need to brains to be functional. If anyone has such I could have or loan for a couple of months, that would be great. If not all good. Many thanks G

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Google To Cease “Offshoring” Local Revenue
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

Wonder of wonders <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11999548>: Government moves to crack down on tax avoidance by multinational firms are already bearing fruit, with Google telling Parliament it will no longer funnel New Zealand revenues via low-tax jurisdictions such as Singapore. ... The practice saw Google's New Zealand subsidiary provide only services as part of the sales process - paying just $356,000 in tax on only $12.2m in revenue. Estimates of Google's sales revenue from New Zealand range in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

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uTorrent Client Affected by Some Pretty Severe Security Flaws
by Peter Reutemann 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

'A Google security researcher has found multiple security flaws affecting the uTorrent web and desktop client that allow an attacker to infect a victim with malware or collect data on the users' past downloads, reports BleepingComputer. From the report: The vulnerabilities have been discovered by Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy, and they impact uTorrent Web, a new web-based version of the uTorrent BitTorrent client, and uTorrent Classic, the old uTorrent client that most people know. Ormandy says that both uTorrent clients are exposing an RPC server -- on port 10000 (uTorrent Classic) and 19575 (uTorrent Web). The expert says that attackers can hide commands inside web pages that interact with this open RPC server. The attacker only needs to trick a user with a vulnerable uTorrent client to access a malicious web page. Furthermore, the uTorrent clients are also vulnerable to DNS rebinding -- a vulnerability that allows the attacker to legitimize his requests to the RPC server.' -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/02/21/180206 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

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