Hello everyone. I’m hoping all of you have a wonderful holiday season. I’ll be working through most of the holidays if you need anything. Here are nine stories I’m watching right now.
Ⅰ - [
Security]> You never want to know this, but
here’s the research on negotiating with ransomware attackers.
Ⅱ - [
Economy]>
This video raises many interesting ideas about how we can get to a post-capitalist society many say we have to get to.
Ⅲ - [
Programming]> Microsoft has released the open-source
Power Fx programming language. It’s an interesting Excel-like coding style called ‘low code’.
Ⅳ - [
Crime]> Wild. A Hamilton, ON teenager,
managed to steal $36 million in cryptocurrency with a SIM swapping hack before being caught by the RCMP.
Ⅴ - [
Hardware]> Sony’s $9,000 Airspeak S1 drone is
now available. The drone can carry an entire full-frame mirrorless camera.
Ⅵ - [
Health]> It’s grim, but
researchers are finding that survivors of severe COVID-19 die within a year. The harsh emerging reality of the long-lasting effects of this virus.
Ⅷ - [
Security]> The Canadian govt has released a
ransomware playbook to help businesses in this fight.
Ⅸ - [
Security]> A huge
exploit in Apache’s Log4j 2 library is
causing havoc all over the Internet. Some of the payload being injected is ransomware and crypto mining/theft tools.
Microsoft. Huntress
has a tool to test for this vulnerability. The majority of attacks seem to be from
Russia. On docker, Linusserver containers are very commonly used, they have a
page for this.
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