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Submission + - SPAM: Ubiquiti files case against security blogger Krebs over 'false accusations'

Submitted by juul_advocate
juul_advocate writes: Ubiquiti, a maker of wireless LAN and WiFi routers and access points, has filed a case against former Washington Post employee Brian Krebs, who publishes a security blog, alleging that he falsely accused the company of "covering up" a cyberattack by intentionally misleading customers about "a so-called data breach and subsequent blackmail attempt in violation of US federal law and SEC regulations".
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Submission + - SPAM: Rehashed NYT yarn on Russian surveillance shot down by Nokia

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juul_advocate writes: Finnish telecommunications equipment provider Nokia has termed as "misleading" claims made by The New York Times about the company's role in Russia's lawful intercept system. The NYT story is a rehashing of a story published by the American tech website TechCrunch back in 2019, where the reporter, Zach Whittaker, said it offered "new insight into the scope and scale of the Russian surveillance system... and how Russian authorities gain access to the calls, messages and data of customers of the country’s largest phone provider, Mobile TeleSystems". A Nokia spokesperson said, in a detailed rebuttal, that the NYT had confirmed that the documents used as source material for the story were the same as those used by TechCrunch.
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Submission + - SPAM: Conflict, inflation lead to cuts in iPhone SE production: claim

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juul_advocate writes: Apple's output of the iPhone SE will drop by a fifth in the coming quarter, indicating that the Russia-Ukraine conflict and fears of inflation have affected demand for the device, a report claims. The Nikkei Asia website reported that the company had been telling a number of suppliers that production orders for the next three months would be lower by about two or three million units.
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Submission + - SPAM: Debian developer demoted, quits after two decades with project

Submitted by juul_advocate
juul_advocate writes: A developer who had more than two decades of service in the Debian GNU/Linux project was stripped of his status in December leading to him deciding to leave the project. Norbert Preining said in response to a query he decided that having been graded down to Debian maintainer was not something he wanted after all these years. He has now joined the Arch Linux project.
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What is not stated in this Bloomberg report is that the Internet 2.0 paper states right at the start: "This study has no insights into the origins of COVID-19, however we have come to the conclusion that based on the data analysed it suggests the virus was highly likely to be spreading virulently in Wuhan, China as early as the summer of 2019 and definitely by the early Autumn." Read the paper in full here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finternet2-0.com%2FPCR%2520... The data source is IMHO flaky: Database Source: Bidcenter.com.cn Bidcenter.com.cn is an aggregator website that holds Chinese government procurement data aggregated from government website data. It has been active online since June 2007. According to rankchart.org "bidcenter.com.cn" traffic estimate is about 27,211 unique visitors and 54,422 pageviews per day. Every unique visitor makes about 2 pageviews on average. Alexa Traffic Rank estimates that bidcenter.com.cn is ranked number 1,394 in the world. This so-called "open-source research method" which is a great name for searching on the Internet is generally full of holes.

Submission + - Norwegian firm shows how ransomware attack should be handled (itwire.com)

Submitted by juul_advocate
juul_advocate writes: Norwegian firm Volue Technology has demonstrated to the rest of the world how a ransomware attack should be handled after it was hit by the Windows Ryuk strain on 5 May. The company has set up a Web page with information about the attack and also links to frequent updates about the status of its systems. There was no obfuscation about the attack, none at all. The company said: "The ransomware attack on Volue Technology ('Powel') was caused by Ryuk, a type of malware usually known for targeting large, public-entity Microsoft Windows systems."

Submission + - Rust support in Linux may be possible by 5.14 release: Torvalds (itwire.com)

Submitted by juul_advocate
juul_advocate writes: The first patches for Rust support in the Linux kernel have been posted and the man behind the kernel says the fact that these are being discussed is much more important than a long post by Google about the language. Linus Torvalds told iTWire in response to queries that Rust support was "not there yet", adding that things were "getting to the point where maybe it might be mergeable for 5.14 or something like that".

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