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Sam Varghese Apr 28, 2024

@GossiTheDog https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/centos-7-users-will-need-to-look-for-alternatives-as-eol-approaches.html

iTWire - CentOS 7 users will need to look for alternatives as EOL approaches

Enterprises which have been running CentOS 7 will have to look around for alternatives before the end of the Australian financial year as the distribution reaches its end-of-life on 30 June. That may pose issues for some, according to observers, though some of this same class say it will not be an i...

Sam Varghese Apr 28, 2024

@GossiTheDog https://itwire.com/open-source/almalinux-engineer-opens-path-for-migration-away-from-centos-6.html

iTWire - AlmaLinux engineer opens path for migration away from CentOS 6

The ELevate project at AlmaLinux, one of the main distributions that aim to provide a replacement for CentOS, has been expanded to provide support for those who wish to migrate from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. This would provide a route to migrate all the way from CentOS 6 up to AlmaLinux 9 without any da...

Sam Varghese Apr 26, 2024

@GossiTheDog Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

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Sam Varghese Apr 21, 2024

@GossiTheDog And how could you disbelieve the little chumps?

Sam Varghese Apr 21, 2024

@zachklipp GOOGLE MOTTOS: A HISTORY

1999: Don't Be Evil
2003: Try Your Hardest To Not Be Evil
2008: Make A Reasonable Effort To Avoid Being Evil
2013: What Is Evil, Really, When You Get Down To It, I Mean Really
2018: *just a series of high-pitched giggles*

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Sam Varghese Apr 3, 2024

@GossiTheDog Kevin, you are an eternal optimist if you think Microsoft will change in any way for the better.

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Sam Varghese Feb 8, 2024

@GossiTheDog https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/malwarebytes-shines-as-bogus-toothbrush-attack-tale-swallowed-by-most.html

iTWire - Malwarebytes shines as bogus toothbrush attack tale swallowed by most

Security firm Malwarebytes has been one of the few companies or individuals that refused to swallow a bogus report about three million smart toothbrushes being used in a DDoS attack. A large number of so-called tech publications simply regurgitated the report which first appeared in the Swiss newspa...

Sam Varghese Sep 21, 2023

@GossiTheDog And there is one more today: https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/china-resurrects-old-charges-of-nsa-breaking-into-huawei-servers.html

iTWire - China resurrects old charges of NSA breaking into Huawei servers

China has resurrected charges that go back more than a decade, accusing the NSA of hacking into the servers of telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from 2009 onwards. The charges were levelled by the Ministry of State Security in a post on its WeChat account, according to a report...

Sam Varghese Sep 21, 2023

@GossiTheDog This is really old shit: https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/chinese-pro-govt-paper-claims-nsa-linux-tool-nopen-found.html

iTWire - Chinese pro-govt paper claims NSA Linux tool NOPEN found

Details about a spying tool, claimed to be developed by the American NSA and able to reside in a Linux machine in order to steal information, has been reported by Global Times, a Chinese newspaper which has a pro-government tilt. The publication said the tool, which was said to have been used to con...

Sam Varghese Aug 12, 2023

@GossiTheDog Good one, mate. https://itwire.com/security/lost-in-translation-microsoft-forced-to-pull-update-due-to-language-issue.html

iTWire - Lost in translation: Microsoft forced to pull update due to language issue

Microsoft has been forced to pull an update it issued as part of its August Patch Tuesday after it was found that the patch in question, meant to fix a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, would not install properly on non-English systems. The company issued the patch, assigned CVE-2...